{"id":111092,"date":"2022-12-29T16:56:07","date_gmt":"2022-12-29T11:56:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/tns.world\/?p=111092"},"modified":"2022-12-29T16:56:07","modified_gmt":"2022-12-29T11:56:07","slug":"new-zealand-building-healthy-lead-against-pakistan-in-first-test","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/tns.world\/?p=111092","title":{"rendered":"New Zealand building healthy lead against Pakistan in first Test"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Kane Williamson and Ish Sodhi defied Pakistan bowlers Thursday as New Zealand reached 519-6 at lunch on the fourth day of the first Test in Karachi.<\/p>\n<p>The home team&#8217;s efforts for early wickets went in vain as Williamson took his overnight score of 105 to 137, and Sodhi was able company on 41.<\/p>\n<p>Resuming on 440-6, New Zealand now lead by 81 runs and are in a good position to take the first Test of the two-match series.<\/p>\n<p>Pakistan took the third new ball with the total on 493-6, but neither the fast bowlers nor the spin duo of Nauman Ali and Abrar Ahmed could break the partnership, which has so far yielded 78 runs.<br \/>\nWilliamson reversed a leg-before decision against him from Pakistan umpire Aleem Dar on 116 after television replays showed Nauman&#8217;s delivery pitched outside the leg stump.<\/p>\n<p>He has so far hit 12 boundaries in his 25th Test century, anchoring the innings after openers Tom Latham (113) and Devon Conway (92) got big scores on Wednesday.<\/p>\n<p>Ahmed is Pakistan&#8217;s best bowler with 3-172, while Nauman has 2-154.<\/p>\n<p>New Zealand are playing their first Test series in Pakistan in 20 years.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Kane Williamson and Ish Sodhi defied Pakistan bowlers Thursday as New Zealand reached 519-6 at lunch on the fourth day of the first Test in Karachi. The home team&#8217;s efforts for early wickets went in vain as Williamson took his overnight score of 105 to 137, and Sodhi was able company on 41. Resuming on [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":111093,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[20],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-111092","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/tns.world\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/111092","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=111092"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/tns.world\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/111092\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":111094,"href":"https:\/\/tns.world\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/111092\/revisions\/111094"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tns.world\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/111093"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/tns.world\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=111092"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tns.world\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=111092"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tns.world\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=111092"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}