{"id":23699,"date":"2025-02-20T05:31:42","date_gmt":"2025-02-20T05:31:42","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/voiceofmelange.global\/?p=23699"},"modified":"2025-02-20T05:31:42","modified_gmt":"2025-02-20T05:31:42","slug":"n-zealand-beat-pakistan-by-60-runs-in-first-champions-trophy-match","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/voiceofmelange.global\/?p=23699","title":{"rendered":"N. Zealand beat Pakistan by 60 runs in first Champions Trophy match"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<figure class=\"wp-block-gallery has-nested-images columns-default is-cropped wp-block-gallery-1 is-layout-flex wp-block-gallery-is-layout-flex\">\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"720\" height=\"720\" data-id=\"23700\" src=\"https:\/\/voiceofmelange.global\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/02\/FB_IMG_1740029333332.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-23700\" srcset=\"https:\/\/voiceofmelange.global\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/02\/FB_IMG_1740029333332.jpg 720w, https:\/\/voiceofmelange.global\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/02\/FB_IMG_1740029333332-300x300.jpg 300w, https:\/\/voiceofmelange.global\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/02\/FB_IMG_1740029333332-150x150.jpg 150w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 720px) 100vw, 720px\" \/><\/figure>\n<\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>Karachi: In opening match of the ICC Champions Trophy at Karachi New Zealand beat Pakistan by sixty runs tonight.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Bating first, New Zealand scored 320 runs in stipulated 50 overs for the loss of five wickets.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>In reply, Pakistan could score -260 for all out in 47.2 overs.<br>Earlier, New Zealand struck early against Pakistan as Will O\u2019Rourke sent opener Saud Shakeel (6) and skipper Mohammad Rizwan (3) back to the pavilion.<br>Put into bat first, the New Zealand team registered 320\/5 on the board in 50 overs, thanks to a match-defining fourth-wicket partnership between Young and Latham.<br>Young dismissed after scoring 107 off 113 deliveries while Latham scored unbeaten 118 off 104 deliveries. He was declared as man of the match.<br>Another Kiwi batsman Phillips made 61 off 39 deliveries and played important role in their team\u2019s victory.<br>President Asif Ali Zardari and First Lady Aseefa Bhutto Zardari attended the opening match as the chief guests.<br>The event also featured an aerial display by the Pakistan Air Force\u2019s Sherdil Squadron.<br>The eight-team tournament will be played across three venues in Pakistan \u2013 Karachi, Lahore and Rawalpindi \u2013 as well as in Dubai, United Arab Emirates (UAE) from 19 February to 9 March.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Karachi: In opening match of the ICC Champions Trophy at Karachi New Zealand beat Pakistan by sixty runs tonight. Bating first, New Zealand scored 320 runs in stipulated 50 overs&hellip; <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":23700,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[27,7],"tags":[2144,261,178],"class_list":["post-23699","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-breaking-news","category-sports","tag-icc-champions-trophy","tag-new-zealand-cricket-team","tag-pakistan-cricket-board-pcb"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/voiceofmelange.global\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23699","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/voiceofmelange.global\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/voiceofmelange.global\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/voiceofmelange.global\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/voiceofmelange.global\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=23699"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/voiceofmelange.global\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23699\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":23701,"href":"https:\/\/voiceofmelange.global\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23699\/revisions\/23701"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/voiceofmelange.global\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/23700"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/voiceofmelange.global\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=23699"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/voiceofmelange.global\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=23699"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/voiceofmelange.global\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=23699"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}