{"id":2477,"date":"2025-03-06T11:23:47","date_gmt":"2025-03-06T11:23:47","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.peakpoint.pk\/en\/?p=2477"},"modified":"2025-03-06T11:23:47","modified_gmt":"2025-03-06T11:23:47","slug":"historic-presidents-trophy-final-features-pink-ball-and-rare-timed-out-dismissal","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.peakpoint.pk\/en\/2025\/03\/06\/historic-presidents-trophy-final-features-pink-ball-and-rare-timed-out-dismissal\/","title":{"rendered":"Historic President\u2019s Trophy Final Features Pink Ball and Rare Timed-Out Dismissal"},"content":{"rendered":"<p data-start=\"87\" data-end=\"566\">Pakistan&#8217;s President\u2019s Trophy final is rewriting the record books with the use of a pink ball under lights, a move necessitated by the ongoing Ramadan fast.<\/p>\n<p data-start=\"87\" data-end=\"566\">The match, played at Rawalpindi Stadium, has seen unconventional session timings, with some sessions stretching well past midnight and play concluding at 2:30 AM local time.<\/p>\n<p data-start=\"87\" data-end=\"566\">The final is contested between Pakistan Television (PTV) and State Bank of Pakistan (SBP), with both teams finishing the group stage tied on points.<\/p>\n<p data-start=\"568\" data-end=\"904\">In this historic fixture, play begins at 7:30 PM PKT after Iftar, with the first session followed by a tea break at 9:30 PM. The second session continues until 11:50 PM, and the final session starts at 12:20 AM.<\/p>\n<p data-start=\"568\" data-end=\"904\">Read More:\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.peakpoint.pk\/en\/2025\/03\/06\/saud-shakeel-falls-to-rare-timed-out-dismissal-in-presidents-trophy-final\/\">Saud Shakeel Falls to Rare Timed-Out Dismissal in President\u2019s Trophy Final<\/a><\/p>\n<p data-start=\"568\" data-end=\"904\">This altered schedule led to an extraordinary cricketing event: SBP lost four wickets in the space of just three deliveries.<\/p>\n<p data-start=\"906\" data-end=\"1395\" data-is-last-node=\"\" data-is-only-node=\"\">Fast bowler Muhammad Shahzad took two wickets in consecutive balls, and a third fell when Pakistan batter Saud Shakeel was timed out \u2014 a rare dismissal in first-class cricket, occurring for only the seventh time in history.<\/p>\n<p data-start=\"906\" data-end=\"1395\" data-is-last-node=\"\" data-is-only-node=\"\">Shahzad completed a remarkable hat-trick with the very next delivery, reducing SBP from 128-1 to 128-5. The team eventually finished their first innings with 205 runs.<\/p>\n<p data-start=\"906\" data-end=\"1395\" data-is-last-node=\"\" data-is-only-node=\"\">In reply, PTV&#8217;s Shahzad and Waqar Hussain scored centuries, guiding their team to a total of 317.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Pakistan&#8217;s President\u2019s Trophy final is rewriting the record books with the use of a pink ball under lights, a move necessitated by the ongoing Ramadan fast. The match, played at Rawalpindi Stadium, has seen unconventional session timings, with some sessions stretching well past midnight and play concluding at 2:30 AM local time. The final is &hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5,"featured_media":2478,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[13],"tags":[402,403,404],"class_list":["post-2477","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-sports","tag-cricket-collapse","tag-presidents-trophy-final","tag-sbp-collapse"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.peakpoint.pk\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2477","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.peakpoint.pk\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.peakpoint.pk\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.peakpoint.pk\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/5"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.peakpoint.pk\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2477"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.peakpoint.pk\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2477\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2479,"href":"https:\/\/www.peakpoint.pk\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2477\/revisions\/2479"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.peakpoint.pk\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2478"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.peakpoint.pk\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2477"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.peakpoint.pk\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2477"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.peakpoint.pk\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2477"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}