{"id":17950,"date":"2023-07-18T17:32:13","date_gmt":"2023-07-18T12:32:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/dailyausaf.com\/en\/?p=17950"},"modified":"2023-07-18T17:32:13","modified_gmt":"2023-07-18T12:32:13","slug":"pakistan-in-command-after-saud-shakeels-ton","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/dailyausaf.com\/en\/pakistan\/pakistan-in-command-after-saud-shakeels-ton\/","title":{"rendered":"Pakistan in command after Saud Shakeel\u2019s ton"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Left-handed batter Saud Shakeel hit an attacking century on Tuesday against Sri Lanka helping Pakistan take the lead on the second day of the rain-hit first Test played at Galle International Stadium.<\/p>\n<p>Shakeel scored 150 with the help of 14 boundaries at a strike-rate of over 67 while his overnight partner Agha Salman got out at 83 off Ramesh Mendis.<\/p>\n<p>The tourists reached 365-8 after 84 overs, 50 runs ahead of Sri Lanka\u2019s first innings total, after a delayed start to the day due to rain and a wet outfield in Galle.<\/p>\n<p>https:\/\/twitter.com\/TheRealPCB\/status\/1681232254197190656?s=20<\/p>\n<p>Shakeel, playing in his sixth Test, hit a boundary and took three runs to raise his second Test ton in a 177-run stand with Salman.<\/p>\n<p>The pair rescued Pakistan from a precarious 101-5 on day two as they took on the Sri Lankan spinners led by left-armer Prabath Jayasuriya, who rattled the visitors on Monday with three top-order wickets including skipper Babar Azam.<\/p>\n<p>Both Shakeel and Salman scored runs briskly and hit regular boundaries but the run rate dipped after Salman\u00b4s departure.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Left-handed batter Saud Shakeel hit an attacking century on Tuesday against Sri Lanka helping Pakistan take the lead on the second day of the rain-hit first Test played at Galle International Stadium. Shakeel scored 150 with the help of 14 boundaries at a strike-rate of over 67 while his overnight partner Agha Salman got out [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":8,"featured_media":17952,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9,2],"tags":[694,9756,138,44],"class_list":["post-17950","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-latest-news","category-pakistan","tag-babar-azam","tag-saud-shakeel","tag-pakistan","tag-sri-lanka"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/dailyausaf.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17950","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/dailyausaf.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/dailyausaf.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dailyausaf.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/8"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dailyausaf.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=17950"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/dailyausaf.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17950\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dailyausaf.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/17952"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/dailyausaf.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=17950"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dailyausaf.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=17950"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dailyausaf.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=17950"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}