{"id":34127,"date":"2018-06-14T12:01:18","date_gmt":"2018-06-14T12:01:18","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/punjabnews24.com\/?p=34127"},"modified":"2018-06-14T12:01:18","modified_gmt":"2018-06-14T12:01:18","slug":"slick-pakistan-too-strong-for-scotland-in-t20-rout","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blastingskyhawk.com\/english\/slick-pakistan-too-strong-for-scotland-in-t20-rout\/","title":{"rendered":"Slick Pakistan too strong for Scotland in T20 rout"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Shoaib Malik blasted a quick-fire 49 as Pakistan powered to an 84-run rout of Scotland in the second Twenty20 international on Wednesday.<\/p>\n<p>Malik\u2019s unbeaten innings took just 22 balls and containing five sixes and one four, setting the stage for Pakistan to seal a 2-0 series win.<\/p>\n<p>Fakhar Zaman (33) and Ahmed Shehzad (24) rattled up a 60-run partnership for the first wicket in Edinburgh before Scotland hit back to reduce the tourists to 98-5.<\/p>\n<p>Following on from Sunday\u2019s historic win over England &#8212; the world\u2019s top ranked one-day international side &#8212; Scotland were hoping to claim another big scalp against the number-one ranked T20 nation.<\/p>\n<p>Michael Leask\u2019s three wickets gave Scotland hope, but Shoaib\u2019s brutal hitting kept Pakistan in charge as his side reached 166-6 after their 20 overs.<\/p>\n<p>Scotland had scored 156 in a losing effort in the first T20 clash with Pakistan on Tuesday, but this time they were unable to muster a decent response.<\/p>\n<p>George Munsey was caught for a duck after just two balls and Pakistan made short work of the rest as the Scots finished 82 all out after just 15 overs.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Shoaib Malik blasted a quick-fire 49 as Pakistan powered to an 84-run rout of Scotland in the second Twenty20 international on Wednesday. Malik\u2019s [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":34128,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[122],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-34127","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\/34127","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=34127"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/blastingskyhawk.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/34127\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":34129,"href":"https:\/\/blastingskyhawk.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/34127\/revisions\/34129"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blastingskyhawk.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/34128"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blastingskyhawk.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=34127"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blastingskyhawk.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=34127"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blastingskyhawk.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=34127"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}