{"id":14148,"date":"2020-12-26T21:07:10","date_gmt":"2020-12-26T22:07:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/sportinfo.pro\/?p=14148"},"modified":"2020-12-26T23:04:19","modified_gmt":"2020-12-26T23:04:19","slug":"pakvnz-williamson-scores-23rd-hundred-as-new-zealand-post-250-3","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sportinfo.pro\/?p=14148","title":{"rendered":"PAKvNZ: Williamson scores 23rd hundred as New Zealand post 250-3"},"content":{"rendered":"<div style=\"margin: 5px 5% 10px 5%\"><img loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/arysports.tv\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/12\/Williamson-1.jpg\" width=\"742\" height=\"486\" title=\"\" alt=\"\" \/><\/div>\n<div>\n<p><strong>MOUNT MAUNGANUI: Henry Nicholls brought up his 10th fifty quickly on Day 2 as New Zealand reached 231-3 in the first inning on Day 2 of the opening Test. <\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Kane Williamson (89*) and Nicholls (42*) resumed the second day at 222-4.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Day 1 Report:<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Skipper Kane Williamson\u2019s unbeaten 94 steered New Zealand to 222-3 in front of an organized Pakistani attack on Day One of the first Test at Bay Oval on Saturday.<\/p>\n<p>Williamson alongside Ross Taylor had a good time at the crease as the right-handed duo consolidated for 120 runs together for a third-wicket partnership. The duo rescued the hosts at 13-2 after Shaheen Shah Afridi picked up two early wickets.<\/p>\n<p>Taylor struck 10 boundaries and a six to score 70 runs off 151 balls.\u00a0Henry Nicholls was the other batter who made an 89-runs partnership with his skipper. He remained not out for 42 at stumps alongside Williamson.<\/p>\n<p>Earlier, Afridi removed openers Tom Latham and Tom Blundell in quick successions to reduce New Zealand to 13-2. Shaheen came back for another spell and removed Taylor to provide a much-needed breakthrough after Tea.<\/p>\n<p>The 20-year-old Afridi finished with 3-55 at the end of the opening day while veteran Mohammad Abbas\u00a0conceded only 25 runs off his 21 overs.<\/p>\n<p>It must be noted that Pakistan is without\u00a0regular Test captain Babar Azam, opener Imamul Haq and all-rounder Shadab Khan in this Test.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<div class=\"mh-excerpt\"><p>MOUNT MAUNGANUI: Henry Nicholls brought up his 10th fifty quickly on Day 2 as New Zealand reached 231-3 in the first inning on Day 2 <a class=\"mh-excerpt-more\" href=\"https:\/\/sportinfo.pro\/?p=14148\" title=\"PAKvNZ: Williamson scores 23rd hundred as New Zealand post 250-3\">[&#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\/14148"}],"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=14148"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/sportinfo.pro\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14148\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":14150,"href":"https:\/\/sportinfo.pro\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14148\/revisions\/14150"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sportinfo.pro\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=14148"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sportinfo.pro\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=14148"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sportinfo.pro\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=14148"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}