{"id":861,"date":"2021-07-10T03:39:49","date_gmt":"2021-07-10T03:39:49","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/cricketnirvana.com\/?p=861"},"modified":"2023-02-18T03:42:17","modified_gmt":"2023-02-18T03:42:17","slug":"taibu-quits-cricket-for-god","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/cricketnirvana.com\/content_subdomain\/news\/international\/2012\/july\/news-20120710-13.html","title":{"rendered":"Taibu Quits Cricket For God"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/cricketnirvana.com\/\">Tatenda Taibu<\/a>, the former Zimbabwe captain and wicket-keeper batsman, has announced his retirement from the sport to devote his life to the church.<\/p>\n<p>The 29-year-old batsman and wicket-keeper made his international debut in 2001, and became team captain three years later &#8211; the youngest in the country&#8217;s history. Taibu played 28 Tests and 150 ODIs for Zimbabwe and has quit aged only 29, usually a cricketer&#8217;s prime.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;I just feel that my true calling now lies in doing the Lord&#8217;s work and although I am fortunate and proud to have played for my country, the time has come for me to put my entire focus on that part of my life,&#8221; said Taibu in a statement issued by Zimbabwe Cricket.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Tatenda Taibu, the former Zimbabwe captain and wicket-keeper batsman, has announced his retirement from the sport to devote his life to the church&#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":1,"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\/861"}],"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=861"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/cricketnirvana.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/861\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":862,"href":"https:\/\/cricketnirvana.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/861\/revisions\/862"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/cricketnirvana.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=861"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cricketnirvana.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=861"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cricketnirvana.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=861"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}