{"id":185770,"date":"2024-12-03T00:57:47","date_gmt":"2024-12-02T22:57:47","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/southern-africa\/botswana\/nigeria-cricket-nigeria-beat-botswana-to-lift-wcq-trophy\/"},"modified":"2024-12-03T00:57:47","modified_gmt":"2024-12-02T22:57:47","slug":"nigeria-cricket-nigeria-beat-botswana-to-lift-wcq-trophy","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/southern-africa\/botswana\/nigeria-cricket-nigeria-beat-botswana-to-lift-wcq-trophy\/","title":{"rendered":"Nigeria: Cricket &#8211; Nigeria Beat Botswana to Lift WCQ Trophy"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<div>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"35\">The Nigerian Men&#8217;s National Cricket Team emerged the winner of the International Cricket Council T20 World Cup Sub Regional Africa Qualifier C concluded at the cricket oval of the Moshood Abiola National Stadium in Abuja.<\/p>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"17\">Nigeria beat Botswana by 77 runs to seal their unbeaten run in the five-match World Cup Qualifier.<\/p>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"21\">Nigeria won the toss and elected to bat first, and set 13.00 in the first over to signal a high-scoring inning.<\/p>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"26\">Tharindu Perera, stepped up and got the wicket of opener Selim Salau&#8230;<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/allafrica.com\/stories\/202412020659.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Read more on AllAfrica.com<\/a><br \/>\n<br \/>South Africa Today Africa \u2013 Southern Africa <a title=\"Botswana\" href=\"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/category\/southern-africa\/botswana\/\">Botswana<\/a> News<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Nigerian Men&#8217;s National Cricket Team emerged the winner of the International Cricket Council T20 World Cup Sub Regional Africa Qualifier C concluded at the cricket oval of the Moshood Abiola National Stadium in Abuja. Nigeria beat Botswana by 77 runs to seal their unbeaten run in the five-match World Cup Qualifier. Nigeria won the [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":11,"featured_media":185771,"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":[2461],"tags":[258,256,5065,4718,2462,7026,12108,257,4687,254,13507,40481],"class_list":["post-185770","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-botswana","tag-africa","tag-africa-news","tag-beat","tag-botswana","tag-botswana-news","tag-cricket","tag-lift","tag-news","tag-nigeria","tag-south-africa-today","tag-trophy","tag-wcq"],"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\/185770","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=185770"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/185770\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/185771"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=185770"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=185770"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=185770"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}