{"id":690,"date":"2009-07-29T12:18:28","date_gmt":"2009-07-29T12:18:28","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/cricketnirvana.com\/?p=690"},"modified":"2023-02-08T10:45:21","modified_gmt":"2023-02-08T10:45:21","slug":"yusuf-pathan-denies-remarks-on-irfan-selection","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/cricketnirvana.com\/news\/international\/2009\/july\/news-20090729-520.html","title":{"rendered":"Yusuf Pathan denies remarks on Irfan selection"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>New Delhi:<\/strong> All-rounder Yusuf Pathan today denied criticising national selectors for omitting his brother Irfan from India&#8217;s Champions Trophy squad, dubbing the reports as &#8220;totally baseless and wrong&#8221;.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;I did not make any comment on selection matter or about Irfan&#8217;s exclusion and the remarks attributed to me are totally baseless and wrong,&#8221; the towering right-hander said in a statement.<\/p>\n<p>Yusuf was earlier quoted in the media as saying that Irfan merited a place in the side purely on the basis of his performance and that biased selectors had kept the left-arm seamer out of the squad for reasons other than cricket.<\/p>\n<p>Yusuf insisted he did not say anything of that sort in yesterday&#8217;s programme in Ahmedabad after the all-rounder, along with his Rajasthan Royals teammate Ravindra Jadeja, joined Reliance Industries Ltd whom they will represent in the BCCI corporate cricket tournament.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>New Delhi: All-rounder Yusuf Pathan today denied criticising national selectors for omitting his brother Irfan from India&#8217;s Champions Trophy squad, dubbing the reports&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_kad_blocks_custom_css":"","_kad_blocks_head_custom_js":"","_kad_blocks_body_custom_js":"","_kad_blocks_footer_custom_js":"","_kad_post_transparent":"default","_kad_post_title":"default","_kad_post_layout":"default","_kad_post_sidebar_id":"","_kad_post_content_style":"default","_kad_post_vertical_padding":"default","_kad_post_feature":"","_kad_post_feature_position":"","_kad_post_header":false,"_kad_post_footer":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[],"featured_image_src_large":false,"author_info":{"display_name":"cricketnirvana","author_link":"https:\/\/cricketnirvana.com\/author\/cricketnirvana\/"},"comment_info":0,"category_info":[{"term_id":2,"name":"News","slug":"news","term_group":0,"term_taxonomy_id":2,"taxonomy":"category","description":"","parent":0,"count":160,"filter":"raw","cat_ID":2,"category_count":160,"category_description":"","cat_name":"News","category_nicename":"news","category_parent":0}],"tag_info":false,"taxonomy_info":{"category":[{"value":2,"label":"News"}]},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/cricketnirvana.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/690"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/cricketnirvana.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/cricketnirvana.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cricketnirvana.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cricketnirvana.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=690"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/cricketnirvana.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/690\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":691,"href":"https:\/\/cricketnirvana.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/690\/revisions\/691"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/cricketnirvana.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=690"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cricketnirvana.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=690"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cricketnirvana.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=690"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}