{"id":201427,"date":"2025-07-02T14:00:02","date_gmt":"2025-07-02T12:00:02","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/southern-africa\/zimbabwe\/zimbabwe-masakadza-shines-but-zimbabwe-face-monumental-chase\/"},"modified":"2025-07-02T14:00:02","modified_gmt":"2025-07-02T12:00:02","slug":"zimbabwe-masakadza-shines-but-zimbabwe-face-monumental-chase","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/southern-africa\/zimbabwe\/zimbabwe-masakadza-shines-but-zimbabwe-face-monumental-chase\/","title":{"rendered":"Zimbabwe: Masakadza Shines but Zimbabwe Face Monumental Chase"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<div>\n<ul>\n<li><em><em>South Africa &#8211; 418-9 declared and 369 all out in 82.5 overs (Wiaan Mulder 147, Keshav Maharaj 51, Corbin Bosch 36; Wellington Masakadza 4\/98, Tanaka Chivanga 2\/76, Vincent Masekesa 2\/117)<\/em><\/em><\/li>\n<li><em><em>Zimbabwe &#8211; 251 and 32-1 in 18.2 overs (Takudzwanashe Kaitano 12, Prince Masvaure 5*; Corbin Bosch 1\/1)<\/em><\/em><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"39\">Wellington Masakadza claimed a career-best four-wicket haul, but Zimbabwe were left clinging to hope after South Africa set a towering fourth-innings target of 537 on day three of the first Test at Queens Sports&#8230;<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/allafrica.com\/stories\/202507020341.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>South Africa &#8211; 418-9 declared and 369 all out in 82.5 overs (Wiaan Mulder 147, Keshav Maharaj 51, Corbin Bosch 36; Wellington Masakadza 4\/98, Tanaka Chivanga 2\/76, Vincent Masekesa 2\/117) Zimbabwe &#8211; 251 and 32-1 in 18.2 overs (Takudzwanashe Kaitano 12, Prince Masvaure 5*; Corbin Bosch 1\/1) Wellington Masakadza claimed a career-best four-wicket haul, but [&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":[258,256,7842,7127,31068,33759,257,9249,254,4686,421],"class_list":["post-201427","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-zimbabwe","tag-africa","tag-africa-news","tag-chase","tag-face","tag-masakadza","tag-monumental","tag-news","tag-shines","tag-south-africa-today","tag-zimbabwe","tag-zimbabwe-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/201427","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=201427"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/201427\/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=201427"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=201427"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=201427"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}