{"id":28253,"date":"2021-10-25T04:54:34","date_gmt":"2021-10-25T04:54:34","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.banglanewsus.com\/english\/?p=28253"},"modified":"2021-10-25T04:54:34","modified_gmt":"2021-10-25T04:54:34","slug":"babar-leads-from-front-ruthless-pakistan-break-india-jinx","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.banglanewsus.com\/english\/2021\/10\/25\/babar-leads-from-front-ruthless-pakistan-break-india-jinx\/","title":{"rendered":"Babar leads from front, ruthless Pakistan break India jinx"},"content":{"rendered":"<h4 id=\"leadtext\"><strong>Captain Babar Azam led by example as Pakistan beat India in a World Cup showdown for the first time ever with a 10-wicket romp in a Super 12 blockbuster at the Twenty20 World Cup on Sunday.<\/strong><\/h4>\n<p>Virat Kohli played a captain&#8217;s knock of 57 to rescue India from a top-order wobble and help them post a competitive 151-7 in a rematch of the inaugural 2007 final.<\/p>\n<p>His counterpart Babar combined with Mohammad Rizwan to get Pakistan off to a flying start and then overwhelmed the target with 13 balls to spare to snap India&#8217;s 100% win record against them in limited-overs World Cups.<\/p>\n<p>Babar remained not out on 68, while Rizwan made an unbeaten 79.<\/p>\n<p>Wary of the dew factor, captains have preferred to field and Babar too followed that trend after winning the toss.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Captain Babar Azam led by example as Pakistan beat India in a World Cup showdown for the first time ever with a 10-wicket romp in a Super 12 blockbuster at the Twenty20 World Cup on Sunday. Virat Kohli played a captain&rsquo;s knock of 57 to rescue India from a top-order wobble and help them post a competitive 151-7 in a rematch of the inaugural 2007 final. His counterpart Babar combined with Mohammad Rizwan to get Pakistan off to a flying start and then overwhelmed the target with 13 balls to<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":28254,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[30,7],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.banglanewsus.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/28253"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.banglanewsus.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.banglanewsus.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.banglanewsus.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.banglanewsus.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=28253"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.banglanewsus.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/28253\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":28255,"href":"https:\/\/www.banglanewsus.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/28253\/revisions\/28255"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.banglanewsus.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/28254"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.banglanewsus.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=28253"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.banglanewsus.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=28253"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.banglanewsus.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=28253"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}