{"id":13361,"date":"2020-12-24T10:31:00","date_gmt":"2020-12-24T11:31:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/sportinfo.pro\/?p=13361"},"modified":"2020-12-24T12:04:03","modified_gmt":"2020-12-24T12:04:03","slug":"contest-will-be-even-against-nz-rizwan-upbeat-ahead-of-first-test","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sportinfo.pro\/?p=13361","title":{"rendered":"\u2018Contest will be even against NZ\u2019 Rizwan upbeat ahead of first Test"},"content":{"rendered":"<div style=\"margin: 5px 5% 10px 5%\"><img loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/arysports.tv\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/12\/Mohammad-Rizwan-2.jpg\" width=\"742\" height=\"486\" title=\"\" alt=\"\" \/><\/div>\n<div>\n<p><strong>Karachi:\u00a0Pakistan stand-in captain Mohammad Rizwan thinks that the contest will be even in the upcoming first Test against a quality New Zealand side.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Pakistan Test squad reached Tauranga yesterday and trained at Mount Maunganui today for four hours as they are scheduled to play the Boxing Day Test at the same venue.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;We practiced for such a long session to gel together as most of our players were in Shaheens and some were playing T20Is,&#8221; Rizwan said.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Our players looked in a great rhythm and all our batters and bowlers have performances to their back. The contest will be challenging and even against New Zealand,&#8221; he added.<\/p>\n<p>The 28-year-old Rizwan was in awe of regular captain Babar Azam, who has been helping the players in the sessions while recovering from a thumb injury.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Babar Bhai has been really supportive throughout even with an injured thumb. He is helping every player, guiding and sharing experience since the T20I series,&#8221; he added.<\/p>\n<p>He concluded by saying that the plan is simple going into the Test series and a win in the last T20I has given confidence to the team.<\/p>\n<h3><strong>Read more:\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/arysports.tv\/williamson-special-play-boxing-test-home-town\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">NZvPAK: Williamson feels special to play Boxing Day Test in his home town<\/a><\/strong><\/h3>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<div class=\"mh-excerpt\"><p>Karachi:\u00a0Pakistan stand-in captain Mohammad Rizwan thinks that the contest will be even in the upcoming first Test against a quality New Zealand side. Pakistan Test <a class=\"mh-excerpt-more\" href=\"https:\/\/sportinfo.pro\/?p=13361\" title=\"\u2018Contest will be even against NZ\u2019 Rizwan upbeat ahead of first Test\">[&#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\/13361"}],"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=13361"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/sportinfo.pro\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13361\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":13363,"href":"https:\/\/sportinfo.pro\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13361\/revisions\/13363"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sportinfo.pro\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=13361"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sportinfo.pro\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=13361"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sportinfo.pro\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=13361"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}