{"id":6931,"date":"2023-07-24T15:07:56","date_gmt":"2023-07-24T09:37:56","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.businessupturn.com\/sports\/?p=337191"},"modified":"2023-07-24T15:07:56","modified_gmt":"2023-07-24T09:37:56","slug":"papua-new-guinea-and-japan-triumph-in-eap-t20-world-cup-qualifier","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.businessupturn.com\/sports\/cricket\/papua-new-guinea-and-japan-triumph-in-eap-t20-world-cup-qualifier\/","title":{"rendered":"Papua New Guinea and Japan triumph in EAP T20 World Cup Qualifier"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Papua New Guinea (PNG) emerged as the dominant team in the East Asia Pacific T20 World Cup Qualifier Regional Final, securing a convincing 117-run victory against the Philippines.<\/p>\n<p>Opting to bat first, PNG scored 162-7, with Hiri Hiri and Lega Siaka leading the charge. However, the Philippines displayed strong bowling efforts, with Kepler Lukies and others containing the hosts to 42-3 initially.<\/p>\n<p>Nonetheless, a crucial 78-run partnership between Hiri and Siaka restored PNG\u2019s advantage. In the second innings, PNG\u2019s Kabua Morea shone with an exceptional spell of 5-3, including a hat-trick, and bowled out the Philippines for a meager 45 runs.<\/p>\n<p>In the afternoon game, Japan defended their total of 131 against Vanuatu, securing a 21-run victory.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Papua New Guinea (PNG) emerged as the dominant team in the East Asia Pacific T20 World Cup Qualifier Regional Final,\u2026<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":250,"featured_media":29838,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[493,1884,3709],"class_list":["post-6931","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-cricket","tag-japan","tag-papua-new-guinea","tag-world-cup-qualifier"],"reading_time":"1 min read","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.businessupturn.com\/sports\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6931","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=6931"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.businessupturn.com\/sports\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6931\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.businessupturn.com\/sports\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/29838"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.businessupturn.com\/sports\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6931"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.businessupturn.com\/sports\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6931"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.businessupturn.com\/sports\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6931"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}