{"id":965686,"date":"2024-07-14T17:21:48","date_gmt":"2024-07-14T17:21:48","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/localhost:8888\/dm-simulator-v2\/?p=965686"},"modified":"2024-07-14T17:21:48","modified_gmt":"2024-07-14T17:21:48","slug":"samson-kumar-help-india-to-42-run-win-over-zimbabwe","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/elections.sabc.co.za\/elections2024\/samson-kumar-help-india-to-42-run-win-over-zimbabwe\/","title":{"rendered":"Samson, Kumar help India to 42-run win over Zimbabwe"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Middle-order batter Sanju Samson struck a brisk 58 from 45 balls and seamer Mukesh Kumar took 4-22 as India defeated Zimbabwe by 42 runs at the Harare Sports Club on Sunday to complete a 4-1 victory in their five-game T20 International series.<\/p>\n<p>After being sent in to bat by their hosts, a youthful India without several regulars posted 167 for six in their 20 overs before restricting Zimbabwe to 125 all out in reply to complete a comfortable win.<\/p>\n<p>Samson struck four sixes and was the only one of the visitors\u2019 batters to post a score of significance.<\/p>\n<p>Shivam Dube blazed his way to 26 from 12 deliveries before he was run out.<\/p>\n<p>Zimbabwe were still in the chase at 85 for three in the 13th over, but lost four wickets for the addition of 12 runs to lose momentum.<\/p>\n<p>Their collapse started with the loss of innings top scorer Dion Myers for 34 from 32 balls.<\/p>\n<p>Kumar was the pick of the tourists\u2019 bowlers with career-best figures as he took wickets at the start and end of the Zimbabwe innings, with fellow seamer Shivam Dube taking 2-25 in four overs.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>India beat Zimbabwe by 42 runs<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":58,"featured_media":965687,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[629,225],"tags":[1162,1233,1234],"class_list":["post-965686","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-cricket","category-sport","tag-cricket","tag-india","tag-zimbabwe"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/elections.sabc.co.za\/elections2024\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/965686","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/elections.sabc.co.za\/elections2024\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/elections.sabc.co.za\/elections2024\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/elections.sabc.co.za\/elections2024\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/58"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/elections.sabc.co.za\/elections2024\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=965686"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/elections.sabc.co.za\/elections2024\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/965686\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/elections.sabc.co.za\/elections2024\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/965687"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/elections.sabc.co.za\/elections2024\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=965686"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/elections.sabc.co.za\/elections2024\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=965686"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/elections.sabc.co.za\/elections2024\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=965686"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}