{"id":9260,"date":"2025-10-05T20:32:19","date_gmt":"2025-10-05T15:02:19","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.businessupturn.com\/sports\/?p=643824"},"modified":"2025-10-05T20:32:19","modified_gmt":"2025-10-05T15:02:19","slug":"ind-vs-pak-womens-cwc-2025-kranti-gaud-strikes-twice-as-pakistan-collapse-to-26-3-in-world-cup-clash-against-india","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.businessupturn.com\/sports\/cricket\/ind-vs-pak-womens-cwc-2025-kranti-gaud-strikes-twice-as-pakistan-collapse-to-26-3-in-world-cup-clash-against-india\/","title":{"rendered":"IND vs PAK, Women\u2019s CWC 2025: Kranti Gaud strikes twice as Pakistan collapse to 26\/3 in World Cup clash against India"},"content":{"rendered":"<p data-start=\"105\" data-end=\"326\">India tightened their grip over the much-anticipated India vs Pakistan Women\u2019s World Cup 2025 match in Colombo, as <strong data-start=\"220\" data-end=\"259\">Kranti Gaud delivered a fiery spell<\/strong> to reduce Pakistan to <strong data-start=\"282\" data-end=\"305\">26\/3 after 11 overs<\/strong> in pursuit of 248.<\/p>\n<p data-start=\"328\" data-end=\"699\">After dismissing <strong data-start=\"345\" data-end=\"361\">Sadaf Shamas<\/strong> with an easy caught-and-bowled \u2014 a soft return off the thick outer edge that Gaud reverse-cupped comfortably \u2014 the Indian bowler struck again in quick succession. <strong data-start=\"525\" data-end=\"539\">Aliya Riaz<\/strong>, who looked tentative from the start, fell for just 2 runs after a loose shot outside off found <strong data-start=\"636\" data-end=\"668\">Deepti Sharma at second slip<\/strong>, who took a sharp low catch.<\/p>\n<p data-start=\"701\" data-end=\"862\">The double breakthrough came at a crucial time, following <strong data-start=\"759\" data-end=\"821\">Muneeba Ali\u2019s controversial run-out earlier in the innings<\/strong>, leaving Pakistan\u2019s top order rattled.<\/p>\n<p data-start=\"864\" data-end=\"1162\" data-is-last-node=\"\" data-is-only-node=\"\">At the time of writing, Pakistan are <strong data-start=\"901\" data-end=\"923\">26\/3 in 11.1 overs<\/strong>, with opener <strong data-start=\"937\" data-end=\"951\">Sidra Amin<\/strong> struggling to anchor the innings under mounting pressure. Kranti Gaud\u2019s figures of <strong data-start=\"1035\" data-end=\"1056\">2\/10 in 5.1 overs<\/strong> have placed India firmly on top, as they look to extend their unbeaten World Cup record against Pakistan.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>India tightened their grip over the much-anticipated India vs Pakistan Women\u2019s World Cup 2025 match in Colombo, as Kranti Gaud\u2026<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":391,"featured_media":31948,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-9260","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-cricket"],"reading_time":"1 min read","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.businessupturn.com\/sports\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9260","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\/391"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.businessupturn.com\/sports\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=9260"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.businessupturn.com\/sports\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9260\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.businessupturn.com\/sports\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/31948"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.businessupturn.com\/sports\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=9260"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.businessupturn.com\/sports\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=9260"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.businessupturn.com\/sports\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=9260"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}