{"id":2783,"date":"2017-08-23T10:53:47","date_gmt":"2017-08-23T10:53:47","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/punjabnews24.com\/?p=2783"},"modified":"2017-08-23T10:53:47","modified_gmt":"2017-08-23T10:53:47","slug":"nairs-90-helps-india-a-clinch-series-levelling-win-in-south-africa","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blastingskyhawk.com\/english\/nairs-90-helps-india-a-clinch-series-levelling-win-in-south-africa\/","title":{"rendered":"Nair\u2019s 90 helps India A clinch series-levelling win in South Africa"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Potchefstroom,<br \/>\nSkipper Karun Nair anchored a tricky chase with a polished 90 as India A beat South Africa A by six wickets in the second Test to level the two-match series 1-1.<\/p>\n<p>Chasing a target of 224, India A took 62.3 overs to cross the line as Nair got rid of his wretched form, hitting 13 boundaries in his 144-ball knock. Opener Ravikumar Samarth (55) hit his second half-century of the match and added crucial 74 runs for the third wicket with Nair.<\/p>\n<p>The 93-run stand for the fourth wicket between Nair and Ankit Bawne (32) sealed the game for India. When Nair was finally dismissed, India needed just two runs for victory.<\/p>\n<p>It\u2019s the bowlers, however, who deserve more credit for setting up the victory as they dismissed South Africa for just 177 runs in their second innings. Right-arm pacer Ankit Rajpoot (3\/15) and left-arm spinner Shahbaz Nadeem (3\/47) were the most successful bowlers for India.<\/p>\n<p>Brief scores: South Africa A: 322 and 177 (S Cook 70; S Nadeem 3\/47, A Rajpoot 3\/15); India A: 276 and 226\/4 (K Nair 90, R Samarth 55).<\/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>Potchefstroom, Skipper Karun Nair anchored a tricky chase with a polished 90 as India A beat South Africa A by six wickets in the second Test to level the two-match series 1-1. Chasing a target of 224, India A took 62.3 overs to cross the line as Nair got rid of his wretched form, hitting [&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":2784,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"inline_featured_image":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[122],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2783","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\/2783","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=2783"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/blastingskyhawk.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2783\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2785,"href":"https:\/\/blastingskyhawk.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2783\/revisions\/2785"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blastingskyhawk.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2784"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blastingskyhawk.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2783"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blastingskyhawk.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2783"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blastingskyhawk.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2783"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}