{"id":79344,"date":"2018-11-05T08:47:37","date_gmt":"2018-11-05T03:47:37","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/tns.world\/?p=79344"},"modified":"2018-11-05T08:57:43","modified_gmt":"2018-11-05T03:57:43","slug":"pakistan-whitewash-new-zealand-3-0-in-twenty20-series","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/tns.world\/?p=79344","title":{"rendered":"Pakistan whitewash New Zealand 3-0 in Twenty20 series"},"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>Dubai, Nov 05 (TNS): Pakistan defeated New Zealand by 47 runs in the third and final Twenty20 international in Dubai on Sunday to claim another clean-sweep in the game&#8217;s shortest format.<\/p>\n<p>Pakistan were lifted to 166-3 by Babar Azam who made a 58-ball 79 with seven boundaries and two sixes while Mohammad Hafeez hit a 34-ball 53 with four boundaries and two sixes.<\/p>\n<p>When on 48, Azam became the quickest to score 1,000 Twenty20 runs in just 26 innings beating India&#8217;s Virat Kohli&#8217;s record by an innings.<\/p>\n<p>Leg-spinner Shadab Khan took 3-30 as New Zealand were bundled out for 119 in 16.5 overs. Pakistan won the first match in Abu Dhabi by two runs and the second by six wickets in Dubai.<\/p>\n<p>The men-in-green had rested pacers Shaheen Afridi and Hasan Ali, and handed a debut to Waqas Maqsood \u2014 that too on his 31st birthday.<\/p>\n<h2 id=\"5bdf4777ee409\">Squad:<\/h2>\n<p><strong>Pakistan:<\/strong>\u00a0Babar Azam, Fakhar Zaman, Asif Ali, Shoaib Malik, Mohammad Hafeez, Sarfraz Ahmed, Faheem Ashraf, Imad Wasim, Shadab Khan, Usman Khan, Waqas Maqsood<\/p>\n<p><strong>New Zealand:<\/strong>\u00a0Colin Munro, Glenn Phillips, Kane Williamson, Colin de Grandhomme, Mark Chapman, Ross Taylor, Tim Seifert, Tim Southee, Lockie Ferguson, Ish Sodhi, Seth Rance<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"template__footer clearfix modifier--open px-1 \">\n<div class=\"row no-gutters\">\n<div class=\"col-12 col-sm-10 col-sm-offset-1\">\n<div class=\"row no-gutters\">\n<div class=\"col-12 col-sm-11\">\n<div class=\"ml-0 ml-sm-6 px-0 px-sm-2\"><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Dubai, Nov 05 (TNS): Pakistan defeated New Zealand by 47 runs in the third and final Twenty20 international in Dubai on Sunday to claim another clean-sweep in the game&#8217;s shortest format. Pakistan were lifted to 166-3 by Babar Azam who made a 58-ball 79 with seven boundaries and two sixes while Mohammad Hafeez hit a [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":79345,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[23,20],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-79344","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\/79344","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=79344"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/tns.world\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/79344\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":79351,"href":"https:\/\/tns.world\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/79344\/revisions\/79351"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tns.world\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/79345"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/tns.world\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=79344"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tns.world\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=79344"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tns.world\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=79344"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}