{"id":5060,"date":"2023-01-02T13:25:52","date_gmt":"2023-01-02T07:55:52","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.businessupturn.com\/sports\/?p=268492"},"modified":"2023-01-02T13:25:52","modified_gmt":"2023-01-02T07:55:52","slug":"pak-vs-nz-live-kiwi-openers-justify-skippers-decision-as-partnership-crosses-100-before-lunch","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.businessupturn.com\/sports\/cricket\/pak-vs-nz-live-kiwi-openers-justify-skippers-decision-as-partnership-crosses-100-before-lunch\/","title":{"rendered":"PAK vs NZ Live: Kiwi openers justify skipper\u2019s decision as partnership crosses 100 before Lunch"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Tim Southee\u2019s decision to bat first in the second Test was justified by Tom Latham and Devon Conway, who put on an unbroken 119-run partnership by Lunch on the first day.<\/p>\n<p>With the exception of a few close shouts against each batter, Pakistan had little going their way the entire match. \u00a0Hamza had another review go against him, this time against Conway, with the height denying Pakistan, while Latham, who was given out LBW on the field, was saved by an inside edge caught.<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"550\" data-dnt=\"true\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">Fifties for both the New Zealand openers \ud83d\udc4f<a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/hashtag\/WTC23?src=hash&ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">#WTC23<\/a> | \ud83d\udcdd <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/5TMMWQ0jQl\">https:\/\/t.co\/5TMMWQ0jQl<\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/Voa6YFD9Xm\">pic.twitter.com\/Voa6YFD9Xm<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2014 ICC (@ICC) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/ICC\/status\/1609803809588449281?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">January 2, 2023<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<p>The openers will continue to strike hard as Pakistani pacers struggle to get the first wicket.<\/p>\n<p>Latham reached his fifty first\u2014his 24th in Tests\u2014and Conway quickly followed with his sixth Test fifty, ensuring that New Zealand was in good shape at the end of the first session on day one.<\/p>\n<p>New Zealand is touring Pakistan and today is the first day of the 2nd Test of the series which is currently at a 0-0 stage with the first Test resulted as \u201cDrawn\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Tim Southee\u2019s decision to bat first in the second Test was justified by Tom Latham and Devon Conway, who put\u2026<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":250,"featured_media":28034,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[2192,164,1183],"class_list":["post-5060","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-cricket","tag-kiwis","tag-new-zealand","tag-tom-latham"],"reading_time":"1 min read","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.businessupturn.com\/sports\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5060","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\/250"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.businessupturn.com\/sports\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=5060"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.businessupturn.com\/sports\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5060\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.businessupturn.com\/sports\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/28034"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.businessupturn.com\/sports\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5060"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.businessupturn.com\/sports\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5060"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.businessupturn.com\/sports\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5060"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}