{"id":26155,"date":"2021-05-15T14:29:21","date_gmt":"2021-05-15T14:29:21","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.banglanewsus.com\/english\/?p=26155"},"modified":"2021-05-15T14:29:21","modified_gmt":"2021-05-15T14:29:21","slug":"payne-wants-to-hand-over-the-leadership-to-smith","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.banglanewsus.com\/english\/2021\/05\/15\/payne-wants-to-hand-over-the-leadership-to-smith\/","title":{"rendered":"Payne wants to hand over the leadership to Smith"},"content":{"rendered":"<header class=\"entry-header pos-rel \">\n<div class=\"read-details marg-btm-lr\">\n<div class=\"entry-header-details\"><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/header>\n<div class=\"color-pad\">\n<div class=\"entry-content read-details color-tp-pad no-color-pad\">\n<p><strong>Sports Desk:<\/strong>\u00a0Steven Smith made a name for himself as the captain of Australia. When he was in his infancy, just then, in 2018, the ball tampering scandal took place! Smith-Warner was banned for a year after being caught red-handed. Cameron Bancroft was given a nine-month ban. Smith-Warner has returned to cricket after overcoming the ban. Since then, speculation has been rife that Smith will be made captain.<\/p>\n<p>After Smith was removed from the lead at that time, Tim Payne took charge of the Australian team in white. Smith returned to cricket in 2019 after overcoming the ban, but did not get the captaincy. But Payne wants to see Smith as captain again.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cSmith is one of the best captains in Australia,\u201d he said. That\u2019s what his statistics say. So I am in favor of making Smith the captain in the future. If he is made the captain before the next Ashes, it will be good for the team. \u2018<\/p>\n<p>In a recent interview with the media, Smith, one of the best batsmen of the time, said: \u201cI would love to have the opportunity to lead Australia again. If Cricket Australia thinks this is the best time to give me responsibility, then I have no problem. I\u2019m interested. \u2019Then Aussie coach Justin Langer said\u2018 there are no vacancies \u2019. Then, of course, spinner Nathan Lin wanted to see Smith back as captain. Let\u2019s see if Smith really returns to the lead.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Sports Desk:&nbsp;Steven Smith made a name for himself as the captain of Australia. When he was in his infancy, just then, in 2018, the ball tampering scandal took place! Smith-Warner was banned for a year after being caught red-handed. Cameron Bancroft was given a nine-month ban. Smith-Warner has returned to cricket after overcoming the ban. Since then, speculation has been rife that Smith will be made captain. After Smith was removed from the lead at that time, Tim Payne took charge of the Australian team in white. Smith returned to<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":6,"featured_media":26156,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[7],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.banglanewsus.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/26155"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.banglanewsus.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.banglanewsus.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.banglanewsus.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/6"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.banglanewsus.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=26155"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.banglanewsus.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/26155\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":26157,"href":"https:\/\/www.banglanewsus.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/26155\/revisions\/26157"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.banglanewsus.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/26156"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.banglanewsus.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=26155"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.banglanewsus.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=26155"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.banglanewsus.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=26155"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}