{"id":96942,"date":"2021-07-08T11:43:51","date_gmt":"2021-07-08T11:43:51","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/sportinfo.pro\/?p=96942"},"modified":"2021-07-08T11:57:39","modified_gmt":"2021-07-08T11:57:39","slug":"live-england-put-pakistan-into-bat-first-in-odi-series-opener","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sportinfo.pro\/?p=96942","title":{"rendered":"Live: England put Pakistan into bat first in ODI series opener"},"content":{"rendered":"<div style=\"margin: 5px 5% 10px 5%\"><img loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/arysports.tv\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/07\/engvpak.jpg\" width=\"742\" height=\"486\" title=\"\" alt=\"\" \/><\/div>\n<div>\n<p><strong>Cardiff: England&#8217;s skipper Ben Stokes has won the toss and opted to bowl first against Pakistan in the ODI series opener at Sophia Gardens.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>The hosts have handed debut caps to five individuals while Saud Shakeel makes debut for Green Shirts.<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"550\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">1st ODI UPDATE: England win the toss and decide to field<a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/hashtag\/HarHaalMainCricket?src=hash&amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">#HarHaalMainCricket<\/a> | <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/hashtag\/BackTheBoysInGreen?src=hash&amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">#BackTheBoysInGreen<\/a> | <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/hashtag\/ENGvPAK?src=hash&amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">#ENGvPAK<\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/jnfNvrGALE\">pic.twitter.com\/jnfNvrGALE<\/a><\/p>\n<p>&mdash; Pakistan Cricket Live (@TheRealPCB_Live) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/TheRealPCB_Live\/status\/1413100614834343939?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">July 8, 2021<\/a><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>&#8220;We&#8217;re a successful team bowling, so just because we&#8217;ve got a changed team, we&#8217;re not going to change our ways. A strange situation, but to pick a team of this calibre shows we&#8217;re in a good place,&#8221; Stokes said after winning the toss.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;We are looking forward to it, we are not worried about match practice, we&#8217;ve had ten days in Derby and played two to three practice matches,&#8221; Babar opined.<\/p>\n<p><strong>England:<\/strong>\u00a0Phil Salt, Dawid Malan, Zak Crawley, James Vince, Ben Stokes (capt), John Simpson (wk) Lewis Gregory, Craig Overton, Brydon Carse, Saqib Mahmood, Matt Parkinson<\/p>\n<p><b>Pakistan:\u00a0<\/b>Fakhar Zaman, Imam-ul-Haq, Babar Azam (capt), Mohammad Rizwan (wk), Saud Shakeel, Sohaib Maqsood, Shadab Khan, Faheem Ashraf, Hasan Ali, Shaheen Shah Afridi, Haris Rauf<\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<div class=\"mh-excerpt\"><p>Cardiff: England&#8217;s skipper Ben Stokes has won the toss and opted to bowl first against Pakistan in the ODI series opener at Sophia Gardens. The <a class=\"mh-excerpt-more\" href=\"https:\/\/sportinfo.pro\/?p=96942\" title=\"Live: England put Pakistan into bat first in ODI 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\/96942"}],"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=96942"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/sportinfo.pro\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/96942\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":96944,"href":"https:\/\/sportinfo.pro\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/96942\/revisions\/96944"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sportinfo.pro\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=96942"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sportinfo.pro\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=96942"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sportinfo.pro\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=96942"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}