{"id":2056,"date":"2015-03-07T08:52:24","date_gmt":"2015-03-07T08:52:24","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/cricbol.com\/blog\/?p=2056"},"modified":"2015-03-10T09:08:16","modified_gmt":"2015-03-10T09:08:16","slug":"not-so-soon-to-quarterfinals","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/cricbol.com\/blog\/2015\/03\/07\/not-so-soon-to-quarterfinals\/","title":{"rendered":"Not so soon to Quarterfinals\u2026"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/cricbol.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/03\/11033137_10152571709812132_680635061_o.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" class=\" aligncenter\" src=\"http:\/\/cricbol.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/03\/11033137_10152571709812132_680635061_o-200x300.jpg\" alt=\"11033137_10152571709812132_680635061_o\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<h2 style=\"text-align: center;\">Pakistan v\/s South Africa<\/h2>\n<p>South Africa faced Pakistan today at Auckland, New Zealand where the Proteas managed to win the toss but not the match!<\/p>\n<p>When the two greens (SA and PAK jersey colour is green) had come on the field, probably everyone had anticipated that South Africa will have a smoothly finishing win and will become the second team from Pool B to reach the quarterfinals. Pakistan\u2019s Boom-boom man Shahid Afridi after a long time, started hitting all over the field and somehow managed to take his team\u2019s score to 222 runs in46.4 overs (all out) when the rains took over and the match was reduced to 47 overs. Captain Misbah-Ul-Haq hit a half century and as usual his contribution was valuable to the team.<\/p>\n<p>Nobody must have expected that South Africa will lose all their wickets and thereby lose the match at the score of 202 runs in 33.3 overs! Surprisingly AB Deviller\u2019s struggle of 77 runs went in vain when the captain finally got out to bowler Sohail Khan. Pakistan\u2019s Wahab Riaz took 3 wickets and helped to boost the chances of Pakistan\u2019s victory. Waves of happiness have now conquered the hearts of Pakistani fans as they now have a reason to cheer up after their teams poor beginning in this time\u2019s Cricket World Cup (CWC).<\/p>\n<p>Pakistan had last played South Africa in a World Cup in 1999. They met after 15 years to post their 1<sup>st<\/sup> win versus the Proteas in 4 games.<\/p>\n<p>This match also showed that winning the toss does not always lead to winning the match. And in the chaos of scoring 300 plus target isn\u2019t always necessary to score a victory. Sarfaraz Ahmed (wicketkeeper who got run-out) of Pakistan became Man of The Match for scoring a splendid 49 runs in 49 balls who smashed 3 huge sixes and 5 boundaries.<\/p>\n<p>Author &#8211;\u00a0<i>Disha Mashelkar<\/i><\/p>\n<p>This Article was first published on &#8211;\u00a0http:\/\/dishamashelkar.blogspot.in\/2015\/03\/not-so-soon-to-quarterfinals.html<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Pakistan v\/s South Africa South Africa faced Pakistan today at Auckland, New Zealand where the Proteas managed to win the toss but not the match! When the two greens (SA and PAK jersey colour is green) had come on the field, probably everyone had anticipated that South Africa will have a smoothly finishing win and [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1815,"featured_media":2059,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[70,8],"tags":[109,359,158,334],"class_list":["post-2056","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-featured","category-interesting-stories","tag-pakistan","tag-savpak","tag-south-africa","tag-world-cup-2015"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/cricbol.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2056","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=2056"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/cricbol.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2056\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2060,"href":"https:\/\/cricbol.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2056\/revisions\/2060"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cricbol.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2059"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/cricbol.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2056"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cricbol.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2056"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cricbol.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2056"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}