{"id":26909,"date":"2018-04-04T11:39:16","date_gmt":"2018-04-04T11:39:16","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/punjabnews24.com\/?p=26909"},"modified":"2018-04-04T11:39:16","modified_gmt":"2018-04-04T11:39:16","slug":"pakistan-beat-west-indies-by-eight-wickets-clinch-t20-series-3-0","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blastingskyhawk.com\/english\/pakistan-beat-west-indies-by-eight-wickets-clinch-t20-series-3-0\/","title":{"rendered":"Pakistan beat West Indies by eight wickets, clinch T20 series 3-0"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Top-ranked Pakistan swept West Indies 3-0 in their Twenty20 series with another thumping eight-wicket victory in the last match on Tuesday.<\/p>\n<p>Pakistan rode Babar Azam\u2019s (51) second successive half century and Fakhar Zaman\u2019s 40 off 17 balls to reach 154-2 in 16.5 overs.<\/p>\n<p>West Indies, batting first for the first time in the series, had earlier scored 153-6 after its captain Jason Mohammed won the toss.<\/p>\n<p>Pakistan continued to dominate a weakened West Indies bowling with its opening pair Azam and Zaman putting on 61 runs off only 32 balls.<\/p>\n<p>West Indies opener Andre Fletcher earlier scored 52 off 43 balls and Denesh Ramdin provided late acceleration with a robust 42 off just 18 balls which gave the tourists their best total in the series.<\/p>\n<p>West Indies lost the first match by a massive 143 runs before losing the second game by 82 runs, when Pakistan posted its highest ever Twenty20 score of 205-5.<\/p>\n<!-- AddThis Advanced Settings generic via filter on the_content --><!-- AddThis Share Buttons generic via filter on the_content -->","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Top-ranked Pakistan swept West Indies 3-0 in their Twenty20 series with another thumping eight-wicket victory in the last match on Tuesday. Pakistan rode Babar Azam\u2019s (51) second successive half century and Fakhar Zaman\u2019s 40 off 17 balls to reach 154-2 in 16.5 overs. West Indies, batting first for the first time in the series, had [&hellip;]<!-- AddThis Advanced Settings generic via filter on get_the_excerpt --><!-- AddThis Share Buttons generic via filter on get_the_excerpt --><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":26910,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"inline_featured_image":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[122],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-26909","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blastingskyhawk.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/26909","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blastingskyhawk.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blastingskyhawk.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blastingskyhawk.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blastingskyhawk.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=26909"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/blastingskyhawk.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/26909\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":26911,"href":"https:\/\/blastingskyhawk.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/26909\/revisions\/26911"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blastingskyhawk.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/26910"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blastingskyhawk.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=26909"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blastingskyhawk.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=26909"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blastingskyhawk.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=26909"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}