{"id":327800,"date":"2025-12-21T07:48:08","date_gmt":"2025-12-21T07:48:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/327800\/"},"modified":"2025-12-21T07:48:08","modified_gmt":"2025-12-21T07:48:08","slug":"vipers-seal-top-two-finish-after-paynes-incisive-new-ball-spell","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/327800\/","title":{"rendered":"Vipers seal top-two finish after Payne&#8217;s incisive new-ball spell"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The decision to bat first backfired badly for Sharjah Warriorz as they were bundled out below 100, never once finding any rhythm against a disciplined Vipers attack. Payne set the tone up front with a superb new-ball spell, removing both openers inside the first five overs and finishing with excellent figures of 3 for 14 from four overs. Tom Abell was the lone batter to show resistance, batting deep for his 35 off 36, while Ethan D&#8217;Souza chipped in with a measured 18. However, scoring was consistently difficult on a surface that offered early swing and later grip, and the Warriorz limped to 60 for 3 at the halfway stage.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The decision to bat first backfired badly for Sharjah Warriorz as they were bundled out below 100, never&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":327801,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[34],"tags":[2325,27998,94025,1721,123160,123159,120589,122008,101,56,54,55],"class_list":{"0":"post-327800","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-cricket","8":"tag-2325","9":"tag-2025-26","10":"tag-22nd-match","11":"tag-cricket","12":"tag-david-payne","13":"tag-desert-vipers","14":"tag-international-league-t20","15":"tag-sharjah-warriorz","16":"tag-sports","17":"tag-uk","18":"tag-united-kingdom","19":"tag-unitedkingdom"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/327800","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=327800"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/327800\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/327801"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=327800"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=327800"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=327800"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}