{"id":28066,"date":"2017-11-01T01:15:51","date_gmt":"2017-10-31T20:15:51","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/tns.world\/?p=28066"},"modified":"2017-11-01T01:15:51","modified_gmt":"2017-10-31T20:15:51","slug":"white-ferns-collect-five-wickets-at-the-death-to-beat-pakistan","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/tns.world\/?p=28066","title":{"rendered":"White Ferns collect five wickets at the death to beat Pakistan"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>Sharjah, Nov. 1 (TNS):<\/strong> The White Ferns have opened their one day international\u00a0series against Pakistan with a thrilling eight-run win in\u00a0Sharjah, the islander media reported on Wednesday.<\/p>\n<p>A century by opener Sophie Devine\u00a0anchored New Zealand&#8217;s 240-9, but the drama was reserved for the final ten overs of Pakistan&#8217;s run chase, which ultimately fell short.<\/p>\n<p>Pakistan were on track for a comfortable\u00a0victory as they entered the final 10 overs requiring just 56 runs with six wickets still in hand.<\/p>\n<p>However, the White Ferns were able to hold their nerve to claim the final five wickets for just 15 runs, ending Pakistan&#8217;s chase with midway through the penultimate over.<\/p>\n<p>The dramatic finish saw two Pakistani players run out, while Amelia Kerr (2-36),\u00a0Holly Huddleston (2-32) and off-spinner Leigh\u00a0Kasperek\u00a0(2-35) all made helpful contributions with the ball, giving New Zealand the perfect start to the three-game series.<\/p>\n<p>Devine was the top scorer for the White Ferns, finishing with 103 off 119 balls &#8211; just her second ODI century.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Sharjah, Nov. 1 (TNS): The White Ferns have opened their one day international\u00a0series against Pakistan with a thrilling eight-run win in\u00a0Sharjah, the islander media reported on Wednesday. A century by opener Sophie Devine\u00a0anchored New Zealand&#8217;s 240-9, but the drama was reserved for the final ten overs of Pakistan&#8217;s run chase, which ultimately fell short. Pakistan [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":28067,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[20],"tags":[330],"class_list":["post-28066","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-sports","tag-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/tns.world\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/28066","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=28066"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/tns.world\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/28066\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":28068,"href":"https:\/\/tns.world\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/28066\/revisions\/28068"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tns.world\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/28067"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/tns.world\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=28066"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tns.world\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=28066"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tns.world\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=28066"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}