{"id":48077,"date":"2024-01-15T07:31:22","date_gmt":"2024-01-15T07:31:22","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/news.pakistaninewspaperlist.com\/nz-vs-pak-kiwis-to-be-without-williamson-in-third-t20-against-pakistan\/"},"modified":"2024-01-15T07:31:22","modified_gmt":"2024-01-15T07:31:22","slug":"nz-vs-pak-kiwis-to-be-without-williamson-in-third-t20-against-pakistan","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/pakistaninewspaperlist.com\/news\/nz-vs-pak-kiwis-to-be-without-williamson-in-third-t20-against-pakistan\/","title":{"rendered":"NZ vs PAK: Kiwis to be without Williamson in third T20 against Pakistan"},"content":{"rendered":"<div>\n<figure class=\"featuredimg\">\n <\/p>\n<p class=\"captionimg\">Kane Williamson during the second T20I against Pakistan \u2013 AFP<\/p>\n<\/figure>\n<\/div>\n<div>\n<ul>\n<li>Kane Williamson is unlikely to play the remaining T20s.<\/li>\n<li>His focus will be on the upcoming Test series against South Africa.<\/li>\n<li>Tim Seifert is expected to replace Williamson.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Coach Gary Stead stated on Monday that Kane Williamson, the captain of New Zealand, is unlikely to play any more in the series after sustaining a hamstring injury in the second Twenty20 match against <a href=\"https:\/\/www.bolnews.com\/latest\/2024\/01\/fakhar-zaman-ready-to-bat-in-middle-order-against-new-zealand\/\">Pakistan<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>With the first Test against South Africa less than three weeks away, Stead indicated his star batter would likely miss the remaining two matches as well. Williamson was already scheduled to miss the third game on Wednesday.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWith the test matches so close as well and in the big scheme of things (they are) a higher priority I think we\u2019ll try and make sure he\u2019s right for that,\u201d Stead said.<\/p>\n<p>In Sunday\u2019s second match, which his team won by 21 runs, Williamson scored 26 off 15 before he was forced to retire due to injury. New Zealand now leads the five-match series 2-0.<\/p>\n<p>Williamson is anticipated to be replaced in the batting order by Tim Seifert, who Stead said was always scheduled to take Devon Conway\u2019s place as wicketkeeper at some point during the series.<\/p>\n<div class=\"alsoread\">\n<h4 class=\"text-uppercase mb-10 mt-20 fs-18\">Also Read<\/h4>\n<div class=\"post-box sty22\">\n<div class=\"post-frame js-ratioHtP\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.bolnews.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/01\/FotoJet-2024-01-15T115320.212-254x144.jpg\" alt=\"NZ vs PAK: Josh Clarkson out of T20 squad after shoulder injury\"\/><\/div>\n<div class=\"post-content\">\n<h5 class=\"title\">NZ vs PAK: Josh Clarkson out of T20 squad after shoulder injury<\/h5>\n<p>Josh Clarkson is out of the Black Caps T20 squad due to&#8230;<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.bolnews.com\/sports\/2024\/01\/nz-vs-pak-josh-clarkson-out-of-t20-squad-after-shoulder-injury\/\" class=\"post-link\"\/><\/div>\n<\/div><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Kane Williamson during the second T20I against Pakistan \u2013 AFP Kane Williamson is unlikely to play the remaining T20s. His focus will be on the upcoming Test series against South Africa. Tim Seifert is expected to replace Williamson. Coach Gary Stead stated on Monday that Kane Williamson, the captain of New Zealand, is unlikely to [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":48078,"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:\/\/www.bolnews.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/01\/FotoJet-2024-01-15T120259.436.jpg","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-48077","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\/48077","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=48077"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/pakistaninewspaperlist.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/48077\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pakistaninewspaperlist.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/48078"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/pakistaninewspaperlist.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=48077"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pakistaninewspaperlist.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=48077"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pakistaninewspaperlist.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=48077"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}