{"id":109014,"date":"2022-12-02T00:56:08","date_gmt":"2022-12-01T19:56:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/tns.world\/?p=109014"},"modified":"2022-12-02T00:56:08","modified_gmt":"2022-12-01T19:56:08","slug":"president-alvi-attends-historic-rawalpindi-test-match-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/tns.world\/?p=109014","title":{"rendered":"President Alvi attends historic Rawalpindi Test Match"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>RAWALPINDI: President of Pakistan Dr. Arif Alvi witnessed the opening day play of the historic Rawalpindi Test match on Thursday as it marked England\u2019s Test side\u2019s return to Pakistan after a long gap of 17 years.<\/p>\n<p>England, who last played a Test series on Pakistani home soil back in 2005, has been playing its first-ever Test at Rawalpindi Cricket Stadium.<\/p>\n<p>President Dr. Arif Alvi celebrated this historic milestone for Pakistan cricket as he reached the stadium to attend the first day of the opening Test match between the two sides.<br \/>\nPakistan Cricket Board Chairman Ramiz Raja and others welcomed the Dr. Arif Alvi on his arrival.<\/p>\n<p>British High Commissioner Christian Turner also witnessed the first day of Pakistan vs England at Rawalpindi.<\/p>\n<p>On the opening day of the first Test, England scored record 506\/4 \u2013 the highest by any team on the first day of a Test match \u2013 as they dominated Pakistan\u2019s bowling attack with help of four centuries.<\/p>\n<p>English players Zak Crawley, Ben Duckett, Ollie Pope and Harry Brook blasted phenomenal hundreds each to steer the visiting side to a commanding position\u00a0in\u00a0the\u00a0game.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>RAWALPINDI: President of Pakistan Dr. Arif Alvi witnessed the opening day play of the historic Rawalpindi Test match on Thursday as it marked England\u2019s Test side\u2019s return to Pakistan after a long gap of 17 years. England, who last played a Test series on Pakistani home soil back in 2005, has been playing its first-ever [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":109015,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[23,51,20],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-109014","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-national","category-rawalpindi","category-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/tns.world\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/109014","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/tns.world\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/tns.world\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tns.world\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tns.world\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=109014"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/tns.world\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/109014\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":109016,"href":"https:\/\/tns.world\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/109014\/revisions\/109016"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tns.world\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/109015"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/tns.world\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=109014"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tns.world\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=109014"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tns.world\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=109014"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}