{"id":172,"date":"2014-11-18T13:33:22","date_gmt":"2014-11-18T13:33:22","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/cpectrade.co.uk\/?p=172"},"modified":"2014-12-01T14:13:20","modified_gmt":"2014-12-01T14:13:20","slug":"nz-make-solid-start","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/cpectrade.co.uk\/?p=172","title":{"rendered":"NZ make solid Start"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>NZ make solid start, 82-1 at lunch<br \/>\n<\/strong><br \/>\nDUBAI: New Zealand lost opener Brendon McCullum after a solid start to reach lunch on 82-1 on the opening day of the second Test against Pakistan on Monday.<\/p>\n<p>McCullum pulled a short delivery from seamer Ehsan Adil straight into the hands of Shan Masood at deep square-leg for 43 after New Zealand won the toss on a flat, grassless pitch at Dubai stadium.<\/p>\n<p>At the break Tom Latham was on 35 and Kane Williamson was four not out after the openers had raced to 77 in a solid start to the innings.<\/p>\n<p>McCullum took the attack to the bowlers, hitting four boundaries and two sixes during his 69-minute stay at the crease.<\/p>\n<p>Latham, who survived a leg-before review off Adil when on 11, has so far hit four boundaries in his 90-ball knock.<\/p>\n<p>New Zealand, trailing the three-match series 1-0, kept the same side which lost the first Test by 248 runs in Abu Dhabi last week.<\/p>\n<p>Pakistan were forced to play with a new opening pair after Ahmed Shehzad was ruled out of the remaining two Tests with a skull fracture, and Mohammad Hafeez suffered a hamstring injury.<\/p>\n<p>They were replaced by Masood and Taufeeq Umar while paceman Imran Khan was rested and made way for Adil. (AFP)<br \/>\n<em><br \/>\n<strong>Source Geo News<\/strong><\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>NZ make solid start, 82-1 at lunch DUBAI: New Zealand lost opener Brendon McCullum after a solid start to reach lunch on 82-1 on the opening day of the second Test against Pakistan on Monday. McCullum pulled a short delivery from seamer Ehsan Adil straight into the hands of Shan Masood at deep square-leg for [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":6,"featured_media":173,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[22],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-172","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-sports","last_archivepost"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/cpectrade.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/172","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/cpectrade.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/cpectrade.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cpectrade.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/6"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cpectrade.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=172"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/cpectrade.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/172\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":174,"href":"https:\/\/cpectrade.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/172\/revisions\/174"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cpectrade.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/173"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/cpectrade.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=172"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cpectrade.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=172"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cpectrade.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=172"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}