{"id":33740,"date":"2021-02-11T11:47:46","date_gmt":"2021-02-11T12:47:46","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/sportinfo.pro\/?p=33740"},"modified":"2021-02-11T13:08:41","modified_gmt":"2021-02-11T13:08:41","slug":"live-babar-rizwan-to-open-innings-as-sa-put-pakistan-to-bat-first-in-series-opener","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sportinfo.pro\/?p=33740","title":{"rendered":"Live: Babar, Rizwan to open innings as SA put Pakistan to bat first in series opener"},"content":{"rendered":"<div style=\"margin: 5px 5% 10px 5%\"><img loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/arysports.tv\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/02\/Babar-and-Rizwan.jpg\" width=\"742\" height=\"486\" title=\"\" alt=\"\" \/><\/div>\n<div>\n<p><strong>Lahore: South Africa&#8217;s captain Heinrich Klassen has won and decided to bat first against Pakistan in the T20I series opener.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Klassen revealed the decision to ball first has been taken as the due will play a huge part later in the night. &#8220;During practice session, there was lot of due and hopefully bowl will skit on later.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Meanwhile, Pakistan skipper Babar Azam clarified who will open the innings for Pakistan. &#8220;I&#8217;ll be batting at my spot and Mohammad Rizwan will open the innings alongside me.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p><b>Pakistan:<\/b>\u00a0 Babar Azam (capt), Haider Ali, Hussain Talat, Iftikhar Ahmed, Khushdil Shah, Mohammad Rizwan (wk), Mohammad Nawaz, Faheem Ashraf, Usman Qadir, Shaheen Shah Afridi, Haris Rauf<\/p>\n<p><b>South Africa:<\/b>\u00a0Janneman Malan, Reeza Hendricks, Jacques Snyman, Heinrich Klaasen (capt &amp;wk), David Miller, Dwaine Pretorius, Andile Phehlukwayo, Bjorn Fortuin, Junior Dala, Lutho Sipamla 11 Tabraiz Shamsi<\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<div class=\"mh-excerpt\"><p>Lahore: South Africa&#8217;s captain Heinrich Klassen has won and decided to bat first against Pakistan in the T20I series opener. Klassen revealed the decision to <a class=\"mh-excerpt-more\" href=\"https:\/\/sportinfo.pro\/?p=33740\" title=\"Live: Babar, Rizwan to open innings as SA put Pakistan to bat first in series opener\">[&#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\/33740"}],"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=33740"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/sportinfo.pro\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/33740\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":33742,"href":"https:\/\/sportinfo.pro\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/33740\/revisions\/33742"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sportinfo.pro\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=33740"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sportinfo.pro\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=33740"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sportinfo.pro\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=33740"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}