{"id":6398,"date":"2020-12-07T06:55:15","date_gmt":"2020-12-07T07:55:15","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/sportinfo.pro\/?p=6398"},"modified":"2020-12-07T08:03:28","modified_gmt":"2020-12-07T08:03:28","slug":"nz-skipper-williamson-might-miss-matches-against-pakistan","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sportinfo.pro\/?p=6398","title":{"rendered":"NZ skipper Williamson might miss matches against Pakistan"},"content":{"rendered":"<div style=\"margin: 5px 5% 10px 5%\"><img loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/arysports.tv\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/05\/Williamson.jpg\" width=\"742\" height=\"486\" title=\"\" alt=\"\" \/><\/div>\n<div>\n<p><strong>Karachi: New Zealand skipper Kane Williamson might miss the upcoming second Test against West Indies and matches against Pakistan as his partner\u00a0Sarah Raheem is due to give birth in mid-to-late December.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>The 30-year-old Williamson also confirmed it last Friday while talking to reporters. He said\u00a0that he would make a decision on whether to miss matches closer to the time of the birth of his first child.<\/p>\n<p>Meanwhile, Kiwis coach Gary Stead has said that the team has no concerns if he chooses to take paternity leave.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWorst case scenario Kane misses some matches. As a dad, as a parent, you only get that opportunity once in your life to be there for your (first) child\u2019s birth and I know that it\u2019s important for Kane too,&#8221; Stead told reporters after New Zealand defeated West Indies by an innings and 134 runs in the first Test.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cAt the end of the day we play cricket and other things are much more important and that is much more important,\u201d he added.<\/p>\n<p>It must be noted that the second West Indies Test starts at Wellington\u2019s Basin Reserve on Friday, December 11 while the three-match T20I series starts\u00a0from December 18 and then two Tests that begin on December 26.<\/p>\n<h3><strong>Read:\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/arysports.tv\/new-zealand-wrap-up-record-win-over-west-indies-first-test\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">New Zealand wrap up record win over West Indies in first test<\/a><\/strong><\/h3>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<div class=\"mh-excerpt\"><p>Karachi: New Zealand skipper Kane Williamson might miss the upcoming second Test against West Indies and matches against Pakistan as his partner\u00a0Sarah Raheem is due <a class=\"mh-excerpt-more\" href=\"https:\/\/sportinfo.pro\/?p=6398\" title=\"NZ skipper Williamson might miss matches against Pakistan\">[&#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\/6398"}],"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=6398"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/sportinfo.pro\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6398\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":6400,"href":"https:\/\/sportinfo.pro\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6398\/revisions\/6400"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sportinfo.pro\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=6398"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sportinfo.pro\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=6398"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sportinfo.pro\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=6398"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}