{"id":876,"date":"2016-01-15T11:12:01","date_gmt":"2016-01-15T11:12:01","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/morningpost.today\/eng\/?p=876"},"modified":"2016-01-15T11:12:01","modified_gmt":"2016-01-15T11:12:01","slug":"first-t20-pakistan-beat-new-zealand-by-16-runs","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/morningpostnews.pk\/eng\/first-t20-pakistan-beat-new-zealand-by-16-runs\/","title":{"rendered":"First T20: Pakistan beat New Zealand by 16 runs"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>AUCKLAND (Staff Report) \u2013 Pakistan on Friday beat New Zealand by 16 runs in first\u00a0T20 game of thee-match series against\u00a0Pakistan at Auckland\u2019s Eden Garden cricket stadium.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Pakistan set 172 runs target\u00a0while New Zealand could score 155 runs in the given 20 overs.<\/p>\n<p>Pakistan\u2019s opener Mohammad Hafeez scored 61 runs off 47 balls while Shahid Afridi hammered 23 runs off 8 balls only. He hit 2 sixes and 2 fours.<\/p>\n<p>New Zealand\u2019s\u00a0AF Milne picked four wickets against 37 runs.<\/p>\n<p>While chasing the target New Zealand skipper Williamson scored 70 runs off 60 balls. Munro smashed 56 runs off 27 balls only.<\/p>\n<p>Pakistan\u2019s Wahab Riaz got three wickets,\u00a0and\u00a0Umer Gul and Shahid Afridi each picked two wickets. Muhammad Amir bagged\u00a0one wicket.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>AUCKLAND (Staff Report) \u2013 Pakistan on Friday beat New Zealand by 16 runs in first\u00a0T20 game of thee-match series against\u00a0Pakistan at Auckland\u2019s Eden Garden cricket stadium. Pakistan set 172 runs target\u00a0while New Zealand could score 155 runs in the given 20 overs. Pakistan\u2019s opener Mohammad Hafeez scored 61 runs off 47 balls while Shahid Afridi [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":877,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[236,40],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/morningpostnews.pk\/eng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/876"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/morningpostnews.pk\/eng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/morningpostnews.pk\/eng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/morningpostnews.pk\/eng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/morningpostnews.pk\/eng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=876"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/morningpostnews.pk\/eng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/876\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":878,"href":"https:\/\/morningpostnews.pk\/eng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/876\/revisions\/878"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/morningpostnews.pk\/eng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/877"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/morningpostnews.pk\/eng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=876"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/morningpostnews.pk\/eng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=876"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/morningpostnews.pk\/eng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=876"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}