{"id":442464,"date":"2026-01-28T07:45:08","date_gmt":"2026-01-28T07:45:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/442464\/"},"modified":"2026-01-28T07:45:08","modified_gmt":"2026-01-28T07:45:08","slug":"the-leadership-keeping-pakistan-locked-in-at-u19wc-icc-under-19-cricket-world-cup-2026","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/442464\/","title":{"rendered":"The leadership keeping Pakistan locked in at U19WC | ICC Under-19 Cricket World Cup, 2026"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.icc-cricket.com\/tournaments\/u19-cricket-worldcup-2026\/news\/india-pakistan-stay-in-semi-final-hunt-at-u19-world-cup\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">India clobbered Zimbabwe by 204 runs<\/a>, while Pakistan staged a comfortable <a href=\"https:\/\/www.icc-cricket.com\/tournaments\/u19-cricket-worldcup-2026\/matches\/267871\/pakistan-under-19-vs-new-zealand-under-19\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">eight-wicket win against New Zealand<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Pakistan did what they could to make net run rate gains as well, when it became clear what they needed to complete a swift run chase in the second innings. After the Kiwis were bowled out for just 110, the Pakistani top-order went to work, completing the job in 17.1 overs. And that was all part of the plan, as revealed by captain Farhan Yousaf.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Yes, it was pre-planned, because we won the toss and bowled first and (after New Zealand batted) our plan was an early run chase in minimum overs,&#8221; Yousaf said post-game.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;I feel very good as captain because it was our first win in the Super Six.&#8221;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"India clobbered Zimbabwe by 204 runs, while Pakistan staged a comfortable eight-wicket win against New Zealand. Pakistan did&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":442465,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[564],"tags":[64,63,740,95830,95836,214643,95841,214639,95853,95852,7301,214640,95851,214637,214647,95834,161130,90626,85,103412,214636,214642,214644,214646,214641,214645,214635,214638],"class_list":["post-442464","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-cricket","tag-au","tag-australia","tag-cricket","tag-cricket-headlines-today","tag-cricket-live-score","tag-cricket-match-live-score","tag-cricket-scorecard-live","tag-cricket-world-cup-2026","tag-cricket-world-cup-live-score","tag-cricket-world-cup-news","tag-icc","tag-icc-cricket-news","tag-icc-cricket-updates","tag-icc-under-19-world-cup","tag-icc-youth-tournaments","tag-international-cricket-news","tag-junior-cricket","tag-latest-cricket-news","tag-sports","tag-today-cricket-match-score","tag-u19-cricket-world-cup-2026","tag-u19-live-score-today","tag-under-19-cricket-fixtures","tag-under-19-cricket-highlights","tag-under-19-cricket-live-score","tag-under-19-cricket-results","tag-under-19-cricket-world-cup","tag-youth-cricket"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/442464","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=442464"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/442464\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/442465"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=442464"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=442464"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=442464"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}