{"id":113087,"date":"2021-08-07T08:05:04","date_gmt":"2021-08-07T08:05:04","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/sportinfo.pro\/?p=113087"},"modified":"2021-08-07T09:01:56","modified_gmt":"2021-08-07T09:01:56","slug":"rawalakot-hawks-beat-mirpur-royals-by-43-runs-in-kpl-2021-opener","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sportinfo.pro\/?p=113087","title":{"rendered":"Rawalakot Hawks beat Mirpur Royals by 43 runs in KPL 2021 opener"},"content":{"rendered":"<div style=\"margin: 5px 5% 10px 5%\"><img loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/arysports.tv\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/08\/Rawalakot.jpg\" width=\"742\" height=\"486\" title=\"\" alt=\"\" \/><\/div>\n<div>\n<p><strong>Muzaffarabad: Shahid Afridi-led Rawalakot Hawks defeated Mirpur Royals by 43 runs in the first fixture of the first edition of the Kashmir Premier League (KPL) on Friday.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Hawks posted a big target after Royals&#8217; captain Shoaib Malik opted to bowl first. Ahmed Shahzad smashed 69 off 42 balls followed by Bismillah Khan who scored 59 off 34 balls. Afridi stroked 16 off five balls.<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"550\" data-dnt=\"true\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">Rawalakot Hawks won the first match of <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/hashtag\/SRGKPL?src=hash&amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">#SRGKPL<\/a> by defeating Mirpur Royals by 43 runs.<a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/hashtag\/KheloAazadiSe?src=hash&amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">#KheloAazadiSe<\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/hashtag\/KPL21?src=hash&amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">#KPL21<\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/aDNVg6NjF8\">pic.twitter.com\/aDNVg6NjF8<\/a><\/p>\n<p>&mdash; Kashmir Premier League (Official) (@kpl_20) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/kpl_20\/status\/1423898203196465152?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">August 7, 2021<\/a><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>For Royals, Amad Butt bagged three wickets for 20 runs while Salman Irshad took two and Khushdil Shah claimed one.<\/p>\n<p>Mirpur Royals were 43 runs short of the target but Malik hit 74 runs off 50 balls, followed by Amad who could score 22 runs off 15 deliveries. Hawks&#8217; Zaman Khan, Asif Afridi and Afridi got two wickets apiece.<\/p>\n<p>It must be noted that before the start of the match, a glittering opening ceremony took place.<\/p>\n<p>Remember, the competition will conclude on August 17. All matches will be played at Muzaffarabad Cricket Stadium.<\/p>\n<p>The franchises participating are Rawalakot Hawks, Kotli Lions, Mirpur Royals, Muzaffarabad Tigers, Overseas Warriors, and Bagh Stallions.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<div class=\"mh-excerpt\"><p>Muzaffarabad: Shahid Afridi-led Rawalakot Hawks defeated Mirpur Royals by 43 runs in the first fixture of the first edition of the Kashmir Premier League (KPL) <a class=\"mh-excerpt-more\" href=\"https:\/\/sportinfo.pro\/?p=113087\" title=\"Rawalakot Hawks beat Mirpur Royals by 43 runs in KPL 2021 opener\">[&#8230;]<\/a><\/p>\n<\/div>","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[1],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/sportinfo.pro\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/113087"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/sportinfo.pro\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/sportinfo.pro\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sportinfo.pro\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sportinfo.pro\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=113087"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/sportinfo.pro\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/113087\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":113089,"href":"https:\/\/sportinfo.pro\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/113087\/revisions\/113089"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sportinfo.pro\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=113087"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sportinfo.pro\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=113087"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sportinfo.pro\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=113087"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}