{"id":4557,"date":"2022-10-01T02:06:32","date_gmt":"2022-09-30T20:36:32","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.businessupturn.com\/sports\/?p=249039"},"modified":"2022-10-01T02:06:32","modified_gmt":"2022-09-30T20:36:32","slug":"phil-salt-claims-a-swift-win-for-england","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.businessupturn.com\/sports\/cricket\/phil-salt-claims-a-swift-win-for-england\/","title":{"rendered":"Phil Salt Claims A Swift Win For England"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>England decided to bowl first against Pakistan at Lahore on Friday. Pakistan had an upsetting start losing a couple of wickets at the start. However, Pakistan\u2019s skipper Babar Azam handled his side helping the team to reach a defendable score of 169\/6.<\/p>\n<p>The skipper\u2019s innings also equalled him to Virat Kholi\u2019s record of completing T20Is 3000 runs in just 81 innings.<\/p>\n<p>However, only the skipper\u2019s innings weren\u2019t enough for the host to grab a win.<\/p>\n<p>England\u2019s wicketkeeper-opener Phil Salt dominated the Pakistani side completely. He scored a stunning 88 of 41 with a destructive strike rate of 214.63. The star player stood firm for England\u2019s side till the winning shot.<\/p>\n<p>Apart from Phil Salt (88*), Alex Hales played an accelerating innings scoring 27 of just 12 balls. David Malan and Ben Duckett both contributed 26 for England.<\/p>\n<p>England made a swift win in just 14.3 overs against the host with eight wickets still in hand at the Gaddafi Stadium, Lahore, Pakistan.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Phil Salt\u2019s stunning 88 of 41 helps England win a eight wicket win against Pakistan. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":300,"featured_media":27571,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[298,2160],"class_list":["post-4557","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-cricket","tag-babar-azam","tag-phil-salt"],"reading_time":"1 min read","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.businessupturn.com\/sports\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4557","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\/300"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.businessupturn.com\/sports\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4557"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.businessupturn.com\/sports\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4557\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.businessupturn.com\/sports\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/27571"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.businessupturn.com\/sports\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4557"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.businessupturn.com\/sports\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4557"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.businessupturn.com\/sports\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4557"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}