{"id":12067,"date":"2021-10-26T22:11:05","date_gmt":"2021-10-26T22:11:05","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/dailyrapidnews.com\/eng\/?p=12067"},"modified":"2021-10-26T22:11:05","modified_gmt":"2021-10-26T22:11:05","slug":"t20-world-cup-2021-pakistan-defeats-new-zealand","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/dailyrapidnews.com\/eng\/2021\/10\/26\/t20-world-cup-2021-pakistan-defeats-new-zealand\/","title":{"rendered":"T20 World Cup 2021: Pakistan Defeats New Zealand"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>SHARJAH: Pakistan won by five wickets against New Zealand in 19th match of T20 World Cup at Sharjah stadium today.<\/p>\n<p>Mohammad Asif and Shoaib Malik rescued Pakistan after it lost five wickets.<\/p>\n<p>Pakistan successfully chased the target of 135 in 19th over.<\/p>\n<p>Earlier, Shaheen Shah Afridi bowled a maiden in the opening over to immediately put a batting-heavy New Zealand side under pressure while Haris Rauf took four wickets.<\/p>\n<p>Earlier, Pakistan won the toss and opt to bowl first in the 19th match of T20 World Cup against New Zealand today at Sharjah cricket stadium.<\/p>\n<p>The first blow for New Zealand is that its pacer Lockie Ferguson has been ruled out of the T20 World Cup due to a calf injury.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>SHARJAH: Pakistan won by five wickets against New Zealand in 19th match of T20 World<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":12068,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"spay_email":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-12067","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-sports"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v18.4.1 - 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