{"id":2137,"date":"2023-01-10T09:48:20","date_gmt":"2023-01-09T20:48:20","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/thebuzz.apnanetwork.co.nz\/?p=2137"},"modified":"2023-01-10T09:48:20","modified_gmt":"2023-01-09T20:48:20","slug":"black-caps-lose-opening-one-dayer-in-pakistan","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thebuzz.apnanetwork.co.nz\/?p=2137","title":{"rendered":"Black Caps lose opening one-dayer in Pakistan"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Pakistan have beaten the Black Caps by six wickets in the opening one-dayer in Karachi.<\/p>\n<div class=\"photo-captioned photo-captioned-full photo-cntr eight_col \"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/rnz-ressh.cloudinary.com\/image\/upload\/s--U7dMXqxC--\/c_crop,h_2250,w_3600,x_0,y_126\/c_scale,h_2250,w_3600\/c_scale,f_auto,q_auto,w_1050\/4LK805T_221008BlackcapsPakistan_032_jpg\" alt=\"Devon Conway of the Black Caps and Kane Williamson of the Black Caps\" width=\"1050\" height=\"700\" \/><\/p>\n<p class=\"photo-captioned__information\"><span class=\"caption\">The Black Caps have been beaten in the first ODI against Pakistan.\u00a0<\/span><span class=\"credit\">Photo:\u00a0PHOTOSPORT<\/span><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p>Fast bowler Naseem Shah picked up five wickets before the trio of Fakhar Zaman, Babar Azam and Mohammad Rizwan all scored half-centuries as Pakistan chased down a target of 256 with 11 balls to spare.<\/p>\n<p>Put in to bat, the Black Caps posted 255 for 9 from their 50 overs, with Michael Bracewell scoring 43 and Tom Latham 42.<\/p>\n<p>Opener Zaman (56) and captain Azam (66) stitched together a partnership of 78 runs, with Rizwan then scoring an unbeaten 77 off 86 balls to guide Pakistan over the finish line and help them take a 1-0 lead in the three-match series.<\/p>\n<p>Bracewell was the pick of the bowlers for New Zealand, dismissing Zaman and Imam-ul-Haq, with Tim Southee and Glenn Phillips also taking a wicket apiece.<\/p>\n<p>It was 19-year-old Naseem&#8217;s second five-wicket haul in international cricket.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;A good performance is fun only when the team wins. Everyone bowled well. It was reversing, and I just bowled to my strength,&#8221; Shah said.<\/p>\n<p>None of New Zealand&#8217;s batters were able to build on their starts.<\/p>\n<p>Spinner Usama Mir had a debut to remember, taking the wickets of Kane Williamson and Latham.<\/p>\n<p>The second ODI of the series will be held at the same venue on Wednesday night (NZT).<\/p>\n<p>Source &#8211; RNZ<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Pakistan have beaten the Black Caps by six wickets in the opening one-dayer in Karachi. The Black Caps have been beaten in the first ODI against Pakistan.\u00a0Photo:\u00a0PHOTOSPORT Fast bowler Naseem Shah picked up five wickets before the trio of Fakhar Zaman, Babar Azam and Mohammad Rizwan all scored half-centuries as Pakistan chased down a target [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":6,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2137","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-sports"],"amp_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/thebuzz.apnanetwork.co.nz\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2137","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/thebuzz.apnanetwork.co.nz\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/thebuzz.apnanetwork.co.nz\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thebuzz.apnanetwork.co.nz\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/6"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thebuzz.apnanetwork.co.nz\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=2137"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/thebuzz.apnanetwork.co.nz\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2137\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2138,"href":"https:\/\/thebuzz.apnanetwork.co.nz\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2137\/revisions\/2138"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/thebuzz.apnanetwork.co.nz\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2137"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thebuzz.apnanetwork.co.nz\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=2137"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thebuzz.apnanetwork.co.nz\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=2137"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}