{"id":202479,"date":"2025-07-15T14:27:00","date_gmt":"2025-07-15T12:27:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/southern-africa\/zimbabwe\/south-africa-proteas-bounce-back-to-beat-zimbabwe-in-thrilling-t20-opener\/"},"modified":"2025-07-15T14:27:00","modified_gmt":"2025-07-15T12:27:00","slug":"south-africa-proteas-bounce-back-to-beat-zimbabwe-in-thrilling-t20-opener","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/southern-africa\/zimbabwe\/south-africa-proteas-bounce-back-to-beat-zimbabwe-in-thrilling-t20-opener\/","title":{"rendered":"South Africa: Proteas Bounce Back to Beat Zimbabwe in Thrilling T20 Opener"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<div>\n<ul>\n<li><em>Proteas recover from shaky start, losing three wickets early to beat Zimbabwe by five wickets in tri-series opener<\/em><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<ul>\n<li><strong>Dewald Brevis smashes an explosive 41 off 17 balls with five sixes while George Linde takes 3\/10 to restrict the hosts.<\/strong><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"24\">In a nail-biting T20 International tri-series opener, South Africa were victorious against Zimbabwe, chasing down a target of 142 with four overs to spare.<\/p>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"21\">Zimbabwe&#8217;s top order was held back by South Africa&#8217;s main bowlers after the hosts were put in to bat in&#8230;<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/allafrica.com\/stories\/202507150118.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>Proteas recover from shaky start, losing three wickets early to beat Zimbabwe by five wickets in tri-series opener Dewald Brevis smashes an explosive 41 off 17 balls with five sixes while George Linde takes 3\/10 to restrict the hosts. In a nail-biting T20 International tri-series opener, South Africa were victorious against Zimbabwe, chasing down a [&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":[258,256,5065,4420,257,13937,24265,5069,254,13525,26544,4686,421],"class_list":["post-202479","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-zimbabwe","tag-africa","tag-africa-news","tag-beat","tag-bounce","tag-news","tag-opener","tag-proteas","tag-south","tag-south-africa-today","tag-t20","tag-thrilling","tag-zimbabwe","tag-zimbabwe-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/202479","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=202479"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/202479\/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=202479"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=202479"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=202479"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}