{"id":15007,"date":"2020-12-28T23:29:38","date_gmt":"2020-12-29T00:29:38","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/sportinfo.pro\/?p=15007"},"modified":"2020-12-29T01:05:22","modified_gmt":"2020-12-29T01:05:22","slug":"solid-start-by-latham-blundell-as-new-zealand-stretches-lead-to-290","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sportinfo.pro\/?p=15007","title":{"rendered":"Solid start by Latham, Blundell as New Zealand stretches lead to 290"},"content":{"rendered":"<div style=\"margin: 5px 5% 10px 5%\"><img loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/arysports.tv\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/12\/Tom-Blundell.jpg\" width=\"742\" height=\"486\" title=\"\" alt=\"\" \/><\/div>\n<div>\n<p><strong>Mount Maunganui:\u00a0Tom Blundell and Tom Latham stretched New Zealand&#8217;s lead to 290 during a wicketless first session on day four against Pakistan at Bay Oval.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Blundell registered his second Test fifty of his Test career and is batting at 59 while Kiwis&#8217; vice-captain Latham is at 36. Pakistan used six bowling options including Shan Masood but was unable to get a breakthrough.<\/p>\n<p>New Zealand will now look to press up the scoring rate in order to provide bowlers maximum overs to bowl Pakistan out in the second innings.<\/p>\n<p>It must be noted Pakistan bowled out for 239 in reply to New Zealand&#8217;s first-inning total of 431.<\/p>\n<h3><strong>Read:\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/arysports.tv\/southee-strikes-twice-pakistan-experience-mini-collapse\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\"> Faheem, Rizwan resist as Pakistan averts first inning follow-on<\/a><\/strong><\/h3>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<div class=\"mh-excerpt\"><p>Mount Maunganui:\u00a0Tom Blundell and Tom Latham stretched New Zealand&#8217;s lead to 290 during a wicketless first session on day four against Pakistan at Bay Oval. <a class=\"mh-excerpt-more\" href=\"https:\/\/sportinfo.pro\/?p=15007\" title=\"Solid start by Latham, Blundell as New Zealand stretches lead to 290\">[&#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\/15007"}],"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=15007"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/sportinfo.pro\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15007\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":15009,"href":"https:\/\/sportinfo.pro\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15007\/revisions\/15009"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sportinfo.pro\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=15007"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sportinfo.pro\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=15007"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sportinfo.pro\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=15007"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}