{"id":4980,"date":"2026-02-17T03:55:02","date_gmt":"2026-02-17T03:55:02","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/b2bexpress.in\/?p=4980"},"modified":"2026-02-17T03:55:02","modified_gmt":"2026-02-17T03:55:02","slug":"safety-first-approach-brittle-batting-why-pakistan-froze-before-indias-ingenuity","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/b2bexpress.in\/?p=4980","title":{"rendered":"Safety-first approach, brittle batting: Why Pakistan froze before India\u2019s ingenuity"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Pakistan&#8217;s meek surrender against India in the World Cup left fans bewildered. Despite possessing spinners suited for the slow Colombo pitch, Pakistan&#8217;s decision to field first and their batting approach proved costly. Poor form from Shaheen Afridi further hampered their efforts, leading to a defeat that highlighted their inability to learn from past mistakes.<\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Pakistan&#8217;s meek surrender against India in the World Cup left fans bewildered. Despite possessing spinners suited for the slow Colombo pitch, Pakistan&#8217;s decision to field first and their batting approach <a href=\"https:\/\/b2bexpress.in\/?p=4980\">Continue reading<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":4981,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"inline_featured_image":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-4980","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-business"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/b2bexpress.in\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4980","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/b2bexpress.in\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/b2bexpress.in\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/b2bexpress.in\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/b2bexpress.in\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=4980"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/b2bexpress.in\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4980\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/b2bexpress.in\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/4981"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/b2bexpress.in\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=4980"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/b2bexpress.in\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=4980"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/b2bexpress.in\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=4980"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}