{"id":127536,"date":"2018-02-03T12:24:30","date_gmt":"2018-02-03T06:54:30","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/greattelangaana.com\/english\/?p=127536"},"modified":"2018-02-03T12:24:30","modified_gmt":"2018-02-03T06:54:30","slug":"merlo-makes-76","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/greattelangaana.com\/english\/merlo-makes-76\/","title":{"rendered":"Merlo makes 76"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Jonathan Merlo made a solid 76 before the India&#8217;s left-arm spin duo of Shiva Singh and Anukul Roy sprung into action, limiting the opposition to 216 all out in the ICC U-19 World Cup final on Saturday.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">At 183 for four, Australia looked well on course to reach 250 in a high-pressure until the Indian spinners engineered the collapse with Jason Sangha-led side losing its last six wickets for 33 runs.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-127537 aligncenter\" src=\"https:\/\/greattelangaana.com\/english\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/02\/Untitled-design-65.jpg\" alt=\"Merlo makes 76\" width=\"380\" height=\"285\" \/><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Australia, who had little hesitation in batting first, were guilty of not converting starts into big partnerships. Merlo and Param Uppal (34) were involved in a 75-run stand for the fourth wicket before the innings&#8217; top-scorer shared 49-runs with Nathan McSweeney (23) to set the platform for a competitive total.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">However, the momentum shifted hugely into India&#8217;s favour when Shiva (2\/36) set up Sweeney to have the batsman caught and bowled, leaving Australia at 183 for five.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Jonathan Merlo made a solid 76 before the India&#8217;s left-arm spin duo of Shiva Singh and Anukul Roy sprung into action, limiting the opposition to 216 all out in the ICC U-19 World Cup final on Saturday. At 183 for four, Australia looked well on course to reach 250 in a high-pressure until the Indian [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":127538,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[29609,2],"tags":[65233,3345,65234,510,65231,65230,65236,65232,65235],"class_list":["post-127536","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-sports-news","category-top-stories","tag-anukul-roy","tag-australia","tag-icc-u-19","tag-india","tag-jonathan-merlo","tag-merlo-makes-76","tag-param-uppal","tag-shiva-singh","tag-world-cup-final"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/greattelangaana.com\/english\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/02\/904674928.jpg","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/greattelangaana.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/127536","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/greattelangaana.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/greattelangaana.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/greattelangaana.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/greattelangaana.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=127536"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/greattelangaana.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/127536\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/greattelangaana.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/127538"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/greattelangaana.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=127536"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/greattelangaana.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=127536"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/greattelangaana.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=127536"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}