{"id":17736,"date":"2021-01-04T05:12:09","date_gmt":"2021-01-04T06:12:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/sportinfo.pro\/?p=17736"},"modified":"2021-01-04T06:26:12","modified_gmt":"2021-01-04T06:26:12","slug":"williamson-nicholls-take-strong-position-for-new-zealand-in-second-test","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sportinfo.pro\/?p=17736","title":{"rendered":"Williamson, Nicholls take strong position for New Zealand in second Test"},"content":{"rendered":"<div style=\"margin: 5px 5% 10px 5%\"><img loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/arysports.tv\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/01\/Nicholls.jpg\" width=\"742\" height=\"486\" title=\"\" alt=\"\" \/><\/div>\n<div>\n<p><strong>Christchurch: Skipper Kane Williamson and his partner Henry Nicholls put up a strong 215-runs partnership as New Zealand scored 286-3 with just 11 runs behind at stumps on Day 3 of the second Test against Pakistan.\u00a0<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Williamson scored his first Test century at Christchurch and took his partner Nicholls alongside him after joining hands at 71-3. The right-handed batsman remained not out for 112 off 175 balls with 16 boundaries in his account.<\/p>\n<p>Whereas, Nicholls supported his captain throughout and remained not out for 89 off 186 balls laced with eight boundaries.<\/p>\n<p>Starting their batting in reply to Pakistan&#8217;s 297-10, New Zealand got a steady start by openers Tom Latham (33) and Tom Blundell (16) who scored 52 runs together. But, both fell in quick successions to leave New Zealand tottering at 52-2.<\/p>\n<p>Ross Taylor tried to support the hosts but couldn&#8217;t continue for long and fell to Mohammad Abbas after scoring 12.<\/p>\n<p>Later on, Williamson and Nicholls absorbed all the pressure and stayed at the crease till day&#8217;s end.<\/p>\n<p>Shaheen Shah Afridi, Abbas, and Faheem Ashraf bagged a wicket each for Pakistan.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<div class=\"mh-excerpt\"><p>Christchurch: Skipper Kane Williamson and his partner Henry Nicholls put up a strong 215-runs partnership as New Zealand scored 286-3 with just 11 runs behind <a class=\"mh-excerpt-more\" href=\"https:\/\/sportinfo.pro\/?p=17736\" title=\"Williamson, Nicholls take strong position for New Zealand in second 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\/17736"}],"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=17736"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/sportinfo.pro\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17736\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":17738,"href":"https:\/\/sportinfo.pro\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17736\/revisions\/17738"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sportinfo.pro\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=17736"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sportinfo.pro\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=17736"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sportinfo.pro\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=17736"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}