{"id":10101,"date":"2014-03-21T17:22:54","date_gmt":"2014-03-21T17:22:54","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/tat.reddaisytrading.co.uk\/index.php\/2014\/03\/21\/pakistan-fall-horrendously-against-india\/"},"modified":"2014-03-21T17:22:54","modified_gmt":"2014-03-21T17:22:54","slug":"pakistan-fall-horrendously-against-india","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.theasiantoday.com\/index.php\/2014\/03\/21\/pakistan-fall-horrendously-against-india\/","title":{"rendered":"Pakistan Fall Horrendously Against India"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"content\">\n<h3>India Win First T20 Match of Group 2<\/h3>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" border=\"1\" hspace=\"3\" alt=\"\" vspace=\"10\" align=\"middle\" width=\"512\" height=\"225\" src=\"http:\/\/www.theasiantoday.com\/Image\/ArticleImages\/pakvind-570x225.jpg\"\/><\/p>\n<p>&#13;<\/p>\n<div>With all the emotion and passion that a Pakistan v India match brings, this was definitely a let down. Pakistan\u2019s poor batting led them to a reduced 130 after 20 overs. <\/div>\n<p>&#13;<\/p>\n<div>\u00a0<\/div>\n<p>&#13;<\/p>\n<div>The first match of the group 2 match failed to live up to the excitement of the Asia Cup match when India chased the mere target after reaching 50 without loss by the 8<sup>th<\/sup> over. <\/div>\n<p>&#13;<\/p>\n<div>\u00a0<\/div>\n<p>&#13;<\/p>\n<div>However both Dawan (30) and Sharma (24) were quickly dismissed in the 8<sup>th<\/sup> and 10<sup>th<\/sup> overs, correspondingly. However, when Bilawal Bhatti clean bowled Yuvraj Singh, Pakistan looked like they were getting back in to the martch. <\/div>\n<p>&#13;<\/p>\n<div>\u00a0<\/div>\n<p>&#13;<\/p>\n<div>However, both Virat Kohli and Suresh Raina steadied a very tense middle order. Dropped catches by both Shahid Afridi and Mohammed Hafeez sealed Pakistan\u2019s fate as both batsmen went on to form a dedicated and comfortable partnership of 66. <\/div>\n<p>&#13;<\/p>\n<div>\u00a0<\/div>\n<p>&#13;<\/p>\n<div>During Pakistan\u2019s innings they just barely limped to 130 as their batting line once again collapsed. It was left up to Umar Akmal and Sohaib Maqsood to get the team to a disappointing target. An overall good performance gets India their first win in the T20 World Cup of 2014 whilst Pakistan have a lot of work to do. \u00a0<\/div>\n<p>&#13;<\/p>\n<div>\u00a0<\/div>\n<p>&#13;\n<\/p><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>India Win First T20 Match of Group 2 &#13; With all the emotion and passion that a Pakistan v India match brings, this was definitely a let down. Pakistan\u2019s poor batting led them to a reduced 130 after 20 overs. &#13; \u00a0 &#13; The first match of the group 2 match failed to live up [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":11753,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[27],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-10101","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-sport"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.theasiantoday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10101","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.theasiantoday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.theasiantoday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.theasiantoday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.theasiantoday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=10101"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.theasiantoday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10101\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.theasiantoday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/11753"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.theasiantoday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=10101"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.theasiantoday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=10101"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.theasiantoday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=10101"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}