{"id":13268,"date":"2020-12-24T06:25:18","date_gmt":"2020-12-24T07:25:18","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/sportinfo.pro\/?p=13268"},"modified":"2020-12-24T08:07:19","modified_gmt":"2020-12-24T08:07:19","slug":"southee-believes-pakistan-will-be-a-tough-challenge-in-test-series","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sportinfo.pro\/?p=13268","title":{"rendered":"Southee believes Pakistan will be a tough challenge in Test series"},"content":{"rendered":"<div style=\"margin: 5px 5% 10px 5%\"><img loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/arysports.tv\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/12\/Tim-Southee.jpg\" width=\"742\" height=\"486\" title=\"\" alt=\"\" \/><\/div>\n<div>\n<p><strong>Karachi: Veteran New Zealand pacer Tim Southee thinks that Pakistan is a quality opponent and will be a tough challenge in the upcoming Tests compared to the West Indies.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Blackcaps clean sweep Windies in the two-match Test series and now they are gearing up to take on Pakistan in\u00a0Mount Maunganui and Christchurch.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;I think the Pakistan side is a quality side. They have an exciting bowling attack, they offer different challenges to what the West Indies did,&#8221; Southee was quoted by NZ Herald.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;They&#8217;re obviously missing a couple of experienced guys through thumb injuries in that first test, but I&#8217;m sure it presents an opportunity for another couple of guys to step up,&#8221; he added.<\/p>\n<p>It must be noted that recently New Zealand defeated Green Shirts in the three-match series by 2-1. Action now shifts to red-ball cricket as the first Test is scheduled to start on December 26.<\/p>\n<h3><strong><a href=\"https:\/\/arysports.tv\/babar-imam-starts-lbat-gripping-training\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Watch: Babar Azam, Imam-ul-Haq start bat gripping training<\/a><\/strong><\/h3>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<div class=\"mh-excerpt\"><p>Karachi: Veteran New Zealand pacer Tim Southee thinks that Pakistan is a quality opponent and will be a tough challenge in the upcoming Tests compared <a class=\"mh-excerpt-more\" href=\"https:\/\/sportinfo.pro\/?p=13268\" title=\"Southee believes Pakistan will be a tough challenge in Test series\">[&#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\/13268"}],"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=13268"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/sportinfo.pro\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13268\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":13270,"href":"https:\/\/sportinfo.pro\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13268\/revisions\/13270"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sportinfo.pro\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=13268"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sportinfo.pro\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=13268"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sportinfo.pro\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=13268"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}