{"id":302409,"date":"2025-12-07T01:41:08","date_gmt":"2025-12-07T01:41:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/302409\/"},"modified":"2025-12-07T01:41:08","modified_gmt":"2025-12-07T01:41:08","slug":"international-league-t20-pathum-nissanka-makes-second-consecutive-50-in-giants-win","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/302409\/","title":{"rendered":"International League T20: Pathum Nissanka makes second consecutive 50 in Giants win"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Pathum Nissanka hit his second consecutive half-century as Gulf Giants beat Dubai Capitals <a href=\"https:\/\/www.bbc.co.uk\/sport\/cricket\/scorecard\/e-231125\" class=\"ssrcss-k8mrr8-InlineLink e1kn3p7n0\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">by four wickets<\/a> in the International League T20.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Chasing 161, the opener struck six fours and five sixes in a 31-ball 67, putting on 97 for the second wicket with James Vince, who finished with an unbeaten 50.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">The Sri Lanka batter&#8217;s dismissal, caught by Jordan Cox off Mustafizur Rahman, started a run where Giants lost five wickets for 51 runs, but their scoring didn&#8217;t stall and they reached their target with seven balls to spare.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">English batters Jordan Cox and David Willey made 29 and 31 respectively for Capitals after they were put into bat.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">All of the Dubai side&#8217;s top six made it into double figures but Sediqullah Atal was their top-scorer with 35, while captain Dasun Shanaka, batting at number eight, struck an unbroken 23 from nine deliveries as his side closed on 160-6.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">That wasn&#8217;t enough to stop Giants, who also beat MI Emirates in their opening game following Nissanka&#8217;s 81.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Meanwhile defending champions Capitals start their season with back-to-back defeats.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Pathum Nissanka hit his second consecutive half-century as Gulf Giants beat Dubai Capitals by four wickets in the&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":302410,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[34],"tags":[1721,101,56,54,55],"class_list":["post-302409","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-cricket","tag-cricket","tag-sports","tag-uk","tag-united-kingdom","tag-unitedkingdom"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/302409","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=302409"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/302409\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/302410"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=302409"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=302409"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=302409"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}