{"id":24596,"date":"2023-07-29T17:36:03","date_gmt":"2023-07-29T08:36:03","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/cricket.or.jp\/?p=24596"},"modified":"2023-08-08T18:14:53","modified_gmt":"2023-08-08T09:14:53","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%91%e3%83%97%e3%82%a2%e3%83%8b%e3%83%a5%e3%83%bc%e3%82%ae%e3%83%8b%e3%82%a2%ef%bc%88%e7%94%b7%e5%ad%90w%e6%9d%af-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%91%e3%83%97%e3%82%a2%e3%83%8b%e3%83%a5%e3%83%bc%e3%82%ae%e3%83%8b%e3%82%a2%ef%bc%88%e7%94%b7%e5%ad%90w%e6%9d%af-2\/","title":{"rendered":"Japan Second; PNG Make World Cup"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Japan finished second at the East Asia Pacific Regional Final as Papua New Guinea qualified for the 2024 T20 World Cup in the USA and Caribbean.<\/p>\n<p>In the final match of the tournament Japan made a good start with Kendel Kadowaki-Fleming and Declan\u2019s Suzuki-McComb striking the ball cleanly.<\/p>\n<p>However a disastrous fifth over left the team reeling at 27 for four, which became 37 for five soon after when the captain became the latest victim for Normal Vanua.<\/p>\n<p>A rebuilding job was done by Reo Sakurano-Thomas (30) and Wataru Miyauchi (18), who put on 51 in ten overs before Vanua returned to claim his fourth victim on his way to the match MVP award.<\/p>\n<p>A final score of 106 for eight did not look enough against the strong PNG batting line up, and Tony Ura was imperious at the start.<\/p>\n<p>Ura struck boundaries at will on his way to a 19-ball 47, before falling to Kohei Kubota (three for 11).<\/p>\n<p>Japan showed great fight in the field, Ryan Drake and Suzuki-McComb holding two good catches each, but the score simply was not enough as the hosts finished the tournament with six wins from six, the last by six wickets.<\/p>\n<p>With 218 runs for the tournament, captain Kadowaki-Fleming left with the best batter award in recognition of his fine form throughout the tournament.<\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Japan finished second at the East Asia Pacific Regional Final as Papua New Guinea qualified for the 2024 T20 World Cup in the USA and Caribbean. In the final match&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":274,"featured_media":24599,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[54],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-24596","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\/24596","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=24596"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/cricket.or.jp\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24596\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":24769,"href":"https:\/\/cricket.or.jp\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24596\/revisions\/24769"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cricket.or.jp\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/24599"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/cricket.or.jp\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=24596"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cricket.or.jp\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=24596"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cricket.or.jp\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=24596"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}