{"id":3043,"date":"2016-10-13T13:27:27","date_gmt":"2016-10-13T13:27:27","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.banglanewsus.com\/english\/?p=3043"},"modified":"2016-10-13T13:27:27","modified_gmt":"2016-10-13T13:27:27","slug":"real-challenge-begins-in-new-zealand-mashrafe","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.banglanewsus.com\/english\/2016\/10\/13\/real-challenge-begins-in-new-zealand-mashrafe\/","title":{"rendered":"Real challenge begins in New Zealand: Mashrafe"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Bangladeshi skipper Mashrafe bin Mortaza believes that the real challenge for his team will be beginning in New Zealand in December.<span id=\"more-308363\"><\/span><\/p>\n<p>This international bilateral series will be the first one for the team after Mashrafe assumed captaincy.<\/p>\n<p>Bangladesh\u00a0\u00a0will be visiting New Zealand in December for a bilateral series, following which in February, it will be visiting India for a test series.<\/p>\n<p>It will then visit Sri Lanka for a full tour and then visit Ireland in May for a trilateral series. In June, the team will be in England for the Champion\u2019s Trophy.<\/p>\n<p>After a winning streak of six, Bangladesh lost to England 2-1 in a home series for the first time after Mashrafe became captain.<\/p>\n<p>Mashrafe, unabated by the loss, says he\u2019s excited to see how the team performs in conditions other than the home ground.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe have been nearly 90 percent successful in the country,\u201d the skipper said, adding, \u201cA new kind of challenge now awaits us in international grounds.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIt will be good for the team if we start afresh from the matches\u00a0\u00a0in New Zealand,\u201d Mashrafe said.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIt is always painful to be on the losing side, but that is just part of the game,\u201d he added.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Bangladeshi skipper Mashrafe bin Mortaza believes that the real challenge for his team will be beginning in New Zealand in December. This international bilateral series will be the first one for the team after Mashrafe assumed captaincy. Bangladesh&nbsp;&nbsp;will be visiting New Zealand in December for a bilateral series, following which in February, it will be visiting India for a test series. It will then visit Sri Lanka for a full tour and then visit Ireland in May for a trilateral series. In June, the team will be in England for<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":3044,"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\/3043"}],"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\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.banglanewsus.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3043"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.banglanewsus.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3043\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3045,"href":"https:\/\/www.banglanewsus.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3043\/revisions\/3045"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.banglanewsus.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/3044"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.banglanewsus.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3043"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.banglanewsus.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3043"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.banglanewsus.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3043"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}