{"id":70433,"date":"2018-07-04T16:52:43","date_gmt":"2018-07-04T11:52:43","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/tns.world\/?p=70433"},"modified":"2018-07-04T16:52:43","modified_gmt":"2018-07-04T11:52:43","slug":"pakistan-bamboozle-zimbabwe-by-7-wickets-to-reach-final-of-tri-nation-series","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/tns.world\/?p=70433","title":{"rendered":"Pakistan bamboozle Zimbabwe by 7 wickets to reach final of Tri-Nation Series"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Harare,July 4(TNS): Pakistan defeated Zimbabwe by 7 wickets in a clinical run-chase as they romped the target of 163 in the last over to clinch a berth in the final of the Tri-nation series.<br \/>\nPakistan Skipper Sarfraz Ahmed who won the toss and elected to field first received a counter-attacking bashing from the Zimbabweans in the first six overs as Solomon Mire and Cephas Zhuwao put up a solid partnership of 49.<br \/>\nAt one stage the looked to achieve a healthy first innings total of 180 but as wickets crumbled in the last 5 overs Zimbabwe were restricted to 162-4 by the Amir- led Pakistani bowling attack.<br \/>\nPakistan, however did not look nervy in their runchase as expected as Fakhar bashed the bowlers with command and looked good for his 47 smashing 4 fours and a six.<br \/>\nIslamabad United\u2019s young star Hussain Talat made a handy 44 as anchored the innings at one end.<br \/>\nBut the innings which provided the impetus to the runchase was the knock of the skipper as Sarfraz thrashed the bowlers with authority scoring 38 off just 21 including 6 fours at Strike of 180.95.<br \/>\nPakistan will now face Australia in the final of the Tri nation series on Sunday.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Harare,July 4(TNS): Pakistan defeated Zimbabwe by 7 wickets in a clinical run-chase as they romped the target of 163 in the last over to clinch a berth in the final of the Tri-nation series. Pakistan Skipper Sarfraz Ahmed who won the toss and elected to field first received a counter-attacking bashing from the Zimbabweans in [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":70434,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[20],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-70433","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\/70433","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=70433"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/tns.world\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/70433\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":70435,"href":"https:\/\/tns.world\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/70433\/revisions\/70435"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tns.world\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/70434"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/tns.world\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=70433"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tns.world\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=70433"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tns.world\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=70433"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}