{"id":24530,"date":"2023-07-26T20:53:59","date_gmt":"2023-07-26T11:53:59","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/cricket.or.jp\/?p=24530"},"modified":"2023-09-01T12:07:49","modified_gmt":"2023-09-01T03:07:49","slug":"%e3%83%ac%e3%83%9d%e3%83%bc%e3%83%88%ef%bd%9c%e6%97%a5%e6%9c%ac-%e5%af%be-%e3%83%95%e3%82%a3%e3%83%aa%e3%83%94%e3%83%b3%ef%bc%88%e7%94%b7%e5%ad%90w%e6%9d%af%e6%9d%b1%e3%82%a2%e3%82%b8%e3%82%a2-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/cricket.or.jp\/en\/%e3%83%ac%e3%83%9d%e3%83%bc%e3%83%88%ef%bd%9c%e6%97%a5%e6%9c%ac-%e5%af%be-%e3%83%95%e3%82%a3%e3%83%aa%e3%83%94%e3%83%b3%ef%bc%88%e7%94%b7%e5%ad%90w%e6%9d%af%e6%9d%b1%e3%82%a2%e3%82%b8%e3%82%a2-2\/","title":{"rendered":"Japan Win Third Match at Regional Final"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Japan were indebted to firstly to the bat of Sabaorish Ravichandran, and then to the bowling unit which proved too strong for the Philippines.<\/p>\n<p>Batting first Japan were under pressure at 43 for three when Ravichandran entered the fray, and his 41 from 26 balls shifted momentum decisively.<\/p>\n<p>When Japan completed their innings, a total of 127 was going to require the bowlers to be at their best to see the team home.<\/p>\n<p>The Philippines opening batters, Russ (43*) and Samra (25) made a steady start, taking them to 47 in the tenth over before Declan Suzuki knocked back Samra\u2019s middle stump.<\/p>\n<p>From there the bowlers began to really stifle the batters with Piyush Kumbhare and Ravichandran economical as ever.<\/p>\n<p>The run rate required continued to rise and culminated in a 33-run win for Japan, achieved with several players off the field with injury.<\/p>\n<p>Speaking after the match captain Kendel Kadowaki-Fleming said: \u201cwe\u2019ve got a few injuries to assess, but I\u2019m confident I\u2019ll be fine. It was great to see Reo (Sakurano) step up and lead the team in the field, he did a great job.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Tomorrow is a rest day for Japan with Vanuatu following that on Friday morning.<\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Japan were indebted to firstly to the bat of Sabaorish Ravichandran, and then to the bowling unit which proved too strong for the Philippines. Batting first Japan were under pressure&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":274,"featured_media":25028,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[54],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-24530","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-mens-national-team"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/cricket.or.jp\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24530","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/cricket.or.jp\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/cricket.or.jp\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cricket.or.jp\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/274"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cricket.or.jp\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=24530"}],"version-history":[{"count":9,"href":"https:\/\/cricket.or.jp\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24530\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":24573,"href":"https:\/\/cricket.or.jp\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24530\/revisions\/24573"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cricket.or.jp\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/25028"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/cricket.or.jp\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=24530"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cricket.or.jp\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=24530"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cricket.or.jp\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=24530"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}