{"id":29512,"date":"2017-11-07T15:25:44","date_gmt":"2017-11-07T10:25:44","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/tns.world\/?p=29512"},"modified":"2017-11-07T15:25:44","modified_gmt":"2017-11-07T10:25:44","slug":"international-festival-of-hockey-pak-to-play-against-austarlia-tomorrow","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/tns.world\/?p=29512","title":{"rendered":"International Festival of Hockey: Pak to play against Austarlia tomorrow"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>MELBOURNE Nov 07 (TNS):<\/strong> Pakistan will play\u00a0its first match of the International Festival of Hockey against the hosts Australia at Melbourne&#8217;s State Netball Hockey Centre on Wednesday.<\/p>\n<p>The 4-Nation tournament also features New Zealand and Japan.<\/p>\n<p>After the single league, the top two teams would play the final, with the bottom two featuring in the third position game.<\/p>\n<p>Australia, the reigning world champions who are no 2 in the FIH rankings, are the favourites.<\/p>\n<p>Their trans-Tasman rivals New Zealand (ranked 8) are expected to offer the toughest competition.<\/p>\n<p>It will be a surprise if any of the Asia sides, Pakistan (ranked 13) and Japan (ranked 16), makes it to the final.<\/p>\n<p>Pakistan&#8217;s Matches:<\/p>\n<p>Wednesday 8 November, vs Australia<\/p>\n<p>Thursday 9 November, vs New Zealand<\/p>\n<p>Saturday 11 November, vs Japan<\/p>\n<p>Final &amp; 3rd Position match:<\/p>\n<p>Sunday, 12 November<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>MELBOURNE Nov 07 (TNS): Pakistan will play\u00a0its first match of the International Festival of Hockey against the hosts Australia at Melbourne&#8217;s State Netball Hockey Centre on Wednesday. The 4-Nation tournament also features New Zealand and Japan. After the single league, the top two teams would play the final, with the bottom two featuring in the [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":29513,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[20],"tags":[330],"class_list":["post-29512","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\/29512","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=29512"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/tns.world\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/29512\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":29514,"href":"https:\/\/tns.world\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/29512\/revisions\/29514"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tns.world\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/29513"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/tns.world\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=29512"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tns.world\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=29512"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tns.world\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=29512"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}