{"id":23321,"date":"2024-01-21T18:50:00","date_gmt":"2024-01-21T13:50:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/dailyausaf.com\/en\/?p=23321"},"modified":"2024-01-21T18:50:54","modified_gmt":"2024-01-21T13:50:54","slug":"pakistan-triumphs-over-new-zealand-avoids-series-whitewash-in-5th-t20i","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/dailyausaf.com\/en\/latest-news\/pakistan-triumphs-over-new-zealand-avoids-series-whitewash-in-5th-t20i\/","title":{"rendered":"Pakistan Triumphs Over New Zealand, Avoids Series Whitewash in 5th T20I"},"content":{"rendered":"<h3>Pakistan defeated New Zealand by 42 runs in the fifth T20I to avoid a whitewash in the series on Sunday.<\/h3>\n<p>Chasing a target of 135 runs set by Green Shirts, <a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/New_Zealand\">New Zealand<\/a> were bowled out for 92 runs in 17.2 overs, however, New Zealand won the series 4-1.<\/p>\n<p>New Zealand were 53-2 at one stage but suffered a major collapse to get bowled out inside 20 overs.<\/p>\n<p>Off-spinner Iftikhar Ahmed, who bowled for the first time in the series, was the pick of the bowlers for Pakistan with figures of 3-24 in four overs. Captain Shaheen Afridi and all-rounder Mohammad Nawaz bagged two wickets each.<\/p>\n<p>Glenn Phillips was the top-scorer for the home side with 26 runs in 22 balls.<\/p>\n<p><b><i>Read more:\u00a0\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/dailyausaf.com\/en\/sports\/virat-kohli-rises-babar-babar-slips-icc-test-rankings-shake-up.html\">Virat Kohli rises, Babar Babar slips: ICC Test Rankings shake-up<\/a><\/i><\/b><\/p>\n<p>After winning the toss, Pakistan limped to 134-8, with a regular loss of wickets stymying their efforts to overcome a slow start against another disciplined New Zealand bowling display.<\/p>\n<p><b><i>Read more:\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/dailyausaf.com\/en\/pakistan\/babar-azam-again-on-top-dethrones-shubman-gill.html\">Babar Azam Again on Top dethrones Shubman Gill<\/a><\/i><\/b><\/p>\n<p>Pakistan went with a spin-heavy attack for the final game.<\/p>\n<p>Saim Ayub was dropped out for Haseebullah Khan at the top of the order and Mohammad Wasim was out for Usama Mir and Abbas Afridi coming in for Haris Rauf.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Pakistan defeated New Zealand by 42 runs in the fifth T20I to avoid a whitewash in the series on Sunday. Chasing a target of 135 runs set by Green Shirts, New Zealand were bowled out for 92 runs in 17.2 overs, however, New Zealand won the series 4-1. New Zealand were 53-2 at one stage [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":8,"featured_media":23322,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9,6],"tags":[516,138],"class_list":["post-23321","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-latest-news","category-sports","tag-new-zealand","tag-pakistan"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/dailyausaf.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23321","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=23321"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/dailyausaf.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23321\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dailyausaf.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/23322"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/dailyausaf.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=23321"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dailyausaf.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=23321"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dailyausaf.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=23321"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}