{"id":2562,"date":"2021-07-14T11:04:03","date_gmt":"2021-07-14T05:34:03","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.businessupturn.com\/sports\/?p=125806"},"modified":"2021-07-14T11:04:03","modified_gmt":"2021-07-14T05:34:03","slug":"james-vinces-century-in-3rd-odi-helped-england-to-sweep-pakistan","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.businessupturn.com\/sports\/cricket\/james-vinces-century-in-3rd-odi-helped-england-to-sweep-pakistan\/","title":{"rendered":"James Vince\u2019s century in 3rd ODI helped England to sweep Pakistan"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>After James Vince\u2019s century guided England to a three-wicket victory over Pakistan in their one-day international series on Tuesday, the hosts completed a 3-0 sweep of Pakistan.<\/p>\n<p>Vince\u2019s first international century helped England chase down 332 at Edgbaston, defeating Pakistan captain Babar Azam\u2019s 158. Vince\u2019s 102 from 95 balls led a makeshift side after England\u2019s entire first-choice ODI team was forced to isolate after a COVID-19 breakout following the Sri Lanka series, over a week ago.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI hadn\u2019t given up on this moment, but this time last week I didn\u2019t expect it at all,\u201d Vince said after the match.<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"550\" data-dnt=\"true\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">As series wins go\u2026<\/p>\n<p>This one is up there \ud83d\udc4f<\/p>\n<p>\ud83c\udff4\udb40\udc67\udb40\udc62\udb40\udc65\udb40\udc6e\udb40\udc67\udb40\udc7f <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/hashtag\/ENGvPAK?src=hash&ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">#ENGvPAK<\/a> \ud83c\uddf5\ud83c\uddf0 <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/bxfYdzpa19\">pic.twitter.com\/bxfYdzpa19<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2014 England Cricket (@englandcricket) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/englandcricket\/status\/1415058949758459904?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">July 13, 2021<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<p>The 30-year-old Vince said scoring a hundred for his country \u201cwas one of my dreams growing up.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>In the 24th over, England were 165-5 before Vince and Lewis Gregory (77) had a 129-run stand. Gregory top-edged a skier and Vince chipped Haris Rauf (4-65) to mid-off when 29 runs were still required. Craig Overton (18 not out) and Brydon Carse (12 not out) finished the innings in England\u2019s favour.<\/p>\n<p>England elected to bowl first, and Babar\u2019s 179-run partnership with Mohammed Rizwan (74 off 58 balls) provided the foundation of Pakistan\u2019s innings. Babar touched three figures in 104 balls, pulling Carse (5-61) with authority and then playing a crisp cut shot for two boundaries in three balls.<\/p>\n<p>Rizwan got his half-century in 42 balls. When Rizwan went after a leg-side bouncer from Carse, he feathered a nick through to John Simpson, England finally got their third wicket.<\/p>\n<p>Carse picked up two more late wickets as the visitors progressed to 309-5. Babar, on the other hand, was on a career-best 150 not out when he was run out in the 48th over. Carse finally put an end to Babar\u2019s exciting stay by hitting Dawid Malan with a rare mis-hit. Six wickets fell in the last three overs, bringing the total to 331-9.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Vince\u2019s first international ton helped England chase down 332, defeating Pakistan captain Babar Azam\u2019s 158.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":180,"featured_media":25648,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[298,389],"class_list":["post-2562","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-cricket","tag-babar-azam","tag-sports"],"reading_time":"2 min read","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.businessupturn.com\/sports\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2562","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.businessupturn.com\/sports\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.businessupturn.com\/sports\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.businessupturn.com\/sports\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/180"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.businessupturn.com\/sports\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2562"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.businessupturn.com\/sports\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2562\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.businessupturn.com\/sports\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/25648"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.businessupturn.com\/sports\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2562"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.businessupturn.com\/sports\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2562"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.businessupturn.com\/sports\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2562"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}