{"id":70961,"date":"2018-07-09T16:41:19","date_gmt":"2018-07-09T11:41:19","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/tns.world\/?p=70961"},"modified":"2018-07-09T16:41:19","modified_gmt":"2018-07-09T11:41:19","slug":"fakhar-zaman-soars-to-number-2-spot-in-icc-t20i-rankings","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/tns.world\/?p=70961","title":{"rendered":"Fakhar Zaman soars to number 2 spot in ICC T20I rankings"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><strong>Dubai, July 9 (TNS): <\/strong>Fakhar Zaman, who cemented his reputation as a clutch former on Sunday, has deservedly\u00a0soared to number two\u00a0in the International Cricket Council&#8217;s (ICC) T20I player rankings for batsmen.<\/p>\n<p>The Man from Mardan, who\u00a0made his name\u00a0with a scintillating century in the ICC Champions Trophy final against India last year, was at it again in the Tri-nation T20 series decided against Australia on Sunday.<\/p>\n<p>Unfazed by wickets tumbling around him, Fakhar\u00a0smashed a 46-ball 91\u00a0that paved way for Pakistan to track down the Aussies&#8217; 188-run target with four balls and six wickets to spare.<\/p>\n<p>In all, Zaman scored a staggering 278 run in five outings in the Zimbabwe-hosted tournament at an average of 55-6 \u2014 almost unheard-of figures for the game&#8217;s shortest international formats.<\/p>\n<p>His incredible production was duly rewarded as the latest rankings published by the ICC has seen him soar to the number two spot, behind just Australia captain Aaron Finch. Zaman now has 842 rating points \u2014 just 49 less than Finch&#8217;s tally.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&nbsp; Dubai, July 9 (TNS): Fakhar Zaman, who cemented his reputation as a clutch former on Sunday, has deservedly\u00a0soared to number two\u00a0in the International Cricket Council&#8217;s (ICC) T20I player rankings for batsmen. The Man from Mardan, who\u00a0made his name\u00a0with a scintillating century in the ICC Champions Trophy final against India last year, was at it [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":70962,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[20],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-70961","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\/70961","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=70961"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/tns.world\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/70961\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":70963,"href":"https:\/\/tns.world\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/70961\/revisions\/70963"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tns.world\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/70962"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/tns.world\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=70961"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tns.world\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=70961"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tns.world\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=70961"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}