{"id":179699,"date":"2024-09-01T16:11:59","date_gmt":"2024-09-01T14:11:59","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/southern-africa\/lesotho\/rwanda-womens-t20-wc-qualifier-malawi-u19-march-into-division-1-after-massive-win-against-lesotho\/"},"modified":"2024-09-01T16:11:59","modified_gmt":"2024-09-01T14:11:59","slug":"rwanda-womens-t20-wc-qualifier-malawi-u19-march-into-division-1-after-massive-win-against-lesotho","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/southern-africa\/lesotho\/rwanda-womens-t20-wc-qualifier-malawi-u19-march-into-division-1-after-massive-win-against-lesotho\/","title":{"rendered":"Rwanda: Women&#8217;s T20 Wc Qualifier &#8211; Malawi U19 March Into Division 1 After Massive Win Against Lesotho"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<div>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"37\">century, and Esther Richard claimed a career-best 5 for 4 runs as Malawi crushed Lesotho by a mammoth 154 runs to seal their slot at next month&#8217;s ICC U19 Women&#8217;s T20 World Cup Africa Qualifier in Kigali.<\/p>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"22\">Malawi opted to bat after winning the toss, but stumbled early on as their top three batters failed to reach double digits.<\/p>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"43\">However, Malefula steadied the ship with a career-best knock of 77 off 50 balls. She was well supported by her Captain, Sophina Chinawa, who chipped in with a quick-fire 22&#8230;<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/allafrica.com\/stories\/202408270268.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Read more on AllAfrica.com<\/a><br \/>\n<br \/>South Africa Today Africa \u2013 Southern Africa <a title=\"Lesotho\" href=\"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/category\/southern-africa\/lesotho\/\">Lesotho<\/a> News<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>century, and Esther Richard claimed a career-best 5 for 4 runs as Malawi crushed Lesotho by a mammoth 154 runs to seal their slot at next month&#8217;s ICC U19 Women&#8217;s T20 World Cup Africa Qualifier in Kigali. Malawi opted to bat after winning the toss, but stumbled early on as their top three batters failed [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":11,"featured_media":179700,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"tdm_status":"","tdm_grid_status":"","fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/cdn08.allafrica.com\/static\/images\/structure\/aa-logo-rgba-no-text-square.png","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[1406],"tags":[258,256,13653,4717,1407,5028,9677,6958,257,8496,4702,254,13525,7790,6660,6460],"class_list":["post-179699","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-lesotho","tag-africa","tag-africa-news","tag-division","tag-lesotho","tag-lesotho-news","tag-malawi","tag-march","tag-massive","tag-news","tag-qualifier","tag-rwanda","tag-south-africa-today","tag-t20","tag-u19","tag-win","tag-womens"],"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/cdn08.allafrica.com\/static\/images\/structure\/aa-logo-rgba-no-text-square.png","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/179699","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/11"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=179699"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/179699\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/179700"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=179699"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=179699"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=179699"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}