{"id":185747,"date":"2024-12-02T12:59:23","date_gmt":"2024-12-02T10:59:23","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/southern-africa\/zimbabwe\/zimbabwe-chevrons-lose-t20-series-opener-to-pakistan\/"},"modified":"2024-12-02T12:59:23","modified_gmt":"2024-12-02T10:59:23","slug":"zimbabwe-chevrons-lose-t20-series-opener-to-pakistan","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/southern-africa\/zimbabwe\/zimbabwe-chevrons-lose-t20-series-opener-to-pakistan\/","title":{"rendered":"Zimbabwe: Chevrons Lose T20 Series Opener to Pakistan"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<div>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"34\">AFTER losing 2-1 in the three match One Day International (ODI) against Pakistan, which ended last week, the Chevrons kicked off their T20 series campaign with a 57-run defeat at Queens Sports Club Sunday.<\/p>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"27\">Zimbabwe&#8217;s poor performance with the bat saw them failing to reach Pakistan&#8217;s set target of 165 runs in 20 overs, which was posted in the first innings.<\/p>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"33\">Once again Chevrons&#8217; over reliance on Sikandar Raza cost them as the all-rounder was eliminated with 38 runs off 28 balls in the 12th over&#8230;<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/allafrica.com\/stories\/202412020240.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Read more on AllAfrica.com<\/a><br \/>\n<br \/>South Africa Today Africa \u2013 Southern Africa <a title=\"Zimbabwe\" href=\"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/category\/southern-africa\/zimbabwe\/\">Zimbabwe<\/a> News<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>AFTER losing 2-1 in the three match One Day International (ODI) against Pakistan, which ended last week, the Chevrons kicked off their T20 series campaign with a 57-run defeat at Queens Sports Club Sunday. Zimbabwe&#8217;s poor performance with the bat saw them failing to reach Pakistan&#8217;s set target of 165 runs in 20 overs, which [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":11,"featured_media":188473,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"tdm_status":"","tdm_grid_status":"","fifu_image_url":"","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[248],"tags":[258,256,19639,9569,257,13937,5174,6761,254,13525,4686,421],"class_list":["post-185747","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-zimbabwe","tag-africa","tag-africa-news","tag-chevrons","tag-lose","tag-news","tag-opener","tag-pakistan","tag-series","tag-south-africa-today","tag-t20","tag-zimbabwe","tag-zimbabwe-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/185747","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/11"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=185747"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/185747\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/188473"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=185747"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=185747"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=185747"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}