{"id":15165,"date":"2012-10-02T17:26:57","date_gmt":"2012-10-02T15:26:57","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/10\/update-2-cricket-big-win-for-pakistan-but-australia-make-semis\/"},"modified":"2012-10-02T17:26:57","modified_gmt":"2012-10-02T15:26:57","slug":"update-2-cricket-big-win-for-pakistan-but-australia-make-semis","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/press\/update-2-cricket-big-win-for-pakistan-but-australia-make-semis\/","title":{"rendered":"UPDATE 2-Cricket-Big win for Pakistan but Australia make semis"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>\t\t<span><\/span><\/p>\n<p>* Pakistan win by 32 runs to stay in hunt for semis<span><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span><\/span><\/p>\n<p>* Australia through with superior net run-rate   (Adds byline, quotes)<\/p>\n<p><span><\/span><\/p>\n<p>By Shihar Aneez<\/p>\n<p><span><\/span><\/p>\n<p>COLOMBO, Oct 2 (Reuters) &#8211; Saeed Ajmal and Raza Hasan spun Pakistan to a 32-run victory against Australia in their Super Eight match to keep alive their World Twenty20 semi-final hopes on Tuesday.<\/p>\n<p><span><\/span><\/p>\n<p>Despite the defeat, Australia advanced to join Sri Lanka and West Indies in the last four with a superior net run-rate after beating India and South Africa in their earlier Super Eight matches.<\/p>\n<p><span><\/span><\/p>\n<p>Off-spinner Ajmal took three wickets for 17 while man-of-the-match Hasan picked up two for 14 runs as Australia could only manage 117 for seven in their 20 overs, chasing 150 for victory.<\/p>\n<p><span><\/span><\/p>\n<p>Hafeez thanked his bowlers for rising to the occasion after the eight-wicket defeat against arch-rivals India on Sunday.<\/p>\n<p><span><\/span><\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Everybody realised that we have to win the game and win with a margin. I am grateful to see the effort of the boys,&#8221; Hafeez said during the post-match presentation ceremony.<\/p>\n<p><span><\/span><\/p>\n<p>&#8220;It was terrific by everybody and every bowler did a great job for Pakistan. We wanted our bowlers to do the job and we got the total we really wanted.<br \/>\n\u00a0 <span class=\"label\"><strong>Continued&#8230;<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>* Pakistan win by 32 runs to stay in hunt for semis * Australia through with superior net run-rate (Adds byline, quotes) By Shihar Aneez COLOMBO, Oct 2 (Reuters) &#8211; Saeed Ajmal and Raza Hasan spun Pakistan to a 32-run victory against Australia in their Super Eight match to keep alive their World Twenty20 semi-final [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_genesis_hide_title":false,"_genesis_hide_breadcrumbs":false,"_genesis_hide_singular_image":false,"_genesis_hide_footer_widgets":false,"_genesis_custom_body_class":"","_genesis_custom_post_class":"","_genesis_layout":"","ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[1],"tags":[830,2370,183],"class_list":{"0":"post-15165","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-south-africa","7":"tag-news","8":"tag-reuters","9":"tag-south-africa-2","10":"entry"},"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/press\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15165","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/press\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/press\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/press\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/press\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=15165"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/press\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15165\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/press\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=15165"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/press\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=15165"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/press\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=15165"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}