{"id":9160,"date":"2018-09-13T21:34:30","date_gmt":"2018-09-13T12:34:30","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/cricket.or.jp\/?p=9160"},"modified":"2018-09-14T17:19:30","modified_gmt":"2018-09-14T08:19:30","slug":"%e6%9d%b1%e3%82%a2%e3%82%b8%e3%82%a2%e3%82%ab%e3%83%83%e3%83%97%ef%bc%9a%e6%97%a5%e6%9c%ac%e3%81%8c%e9%a6%99%e6%b8%af%e3%83%89%e3%83%a9%e3%82%b4%e3%83%b3%e3%82%ba%e3%81%ab%e5%bf%ab%e5%8b%9d%ef%bc%81","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/cricket.or.jp\/en\/%e6%9d%b1%e3%82%a2%e3%82%b8%e3%82%a2%e3%82%ab%e3%83%83%e3%83%97%ef%bc%9a%e6%97%a5%e6%9c%ac%e3%81%8c%e9%a6%99%e6%b8%af%e3%83%89%e3%83%a9%e3%82%b4%e3%83%b3%e3%82%ba%e3%81%ab%e5%bf%ab%e5%8b%9d%ef%bc%81\/","title":{"rendered":"Japan Win Opening Match in East Asia Cup"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Japan defeated Hong Kong Dragons to start the East Asia Cup in fine style with a win by 49 runs. <\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Captain Masaomi Kobayashi was the star with the bat scoring 52 from 23 balls including five huge sixes. The innings finished with Kohei Wakita smashing 14 from three balls to lift Japan to 155\/8 from their 20 overs.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-medium wp-image-9161\" src=\"https:\/\/cricket.or.jp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/09\/Japan-vs-HKD-2-300x200.jpeg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"200\" srcset=\"https:\/\/cricket.or.jp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/09\/Japan-vs-HKD-2-300x200.jpeg 300w, https:\/\/cricket.or.jp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/09\/Japan-vs-HKD-2-768x512.jpeg 768w, https:\/\/cricket.or.jp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/09\/Japan-vs-HKD-2-1024x682.jpeg 1024w, https:\/\/cricket.or.jp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/09\/Japan-vs-HKD-2.jpeg 1600w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/>Japan were excellent when fielding and the highlight was 15-year-old Kazumasa Takahashi, who became Japan\u2019s youngest ever player, taking a wicket with his very first ball and finishing with three wickets for just two runs. <\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Japan bowled Hong Kong Dragons all out for 106, Wakita also taking three wickets, to win by 49 runs. <\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Kobayashi was given the Man of the Match Award. Japan will play Korea tomorrow. Updates are posted every five overs on the JCA Twitter account and live scores are available on CricHQ and Cricinfo.<\/span><\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Japan defeated Hong Kong Dragons to start the East Asia Cup in fine style with a win by 49 runs. Captain Masaomi Kobayashi was the star with the bat scoring&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":19,"featured_media":9162,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[54],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-9160","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\/9160","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\/19"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cricket.or.jp\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=9160"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/cricket.or.jp\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9160\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":9189,"href":"https:\/\/cricket.or.jp\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9160\/revisions\/9189"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cricket.or.jp\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/9162"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/cricket.or.jp\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=9160"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cricket.or.jp\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=9160"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cricket.or.jp\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=9160"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}