{"id":72947,"date":"2018-07-22T18:30:04","date_gmt":"2018-07-22T13:30:04","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/tns.world\/?p=72947"},"modified":"2018-07-22T18:30:04","modified_gmt":"2018-07-22T13:30:04","slug":"fakhar-becomes-quickest-player-to-reach-1000-runs","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/tns.world\/?p=72947","title":{"rendered":"Fakhar becomes quickest player to reach 1000 runs"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Bulawayo, July 22 (TNS):\u00a0Pakistan\u00a0opening batsman\u00a0Fakhar Zamanbecame the quickest player to reach the 1000 runs in one-day internationals (ODI), breaking the record of West Indies Legend\u00a0Vivian Richards, here on Sunday.<br \/>\nHe achieved the feat during the fifth and final\u00a0ODI\u00a0of the ongoing five-match series against\u00a0Zimbabwe.<br \/>\nThe 28-year-old took 18 innings to reach the 1000 mark while the West Indies batsman had achieved the figure in 21 matches.<br \/>\nZaman made his\u00a0ODI\u00a0debut just over a year ago in the ICC Champions Trophy 2017 and smashed 252 runs in just four innings in India-Pakistan\u00a0final.<br \/>\nDuring the course of the\u00a0ODI\u00a0series in\u00a0Zimbabwe, Zaman had recorded scores of 60, 117 (not out), 43 (not out) and 210 (not out) prior to the latest innings.<br \/>\nHis innings of 210 runs in the fourth match against\u00a0Zimbabwe\u00a0was the first double century in the format by a\u00a0Pakistani cricketer, and only the eighth overall after Rohit Sharma, Sachin Tendulkar, Virender Sehwag, Chris Gayle and Martin Guptill.<br \/>\nZaman has scored three centuries and five half-centuries in eighteen\u00a0ODIs that he has played so far.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&nbsp; Bulawayo, July 22 (TNS):\u00a0Pakistan\u00a0opening batsman\u00a0Fakhar Zamanbecame the quickest player to reach the 1000 runs in one-day internationals (ODI), breaking the record of West Indies Legend\u00a0Vivian Richards, here on Sunday. He achieved the feat during the fifth and final\u00a0ODI\u00a0of the ongoing five-match series against\u00a0Zimbabwe. The 28-year-old took 18 innings to reach the 1000 mark while [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":61026,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[20],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-72947","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\/72947","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=72947"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/tns.world\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/72947\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":72948,"href":"https:\/\/tns.world\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/72947\/revisions\/72948"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tns.world\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/61026"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/tns.world\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=72947"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tns.world\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=72947"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tns.world\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=72947"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}