{"id":5959,"date":"2025-02-19T16:07:09","date_gmt":"2025-02-19T10:07:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/thedailymorningsun.com\/?p=5959"},"modified":"2025-02-19T16:07:09","modified_gmt":"2025-02-19T10:07:09","slug":"the-curtain-has-risen-on-the-champions-trophy-2025","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thedailymorningsun.com\/?p=5959","title":{"rendered":"The curtain has risen on the Champions Trophy 2025"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">\nSports Desk \/\/<\/p>\n<hr \/>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Pakistan is hosting an ICC tournament after 29 years. They took the field on the opening day. Today, New Zealand is playing against them.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">In this match, home captain Mohammad Rizwan won the toss. He decided to field. The game starts at 3 pm.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">New Zealand XI<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Mitchell Santner (captain), Will Young, Devon Conway, Kane Williamson, Daryl Mitchell, Tom Latham (wicketkeeper), Glenn Phillips, Michael Bracewell, Matt Henry, Nathan Smith and Will O&#8217;Rourke.<br \/>\nPakistan XI<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Fakhar Zaman, Babar Azam, Saud Shakeel, Mohammad Rizwan (captain and wicketkeeper), Salman Ali Agha, Tayyab Tahir, Khushdil Shah, Shaheen Shah Afridi, Naseem Shah, Haris Rauf and Abrar Ahmed.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Pakistan won the toss, New Zealand elected to bat<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Express your opinion.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Sports Desk \/\/ Pakistan is hosting an ICC tournament after 29 years. They took the field on the opening day. Today, New Zealand is playing against them. In this match, home captain Mohammad Rizwan won the toss. He decided to field. The game starts at 3 pm. New Zealand XI Mitchell Santner (captain), Will Young, Devon Conway, Kane Williamson, Daryl Mitchell, Tom Latham (wicketkeeper), Glenn Phillips, Michael Bracewell, Matt Henry, Nathan Smith and Will O&#8217;Rourke. Pakistan XI Fakhar Zaman, Babar Azam, Saud Shakeel, Mohammad Rizwan (captain and wicketkeeper), Salman Ali<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":5960,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[35],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-5959","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/thedailymorningsun.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5959","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/thedailymorningsun.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/thedailymorningsun.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thedailymorningsun.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thedailymorningsun.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=5959"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/thedailymorningsun.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5959\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5961,"href":"https:\/\/thedailymorningsun.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5959\/revisions\/5961"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thedailymorningsun.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/5960"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/thedailymorningsun.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=5959"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thedailymorningsun.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=5959"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thedailymorningsun.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=5959"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}