{"id":202940,"date":"2025-07-21T15:15:29","date_gmt":"2025-07-21T13:15:29","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/southern-africa\/lesotho\/rwanda-crush-lesotho-in-t20-world-cup-africa-qualifier\/"},"modified":"2025-07-21T15:15:29","modified_gmt":"2025-07-21T13:15:29","slug":"rwanda-crush-lesotho-in-t20-world-cup-africa-qualifier","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/southern-africa\/lesotho\/rwanda-crush-lesotho-in-t20-world-cup-africa-qualifier\/","title":{"rendered":"Rwanda Crush Lesotho in T20 World Cup Africa Qualifier"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<div>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"37\">Rwanda women&#8217;s national cricket team kicked off their campaign at the 2025 ICC Women&#8217;s T20 World Cup Africa Qualifier (Division Two) with a dominant 10-wicket victory over Lesotho on Sunday, July 20, at Botswana Cricket Association Oval.<\/p>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"44\">In what turned out to be a one-sided affair, Lesotho won the toss and chose to bat first but struggled against Rwanda&#8217;s sharp bowling attack. They were bowled out for just 23 runs in 10.1 overs, with none of their batters reaching double figures.<\/p>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"24\">Kananelo Molapo&#8230;<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/allafrica.com\/stories\/202507210224.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>Rwanda women&#8217;s national cricket team kicked off their campaign at the 2025 ICC Women&#8217;s T20 World Cup Africa Qualifier (Division Two) with a dominant 10-wicket victory over Lesotho on Sunday, July 20, at Botswana Cricket Association Oval. In what turned out to be a one-sided affair, Lesotho won the toss and chose to bat first [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":11,"featured_media":202941,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"tdm_status":"","tdm_grid_status":"","fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/cdn.allafrica.com\/static\/images\/structure\/aa-logo-rgba-no-text-square.png","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[1406],"tags":[258,256,10329,6674,4717,1407,257,8496,4702,254,13525,5093],"class_list":["post-202940","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-lesotho","tag-africa","tag-africa-news","tag-crush","tag-cup","tag-lesotho","tag-lesotho-news","tag-news","tag-qualifier","tag-rwanda","tag-south-africa-today","tag-t20","tag-world"],"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/cdn.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\/202940","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=202940"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/202940\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/202941"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=202940"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=202940"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=202940"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}