{"id":72454,"date":"2024-11-04T09:13:38","date_gmt":"2024-11-04T04:13:38","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/nabanews.pk\/en\/?p=72454"},"modified":"2024-11-04T09:24:05","modified_gmt":"2024-11-04T04:24:05","slug":"sri-lanka-defeat-pakistan-to-claim-hong-kong-super-sixes-title","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/nabanews.pk\/en\/sri-lanka-defeat-pakistan-to-claim-hong-kong-super-sixes-title\/","title":{"rendered":"Sri Lanka defeat Pakistan to claim Hong Kong Super Sixes title"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Green shirts were outclassed as The Lions chased modest 73-run target<br \/>\nHong Kong<br \/>\nSri Lanka Sunday defeated Pakistan by three wickets claiming their victory over the Hong Kong Super Sixes 2024 title.<br \/>\nThe Green shirts were outclassed as The Lions chased a modest 73-run target with a loss of just three wickets and six balls.<br \/>\nOpeners Sandun Weerakkody and Dhananjaya Lakshan gave the team a decent start, recording a 39-run partnership.<br \/>\nSkipper Faheem Ashraf drew the much-needed breakthrough for Pakistan in the fourth over by dismissing set batter Weerakkody, who top-scored with a 13-ball 34.<br \/>\nPakistan then struck twice in quick succession and had reduced Sri Lanka to 59\/3 in 4.2 overs but Tharindu Rathnayake played a gutsy 16-run knock under pressure and took his side over the line in the pentultimate over.<br \/>\nFor Pakistan, Hussain Talat and Faheem could pick up a wicket apiece.<br \/>\nSri Lanka captain Lihuru Madhusanka\u2019s decision to bowl first bore fruits as his bowlers bundled out Pakistan on a modest total despite Muhammad Akhlaq\u2019s quickfire knock up the order.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Green shirts were outclassed as The Lions chased modest 73-run target Hong Kong Sri Lanka Sunday defeated Pakistan by three wickets claiming their victory over the Hong Kong Super Sixes 2024 title. The Green shirts were outclassed as The Lions chased a modest 73-run target with a loss of just three wickets and six balls. &hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":72467,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-72454","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/nabanews.pk\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/72454","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/nabanews.pk\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/nabanews.pk\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nabanews.pk\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nabanews.pk\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=72454"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/nabanews.pk\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/72454\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":72485,"href":"https:\/\/nabanews.pk\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/72454\/revisions\/72485"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nabanews.pk\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/72467"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/nabanews.pk\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=72454"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nabanews.pk\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=72454"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nabanews.pk\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=72454"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}