{"id":192043,"date":"2025-02-22T18:15:58","date_gmt":"2025-02-22T16:15:58","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/southern-africa\/zimbabwe\/zimbabwe-curran-joins-zim-cricket-history-books\/"},"modified":"2025-02-22T18:15:58","modified_gmt":"2025-02-22T16:15:58","slug":"zimbabwe-curran-joins-zim-cricket-history-books","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/southern-africa\/zimbabwe\/zimbabwe-curran-joins-zim-cricket-history-books\/","title":{"rendered":"Zimbabwe: Curran Joins Zim Cricket History Books"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<div>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"41\">Ben Curran on Tuesday became the first member of the famed Curran family to slam an international century as Zimbabwe defeated Ireland in the third and final One Day International cricket match at Harare Sports Club to clinch the series 2-1.<\/p>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"41\">Ben, the middle of three sons of former Zimbabwe cricketer Kevin Curran and brother to England duo Sam and Tom, who made his international debut last year, struck a career-best 118* to lead Zimbabwe to a commanding nine-wicket win over Ireland.<\/p>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"41\">A regular in&#8230;<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/allafrica.com\/stories\/202502210551.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Read more on AllAfrica.com<\/a><br \/>\n<br \/>South Africa Today Africa \u2013 Southern Africa <a title=\"Zimbabwe\" href=\"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/category\/southern-africa\/zimbabwe\/\">Zimbabwe<\/a> News<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Ben Curran on Tuesday became the first member of the famed Curran family to slam an international century as Zimbabwe defeated Ireland in the third and final One Day International cricket match at Harare Sports Club to clinch the series 2-1. Ben, the middle of three sons of former Zimbabwe cricketer Kevin Curran and brother [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":11,"featured_media":188473,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"tdm_status":"","tdm_grid_status":"","fifu_image_url":"","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[248],"tags":[258,256,14167,7026,50692,7099,5046,257,254,6923,4686,421],"class_list":["post-192043","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-zimbabwe","tag-africa","tag-africa-news","tag-books","tag-cricket","tag-curran","tag-history","tag-joins","tag-news","tag-south-africa-today","tag-zim","tag-zimbabwe","tag-zimbabwe-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/192043","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=192043"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/192043\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/188473"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=192043"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=192043"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=192043"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}