{"id":713,"date":"2013-09-08T20:40:13","date_gmt":"2013-09-08T20:40:13","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/cricbol.com\/blog\/?p=713"},"modified":"2013-09-08T20:40:13","modified_gmt":"2013-09-08T20:40:13","slug":"pakistan-spins-a-victory-over-zimbabwe-concerns-for-underprepared-pitch-clark-hits-a-century-australia-defeat-england-india-a-defeat-new-zealand-a","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/cricbol.com\/blog\/2013\/09\/08\/pakistan-spins-a-victory-over-zimbabwe-concerns-for-underprepared-pitch-clark-hits-a-century-australia-defeat-england-india-a-defeat-new-zealand-a\/","title":{"rendered":"Pakistan spins a victory over Zimbabwe; Concerns for Underprepared pitch; Clark hits a century, Australia defeat England; India A defeat New Zealand A"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>[dropshadowbox effect=&#8221;horizontal-curve-bottom&#8221; rounded_corners=&#8221;false&#8221; width=&#8221;99%&#8221; height=&#8221;140px&#8221;]<\/p>\n<h2><a title=\"Pakistan defeats Zimbabwe in final day of Cricket Test Match\" href=\"http:\/\/in.reuters.com\/article\/2013\/09\/07\/cricket-pakistan-idINL4N0H306K20130907\" target=\"_blank\">Pakistan spinners crushed Zimbabwe to register a victory on the final day<\/a><\/h2>\n<p>Saeed Ajmal, the\u00a0Pakistan off-spinner claimed 11 wickets for 118 in the first test with Zimbabwe, as Zimbabwe collapsed to 120 all out before lunch on the final day of the test in Harare on Saturday to lose by 221 runs.<\/p>\n<p>[\/dropshadowbox]<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>[dropshadowbox effect=&#8221;horizontal-curve-bottom&#8221; rounded_corners=&#8221;false&#8221; width=&#8221;99%&#8221; height=&#8221;160px&#8221;]<\/p>\n<h2><a title=\"Pakistan and Zimbabwe are concerned for the quality of pitch due to short time available for pitch preparation\" href=\"http:\/\/www.espncricinfo.com\/zimbabwe-v-pakistan-2013\/content\/story\/669459.html\" target=\"_blank\">Too short time for preparation of pitch &#8211; Pakistan and Zimbabwe concerned<\/a><\/h2>\n<p>Pakistan and Zimbabwe are concerned for the quality of the pitch for the second test scheduled to start on the coming Tuesday, due to short time available for it&#8217;s preparation. The match venue has been moved to the same as the first test and this leaves a very short period for the preparation of the pitch. Spinners will get a even bigger role this time around it seems.<\/p>\n<p>[\/dropshadowbox]<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>[dropshadowbox effect=&#8221;horizontal-curve-bottom&#8221; rounded_corners=&#8221;false&#8221; width=&#8221;99%&#8221; height=&#8221;130px&#8221;]<\/p>\n<h2><a title=\"England give a tough target to Australia during the second one-day internaltion (ODI)\" href=\"http:\/\/uk.reuters.com\/article\/2013\/09\/08\/cricket-australia-idUKL3N0H407520130908\" target=\"_blank\">Clark hits a century, Australia give a tough target to England<\/a><\/h2>\n<p>Michael Clarke, the Australia captain\u00a0hit 105 runs as they set a target of 316 to win for\u00a0England during the second one-day international at Old Trafford on Sunday.<\/p>\n<p>[\/dropshadowbox]<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>[dropshadowbox effect=&#8221;horizontal-curve-bottom&#8221; rounded_corners=&#8221;false&#8221; width=&#8221;99%&#8221; height=&#8221;130px&#8221;]<\/p>\n<h2><a title=\"Australia defeated England in the second one-day international helped by Clark's century and the massive total of 316 runs\" href=\"http:\/\/in.reuters.com\/article\/2013\/09\/08\/cricket-australia-idINL3N0H407E20130908\" target=\"_blank\">Australia defeat England by 88 runs<\/a><\/h2>\n<p>Australia registered a massive victory over England by defeating them by 88 runs helped by the century made by Michael Clarke.<\/p>\n<p>[\/dropshadowbox]<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>[dropshadowbox effect=&#8221;horizontal-curve-bottom&#8221; rounded_corners=&#8221;false&#8221; width=&#8221;99%&#8221; height=&#8221;130px&#8221;]<\/p>\n<h2><a title=\"India A defeat New Zealand by 6 wickets\" href=\"http:\/\/www.espncricinfo.com\/india\/content\/story\/669481.html\" target=\"_blank\">Powered by Uthappa, Chand, India register an easy win over New Zealand A<\/a><\/h2>\n<p>India A registered an easy win over New Zealand by defeating them by 6 wickets. Uthappa scored a century and Chand missed it just by 6 runs. Uthappa&#8217;s strong come back gave the visitors a head start to build upon and easily scale the score of 257 to defeat New Zealand&#8217;s target.<\/p>\n<p>[\/dropshadowbox]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>[dropshadowbox effect=&#8221;horizontal-curve-bottom&#8221; rounded_corners=&#8221;false&#8221; width=&#8221;99%&#8221; height=&#8221;140px&#8221;] Pakistan spinners crushed Zimbabwe to register a victory on the final day Saeed Ajmal, the\u00a0Pakistan off-spinner claimed 11 wickets for 118 in the first test with Zimbabwe, as Zimbabwe collapsed to 120 all out before lunch on the final day of the test in Harare on Saturday to lose by [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[170,140],"tags":[175,176,151,177,174,178],"class_list":["post-713","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-cricket-news","category-updates","tag-australia-cricket","tag-england-cricket","tag-indian-cricket","tag-new-zealand-cricket","tag-pakistan-cricket","tag-zimbabwe-cricket"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/cricbol.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/713","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\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cricbol.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=713"}],"version-history":[{"count":15,"href":"https:\/\/cricbol.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/713\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":728,"href":"https:\/\/cricbol.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/713\/revisions\/728"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/cricbol.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=713"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cricbol.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=713"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cricbol.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=713"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}