{"id":206308,"date":"2025-09-05T06:04:49","date_gmt":"2025-09-05T04:04:49","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/southern-africa\/zimbabwe\/nigeria-zimbabwe-women-thrash-nigeria-in-t20-qualifier-with-ruthless-10-wicket-win\/"},"modified":"2025-09-05T06:04:49","modified_gmt":"2025-09-05T04:04:49","slug":"nigeria-zimbabwe-women-thrash-nigeria-in-t20-qualifier-with-ruthless-10-wicket-win","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/southern-africa\/zimbabwe\/nigeria-zimbabwe-women-thrash-nigeria-in-t20-qualifier-with-ruthless-10-wicket-win\/","title":{"rendered":"Nigeria: Zimbabwe Women Thrash Nigeria in T20 Qualifier With Ruthless 10-Wicket Win"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<div>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"25\">Zimbabwe Women powered to a commanding 10-wicket victory over Nigeria in the ICC Women&#8217;s T20 World Cup Africa Qualifier underlining their credentials in the competition.<\/p>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"32\">Nigeria were bundled out for just 90 runs in 19.5 overs as Josephine Nkomo tore through the batting line-up with a remarkable five wickets for only six runs in her four-over spell.<\/p>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"11\">Her match-winning performance earned her the Player of the Match award.<\/p>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"22\">In reply, Zimbabwe made light work of the chase, with openers Kelis Ndhlovu and&#8230;<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/allafrica.com\/stories\/202509040419.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>Zimbabwe Women powered to a commanding 10-wicket victory over Nigeria in the ICC Women&#8217;s T20 World Cup Africa Qualifier underlining their credentials in the competition. Nigeria were bundled out for just 90 runs in 19.5 overs as Josephine Nkomo tore through the batting line-up with a remarkable five wickets for only six runs in her [&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":[52256,258,256,257,4687,8496,9814,254,13525,6760,6660,6524,4686,421],"class_list":["post-206308","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-zimbabwe","tag-10wicket","tag-africa","tag-africa-news","tag-news","tag-nigeria","tag-qualifier","tag-ruthless","tag-south-africa-today","tag-t20","tag-thrash","tag-win","tag-women","tag-zimbabwe","tag-zimbabwe-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/206308","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=206308"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/206308\/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=206308"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=206308"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=206308"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}