{"id":50369,"date":"2025-11-26T08:58:01","date_gmt":"2025-11-26T03:58:01","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/sapeher.dailysapehertimes.com.pk\/?p=50369"},"modified":"2025-11-26T09:09:37","modified_gmt":"2025-11-26T04:09:37","slug":"islamabad-sapeher-times-tri-nation-t20-series-zimbabwe-defeated-by-9-wickets-sri-lanka-hopes-to-reach-the-final","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sapeher.dailysapehertimes.com.pk\/?p=50369","title":{"rendered":"ISLAMABAD (Sapeher Times) Tri-nation T20 series: Zimbabwe defeated by 9 wickets, Sri Lanka hopes to reach the final"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>ISLAMABAD (Sapeher Times) In the fifth match of the tri-nation T20 series, Sri Lanka has easily defeated Zimbabwe by 9 wickets and achieved its first victory in the tournament, after which Sri Lanka is expected to reach the final in the tri-series final. From Sri Lanka, Patham Nissanka played a lightning-fast innings of 98 runs not out off 58 balls to make the victory easy for the Tigers, the top-order batsman also hit 11 fours and 4 sixes during his beautiful innings.<br \/>\nKusal Mendis also supported the right-handed batsman and remained at the wicket after scoring 25 runs, Kamil Mishara became the victim of Brad Evans after scoring 12 runs.<br \/>\nIn the crucial match of the tri-nation T20 series played at the Rawalpindi Cricket Stadium, Zimbabwe won the toss and elected to bat first and scored 146 runs for the loss of 5 wickets in the stipulated 20 overs. In response, the Sri Lankan team achieved the target of 147 runs for the loss of one wicket in the 17th over.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter wp-image-53717 size-full\" src=\"https:\/\/www.dailybigdigit.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/11\/WhatsApp-Image-2025-11-26-at-7.37.00-AM.jpeg\" alt=\"\" width=\"800\" height=\"480\" \/><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter wp-image-53716 size-full\" src=\"https:\/\/www.dailybigdigit.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/11\/WhatsApp-Image-2025-11-26-at-7.37.01-AM.jpeg\" alt=\"\" width=\"800\" height=\"480\" \/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>ISLAMABAD (Sapeher Times) In the fifth match of the tri-nation T20 series, Sri Lanka has easily defeated Zimbabwe by 9 wickets and achieved its first victory in the tournament, after which Sri Lanka is expected to reach the final in the tri-series final. From Sri Lanka, Patham Nissanka played a lightning-fast innings of 98 runs [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":8,"featured_media":50372,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[63,7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-50369","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-63","category-pakistan-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/sapeher.dailysapehertimes.com.pk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/50369","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/sapeher.dailysapehertimes.com.pk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/sapeher.dailysapehertimes.com.pk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sapeher.dailysapehertimes.com.pk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/8"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sapeher.dailysapehertimes.com.pk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=50369"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/sapeher.dailysapehertimes.com.pk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/50369\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":50376,"href":"https:\/\/sapeher.dailysapehertimes.com.pk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/50369\/revisions\/50376"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sapeher.dailysapehertimes.com.pk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/50372"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sapeher.dailysapehertimes.com.pk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=50369"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sapeher.dailysapehertimes.com.pk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=50369"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sapeher.dailysapehertimes.com.pk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=50369"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}