{"id":79222,"date":"2018-11-01T12:08:00","date_gmt":"2018-11-01T07:08:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/tns.world\/?p=79222"},"modified":"2018-11-01T12:08:00","modified_gmt":"2018-11-01T07:08:00","slug":"pakistan-beat-new-zealand-by-two-runs-in-twenty20-thriller","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/tns.world\/?p=79222","title":{"rendered":"Pakistan beat New Zealand by two runs in Twenty20 thriller"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"template__main  clearfix    modifier--open        px-1  modifier--widedefault  modifier--blockquote-center-narrow  \">\n<div class=\"story__content          pt-1  mt-1\">\n<p>Abu Dhabi, Nov 01 (TNS): Pakistan beat New Zealand by two runs in the first Twenty20 international in a last over thriller in Abu Dhabi on Wednesday to take a 1-0 lead in the three-match series.<\/p>\n<p>New Zealand needed a six off the last ball to tie the match but managed a boundary to finish at 146-6 in 20 overs.<\/p>\n<p>Pakistan&#8217;s best bowler was Hasan Ali who finished with 3-35.<\/p>\n<p>Pakistan made 148-6 with Mohammad Hafeez (45), Sarfraz Ahmed (34) and Asif Ali (24) main run getters after they won the toss and batted.<\/p>\n<p>Adam Milne was the best New Zealand bowler with 2-28.<\/p>\n<p>The remaining two matches will be played in Dubai on Friday and Sunday.<\/p>\n<h2 id=\"5bda035b6c697\">Teams<\/h2>\n<p><strong>Pakistan:<\/strong>\u00a0Sarfraz Ahmed (captain), Mohammad Hafeez, Sahibzada Farhan, Babar Azam, Shoaib Malik, Asif Ali, Shadab Khan, Shaheen Shah Afridi, Hasan Ali, Imad Wasim, Faheem Ashraf<\/p>\n<p><strong>New Zealand:<\/strong>\u00a0Kane Williamson (captain), Corey Anderson, Colin de Grandhomme, Adam Milne, Colin Munro, Ajaz Patel, Glenn Phillips, Tim Seifert, Ish Sodhi, Tim Southee, Ross Taylor<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Abu Dhabi, Nov 01 (TNS): Pakistan beat New Zealand by two runs in the first Twenty20 international in a last over thriller in Abu Dhabi on Wednesday to take a 1-0 lead in the three-match series. New Zealand needed a six off the last ball to tie the match but managed a boundary to finish [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":79223,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[23,20],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-79222","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-national","category-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/tns.world\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/79222","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=79222"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/tns.world\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/79222\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":79224,"href":"https:\/\/tns.world\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/79222\/revisions\/79224"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tns.world\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/79223"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/tns.world\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=79222"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tns.world\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=79222"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tns.world\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=79222"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}