{"id":111390,"date":"2023-01-05T10:01:31","date_gmt":"2023-01-05T05:01:31","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/tns.world\/?p=111390"},"modified":"2023-01-05T10:01:31","modified_gmt":"2023-01-05T05:01:31","slug":"nz-hungry-for-result-in-final-test","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/tns.world\/?p=111390","title":{"rendered":"NZ \u2018hungry\u2019 for result in final Test"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>KARACHI: New Zealand\u2019s wicketkeeper-batsman Tom Blundell on Wednesday said they will need to set a good total for Pakistan to chase.<\/p>\n<div class=\"ads_between_content\">\n<div id=\"div-gpt-ad-1523347863262-14\" class=\"story_ads\" data-google-query-id=\"CNDZzfnSr_wCFYVXpAQdBK4PuA\">\n<p>The wicket is very flat. Tomorrow once we will get the last wicket and will then reassess the situation. Pakistan is a very good batting line-up and they showed this in the last couple of games. We probably will need to get a big total,\u201d Blundell told reporters at the end of the third day\u2019s play of the second Test against Pakistan here at the National Stadium.<\/p>\n<p>Pressed whether they will need 150 or 200 runs target to set for the hosts Blundell said they will need more than that.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIt\u2019s a flat wicket, to be honest, a little bit invariable bounce but I think its still a pretty good wicket. I don\u2019t really say that it\u2019s deteriorating too much, we shall see,\u201d he said. About Sarfaraz\u2019s stumping Blundell said it was a little bit of luck.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI think it was a little bit of luck. I maintain the timing, first I don\u2019t think it was out, and in the end looking at the big screen there is a little bit of chance and for me to get the bails off as quickly as possible and fortunately for me it was the perfect timing,\u201d said the stumper.<\/p>\n<p>He said that they are hungry for result.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>KARACHI: New Zealand\u2019s wicketkeeper-batsman Tom Blundell on Wednesday said they will need to set a good total for Pakistan to chase. The wicket is very flat. Tomorrow once we will get the last wicket and will then reassess the situation. Pakistan is a very good batting line-up and they showed this in the last couple [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":111391,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[20],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-111390","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\/111390","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=111390"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/tns.world\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/111390\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":111392,"href":"https:\/\/tns.world\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/111390\/revisions\/111392"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tns.world\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/111391"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/tns.world\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=111390"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tns.world\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=111390"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tns.world\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=111390"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}