{"id":2302,"date":"2021-11-11T23:54:43","date_gmt":"2021-11-11T18:54:43","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.asiafreepress.com\/?p=2302"},"modified":"2021-11-12T12:38:18","modified_gmt":"2021-11-12T07:38:18","slug":"australia-to-play-new-zealand-in-t20-world-cup-final","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.asiafreepress.com\/en_gb\/sports\/australia-to-play-new-zealand-in-t20-world-cup-final\/","title":{"rendered":"Australia to play New Zealand in T20 World Cup final"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>Pakistan&#8217;s unbeaten T20 World Cup journey ends with loss at hands of Australia<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>ISTANBUL, Nov 11, (AA): Australia beat Pakistan in a thrilling semi-final match on Thursday to reach the T20 Cricket World Cup final.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Pakistan put up a strong 176-run chase for Australia which finished the score in the penultimate over, with five wickets in hand.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Australia and New Zealand will be face-to-face on Sunday to battle for the champion&#8217;s hat.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>This was the first loss for the Pakistani cricket team in its stunning journey through the tournament.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Matthew Wade, the Australian wicket-keeper, closed the game by batting three sixes in the 19th over, playing against Pakistan&#8217;s budding bowler Shaheen Shah Afridi.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Wade was lucky enough to pull Australia to the finals after Hasan Ali dropped a catch.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Pakistan&#8217;s Mohammad Rizwan and Fakhar Zaman each put quick fifties, while David Warner and Wade scored 49 and 41, both for Australia.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>New Zealand beat favourites England by five wickets to reach the final of the T20 World Cup.<\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Pakistan&#8217;s unbeaten T20 World Cup journey ends with loss at hands of Australia ISTANBUL, Nov 11, (AA): Australia beat Pakistan in a thrilling semi-final match on Thursday to reach the T20 Cricket World Cup final. Pakistan put up a strong 176-run chase for Australia which finished the score in the penultimate over, with five wickets [&hellip;]<\/p>","protected":false},"author":9,"featured_media":2303,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[396,53],"tags":[221,92,65,923],"class_list":["post-2302","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-latest","category-sports","tag-australia","tag-new-zealand","tag-pakistan","tag-t20-world-cup-2021"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.asiafreepress.com\/en_gb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2302"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.asiafreepress.com\/en_gb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.asiafreepress.com\/en_gb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.asiafreepress.com\/en_gb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/9"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.asiafreepress.com\/en_gb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2302"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.asiafreepress.com\/en_gb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2302\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.asiafreepress.com\/en_gb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2303"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.asiafreepress.com\/en_gb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2302"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.asiafreepress.com\/en_gb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2302"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.asiafreepress.com\/en_gb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2302"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}