{"id":38806,"date":"2023-12-23T06:58:06","date_gmt":"2023-12-23T06:58:06","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/news.pakistaninewspaperlist.com\/pakistans-practice-match-against-victorian-xi-ends-even\/"},"modified":"2023-12-23T06:58:06","modified_gmt":"2023-12-23T06:58:06","slug":"pakistans-practice-match-against-victorian-xi-ends-even","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/pakistaninewspaperlist.com\/news\/pakistans-practice-match-against-victorian-xi-ends-even\/","title":{"rendered":"Pakistan&#8217;s practice match against Victorian XI ends even"},"content":{"rendered":"<div>\n<p>The two-day practice match between Pakistan and Victorian XI at Junction Oval concluded with a draw after an intriguing display of cricket from both sides.<\/p>\n<p>Pakistan started the match with a solid batting performance in their first innings, declaring at 323-8 in 78.4 overs.<\/p>\n<p>Saud Shakeel (70 retired) and Mohammad Rizwan (50 retired) laid a strong foundation. Salman Ali Agha contributed with a well-crafted 51, and Sarfaraz Ahmed (35), Siam Ayub (30), and Abdullah Shafique (26) made valuable contributions. Imam ul Haq scored 37, steering the team towards a competitive total.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>The Victorian XI bowlers faced resistance, with FC Warren (3-69) leading the attack, supported by MF Fotia (2-44), WB Parker (1-52), SM Elliott (1-40), and TR Pearson (1-48).<\/p>\n<p>In response, Victorian\u00a0XI posted a competitive total of 272-4 in 59 overs in their first innings. Opener MH Harris impressed with a brilliant 126, anchoring the innings. DJ Brasher remained unbeaten with a solid 79, while BR Thomson (30) and WJ Pucovski (4) also contributed.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>The Pakistan bowlers shared the wickets, with Shaheen Afridi (1-37), Mir Hamza (1-69), Sajid Khan (1-53), and Hassan Ali (1-53) each making breakthroughs.<\/p>\n<p>With the match was heading towards a draw, Pakistan batted again in the second innings, reaching 57-2 in 11.2 overs before the conclusion of the match.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Abdullah Shafique remained unbeaten with a promising 39, while Shan Masood (6) and Sarfaraz Ahmed (10) were the batsmen dismissed. 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Pakistan started the match with a solid batting performance in their first innings, declaring at 323-8 in 78.4 overs. Saud Shakeel (70 retired) and Mohammad Rizwan (50 retired) laid a [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":38807,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"om_disable_all_campaigns":false,"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"site-sidebar-layout":"default","site-content-layout":"","ast-site-content-layout":"default","site-content-style":"default","site-sidebar-style":"default","ast-global-header-display":"","ast-banner-title-visibility":"","ast-main-header-display":"","ast-hfb-above-header-display":"","ast-hfb-below-header-display":"","ast-hfb-mobile-header-display":"","site-post-title":"","ast-breadcrumbs-content":"","ast-featured-img":"","footer-sml-layout":"","ast-disable-related-posts":"","theme-transparent-header-meta":"","adv-header-id-meta":"","stick-header-meta":"","header-above-stick-meta":"","header-main-stick-meta":"","header-below-stick-meta":"","astra-migrate-meta-layouts":"default","ast-page-background-enabled":"default","ast-page-background-meta":{"desktop":{"background-color":"var(--ast-global-color-4)","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""},"tablet":{"background-color":"","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""},"mobile":{"background-color":"","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""}},"ast-content-background-meta":{"desktop":{"background-color":"var(--ast-global-color-5)","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""},"tablet":{"background-color":"var(--ast-global-color-5)","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""},"mobile":{"background-color":"var(--ast-global-color-5)","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""}},"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/c.cricketpakistan.com.pk\/images\/posts\/cover_1703309335CC2.jpg","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-38806","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-sports"],"acf":[],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/pakistaninewspaperlist.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/38806","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/pakistaninewspaperlist.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/pakistaninewspaperlist.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pakistaninewspaperlist.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pakistaninewspaperlist.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=38806"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/pakistaninewspaperlist.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/38806\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pakistaninewspaperlist.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/38807"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/pakistaninewspaperlist.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=38806"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pakistaninewspaperlist.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=38806"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pakistaninewspaperlist.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=38806"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}