{"id":380339,"date":"2024-01-12T09:20:28","date_gmt":"2024-01-12T04:20:28","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/leadpakistan.com.pk\/news\/?p=380339"},"modified":"2024-01-12T09:20:28","modified_gmt":"2024-01-12T04:20:28","slug":"kane-williamson-praises-pakistan-ahead-of-t20i-series","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/leadpakistan.com.pk\/news\/kane-williamson-praises-pakistan-ahead-of-t20i-series\/","title":{"rendered":"Kane Williamson praises Pakistan ahead of T20I series"},"content":{"rendered":"<p> Islamabad<br \/>\nNew Zealand skipper Kane Williamson praised the Pakistan cricket team ahead of the five-match T20I series which is set to begin on January 12 in Auckland. Williamson, who led New Zealand to the 2021 T20 World Cup final, stated the matches against Pakistan are always competitive.<br \/>\n\u201cPakistan is one of the best teams in the world, playing against them is always a fantastic opportunity,\u201d Williamson said. \u201cBefore the 2022 T20 World Cup, they played a tri-series here [In New Zealand] and won. It will be a great opportunity for our players.\u201d<br \/>\nIt must be noted that after skipper Babar Azam stepped down as the captain of all formats, Shaheen Shah Afridi was named the skipper of the shortest format by the PCB.<br \/>\nShaheen \u2014 who is considered one of the finest bowlers in the world, especially with the new ball \u2014 will have his first assignment as captain against the runner-ups of the 2021 T20 World Cup.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Islamabad New Zealand skipper Kane Williamson praised the Pakistan cricket team ahead of the five-match T20I series which is set to begin on January 12 in Auckland. Williamson, who led New Zealand to the 2021 T20 World Cup final, stated the matches against Pakistan are always competitive. \u201cPakistan is one of the best teams in [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-380339","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-sports"},"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v27.4 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/product\/yoast-seo-wordpress\/ -->\n<title>Kane Williamson praises Pakistan ahead of T20I series<\/title>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/leadpakistan.com.pk\/news\/kane-williamson-praises-pakistan-ahead-of-t20i-series\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"Kane Williamson praises Pakistan ahead of T20I series\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"Islamabad New Zealand skipper Kane Williamson praised the Pakistan cricket team ahead of the five-match T20I series which is set to begin on January 12 in Auckland. 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