{"id":1513,"date":"2015-02-20T08:15:01","date_gmt":"2015-02-20T08:15:01","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/cricbol.com\/blog\/?p=1513"},"modified":"2015-02-20T08:15:01","modified_gmt":"2015-02-20T08:15:01","slug":"new-zealand-skipper-breaks-a-world-cup-record","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/cricbol.com\/blog\/2015\/02\/20\/new-zealand-skipper-breaks-a-world-cup-record\/","title":{"rendered":"New Zealand skipper breaks a World Cup record"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/cricbol.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/02\/mc.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone\" src=\"http:\/\/cricbol.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/02\/mc-300x300.jpg\" alt=\"mc\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p><strong>Today\u2019s records<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>&#8211; Brendon McCullum reached his 50 from 18 deliveries, breaking the New Zealand (19 balls) and World Cup record for the fastest half-century, from just 18 balls. Amazingly, both those records had previously been held by McCullum.<\/p>\n<p>&#8211; McCullum and Martin Guptill combined to take 29 runs from one Steve Finn over \u2013 the third-most ever by a New Zealand pair in ODIs.<\/p>\n<p>&#8211; McCullum now has five ODI half-centuries from 21 balls or less \u2013 a number bettered by only Paksitani Shahid Afridi, with nine.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Today\u2019s records &#8211; Brendon McCullum reached his 50 from 18 deliveries, breaking the New Zealand (19 balls) and World Cup record for the fastest half-century, from just 18 balls. Amazingly, both those records had previously been held by McCullum. &#8211; McCullum and Martin Guptill combined to take 29 runs from one Steve Finn over \u2013 [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1815,"featured_media":1514,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[70,8],"tags":[286,229,115,353,334],"class_list":["post-1513","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-featured","category-interesting-stories","tag-brendon-mccullum","tag-england-vs-new-zealand","tag-new-zealand","tag-world-cup","tag-world-cup-2015"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/cricbol.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1513","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/cricbol.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/cricbol.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cricbol.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1815"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cricbol.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1513"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/cricbol.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1513\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1515,"href":"https:\/\/cricbol.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1513\/revisions\/1515"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cricbol.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1514"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/cricbol.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1513"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cricbol.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1513"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cricbol.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1513"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}