{"id":222686,"date":"2019-04-25T11:03:30","date_gmt":"2019-04-25T06:03:30","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/propakistani.pk\/lens\/?p=222686"},"modified":"2019-04-25T11:03:30","modified_gmt":"2019-04-25T06:03:30","slug":"omar-shahid-hamids-new-book-is-about-match-fixing-in-womens-cricket","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/propakistani.pk\/lens\/omar-shahid-hamids-new-book-is-about-match-fixing-in-womens-cricket\/","title":{"rendered":"Omar Shahid Hamid&#8217;s New Book is About Match-Fixing in Women&#8217;s Cricket"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Cop-cum-author Omar Shahid Hamid just teased his new novel <em><strong>The Fix<\/strong><\/em>. The novel will tackle match-fixing and women&#8217;s cricket.<\/p>\n<p>The author teased that his next literary work is a novel titled <strong><em>The Fix <\/em><\/strong>in a tweet:<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"550\" data-dnt=\"true\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">Coming Soon <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/hashtag\/TheFix?src=hash&amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">#TheFix<\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/4nCMWehqf7\">pic.twitter.com\/4nCMWehqf7<\/a><\/p>\n<p>&mdash; Omar Shahid Hamid (@omarshamid) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/omarshamid\/status\/1121029305943896066?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">April 24, 2019<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><strong>The novel has already won an award at the Karachi Literary Festival.<\/strong><\/p>\n<hr \/>\n<p style=\"text-align: center; letter-spacing: 5px; font-size: 16px; margin: 0;\">ALSO READ<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><a style=\"font-size: 20px; font-weight: 600; font-family: Raleway ,sans-serif;\" href=\"https:\/\/propakistani.pk\/lens\/celebrated-playwright-umera-ahmed-is-launching-her-new-novel-alif-this-week\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Celebrated Playwright Umera Ahmed Is Launching Her New Novel &#8220;Alif&#8221; This Week<\/a><\/p>\n<hr \/>\n<h3>A riveting novel that focuses on match-fixing in women&#8217;s cricket<\/h3>\n<p>Based on the excerpt from the book, we know that the novel will particularly focus on match-fixing in women&#8217;s cricket.<\/p>\n<p>The plot will follow a female player Saman Khan as she climbs the ranks of the national team to become the captain of the women&#8217;s team.<\/p>\n<p>In the end, whether or not her team manages to win the World Cup has nothing to do with her efforts and everything to do with a dreaded match-fixing syndicate.<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>&#8220;Fate intervenes, and the team&#8217;s success attracts the great corruptors of the sport, the match-fixing syndicates that captured the men&#8217;s team two decades ago. Will Saman and her girls succeed where the men failed, or will history repeat itself? &#8220;<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<hr \/>\n<p style=\"text-align: center; letter-spacing: 5px; font-size: 16px; margin: 0;\">ALSO READ<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><a style=\"font-size: 20px; font-weight: 600; font-family: Raleway ,sans-serif;\" href=\"https:\/\/propakistani.pk\/lens\/karachi-crime-novel-the-party-worker-is-coming-to-netflix\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Karachi Crime Novel &#8216;The Party Worker&#8217; is Coming to Netflix<\/a><\/p>\n<hr \/>\n<p>Omar Shahid Hamid is the best-selling author of <em><strong>The Party Worker <\/strong><\/em>and<em><strong> The Prisoner<\/strong><\/em>. The former policeman turned author is known for his realistic crime thrillers.<\/p>\n<p>Recently he announced that his book <strong><em>The Party Worker<\/em><\/strong> was being adapted into a Netflix series.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Cop-cum-author Omar Shahid Hamid just teased his new novel The Fix. The novel will tackle match-fixing and women&#8217;s cricket. The author teased that his next literary work is a novel titled The Fix in a tweet: Coming Soon #TheFix pic.twitter.com\/4nCMWehqf7 &mdash; Omar Shahid Hamid (@omarshamid) April 24, 2019 The novel has already won an award at the Karachi Literary Festival. [&hellip;] <a class=\"g1-link g1-link-more\" href=\"https:\/\/propakistani.pk\/lens\/omar-shahid-hamids-new-book-is-about-match-fixing-in-womens-cricket\/\">More<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":53,"featured_media":222692,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1296,2199,1291],"tags":[],"adace-sponsor":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-222686","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-books","8":"category-featured","9":"category-social-media"},"wps_subtitle":"The match-fixing syndicates that captured the men's team two decades ago!","img_urls":{"thumbnail":["https:\/\/propakistani.pk\/lens\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/04\/Omar-Shahid-Hamid-The-Fix-364x205.jpg",364,205,true],"medium":["https:\/\/propakistani.pk\/lens\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/04\/Omar-Shahid-Hamid-The-Fix-758x424.jpg",758,424,true],"full":["https:\/\/propakistani.pk\/lens\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/04\/Omar-Shahid-Hamid-The-Fix.jpg",1000,560,false]},"author_name":"Ummara Sheraz","categories_name":["Books","Featured","Social Media"],"title_text":"Omar Shahid Hamid\u2019s New Book is About Match-Fixing in Women\u2019s Cricket","related_stories":"https:\/\/propakistani.pk\/lens\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts?filter&per_page=4&categories=1296,2199,1291&exclude=222686","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/propakistani.pk\/lens\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/222686","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/propakistani.pk\/lens\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/propakistani.pk\/lens\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/propakistani.pk\/lens\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/53"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/propakistani.pk\/lens\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=222686"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/propakistani.pk\/lens\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/222686\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/propakistani.pk\/lens\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/222692"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/propakistani.pk\/lens\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=222686"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/propakistani.pk\/lens\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=222686"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/propakistani.pk\/lens\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=222686"},{"taxonomy":"adace-sponsor","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/propakistani.pk\/lens\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/adace-sponsor?post=222686"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}