{"id":42270,"date":"2018-01-06T12:42:36","date_gmt":"2018-01-06T07:42:36","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/tns.world\/?p=42270"},"modified":"2018-01-06T12:42:36","modified_gmt":"2018-01-06T07:42:36","slug":"fakhar-resistance-in-vain-as-nz-win-by-61-runs","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/tns.world\/?p=42270","title":{"rendered":"Fakhar resistance in vain as NZ win by 61 runs"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>WELLINGTON Jan 06 (TNS):<\/strong> New Zealand have won the first\u00a0one-day international (ODI) against Pakistan by\u00a061 runs via the DLS method.<\/p>\n<p>With New Zealand batting first, Pakistan were\u00a0given a target of 316 runs. However, the match was stopped due to rain while Pakistan were at 166-6.<\/p>\n<p>Pakistan had won the toss and asked the opponent team to bat first.<\/p>\n<p>In the given number of overs, New Zealand lost only seven wickets in their journey\u00a0to 315 runs. Their captain\u00a0Kane Williamson brilliantly bagged 115 runs, helping his team tremendously.<\/p>\n<p>Hassan Ali of Pakistan took three wickets, while\u00a0Mohammad Amir, Rumman Raees, Faheem Ashraf, Fakhar Zaman took one each.<\/p>\n<p>With Pakistan batting now, they lost their first wicket at just six runs when Tim Southee took Azhar Ali&#8217;s wicket.<\/p>\n<p>Southee went on to take another wicket\u00a0when he bowled out Babar Azam at seven runs.\u00a0Trent Boult took the third, sending\u00a0Mohammad Hafeez off the pitch.<\/p>\n<p>Earlier, Pakistani skipper Sarfraz Ahmed had expressed hope that his team will continue its winning streak in the five-match ODI series against New Zealand.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe have won nine matches in a row because we are playing as a unit, not individuals,\u201d he had mentioned, just after the toss.<\/p>\n<p>Pakistan made three changes in the final XI that took in Sri Lanka last October \u2014 its most recent ODI.<\/p>\n<p>Opening batsman Azhar Ali has returned to the side in place of Imam ul Haq, while fast bowling duo Rumman Raees and Mohammad Aamir are back in place of injured Imad Wasim and Usman Khan Shinwari.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>WELLINGTON Jan 06 (TNS): New Zealand have won the first\u00a0one-day international (ODI) against Pakistan by\u00a061 runs via the DLS method. With New Zealand batting first, Pakistan were\u00a0given a target of 316 runs. However, the match was stopped due to rain while Pakistan were at 166-6. Pakistan had won the toss and asked the opponent team [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":42271,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[20],"tags":[330],"class_list":["post-42270","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\/42270","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=42270"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/tns.world\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/42270\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":42272,"href":"https:\/\/tns.world\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/42270\/revisions\/42272"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tns.world\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/42271"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/tns.world\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=42270"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tns.world\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=42270"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tns.world\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=42270"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}