{"id":93961,"date":"2026-02-28T17:19:40","date_gmt":"2026-02-28T17:19:40","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/mazaj.com.pk\/urdu\/?p=93961"},"modified":"2026-09-10T10:42:30","modified_gmt":"2026-09-10T10:42:30","slug":"%d8%a7%da%af%d8%b1%d9%85%da%af%d8%b1-%d8%ae%d8%aa%d9%85%d8%8c%d9%be%d8%a7%da%a9%d8%b3%d8%aa%d8%a7%d9%86-%da%a9%d8%b1%da%a9%d9%b9-%d9%88%d8%b1%d9%84%da%88-%da%a9%d9%be-%da%a9%db%92-%d8%b3%db%8c%d9%85","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/islamabadherald.com\/eng\/?p=93961","title":{"rendered":"No ifs and buts: Pakistan cricket team is out of the World Cup semi-final race"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><b data-path-to-node=\"0\" data-index-in-node=\"0\">Green Shirts Out of T20 World Cup: Bowlers Fail to Restrict Sri Lanka Below 147<\/b><\/p>\n<div id=\"model-response-message-contentr_514d62e43375f054\" class=\"markdown markdown-main-panel md-content enable-luminous-fast-follows enable-updated-hr-color tutor-markdown-rendering\" dir=\"ltr\" aria-busy=\"false\" aria-live=\"polite\">\n<div class=\"\" dir=\"\">The Pakistan cricket team has been knocked out of the ICC Men&#8217;s T20 World Cup semi-final race. In a crucial Super 8 match played in Kandy, Sri Lanka won the toss and invited Pakistan to bat.<\/div>\n<div class=\"\" dir=\"\">Powered by explosive innings from Sahibzada Farhan and Fakhar Zaman, Pakistan posted a massive total of 212-8 in their allotted 20 overs. Sahibzada Farhan scored a brilliant century (100 runs), while Fakhar Zaman played a stellar knock of 84 runs.<\/div>\n<div class=\"\" dir=\"\">To qualify for the semi-finals, Pakistan needed to restrict Sri Lanka to 147 runs or fewer, but the Pakistani bowlers were unable to defend the target within the required margin, ending their tournament campaign.<\/div>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Green Shirts Out of T20 World Cup: Bowlers Fail to Restrict Sri Lanka Below 147 The Pakistan cricket team has been knocked out of the ICC Men&#8217;s T20 World Cup semi-final race. In a crucial Super 8 match played in Kandy, Sri Lanka won the toss and invited Pakistan to bat. Powered by explosive innings [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":93964,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[16,19],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-93961","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-national","category-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/islamabadherald.com\/eng\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/93961","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/islamabadherald.com\/eng\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/islamabadherald.com\/eng\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/islamabadherald.com\/eng\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/islamabadherald.com\/eng\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=93961"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/islamabadherald.com\/eng\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/93961\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":97467,"href":"https:\/\/islamabadherald.com\/eng\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/93961\/revisions\/97467"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/islamabadherald.com\/eng\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/93964"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/islamabadherald.com\/eng\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=93961"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/islamabadherald.com\/eng\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=93961"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/islamabadherald.com\/eng\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=93961"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}