{"id":207436,"date":"2025-09-17T18:46:07","date_gmt":"2025-09-17T16:46:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/southern-africa\/zimbabwe\/namibia-zimbabwe-cruise-to-opening-t20-win\/"},"modified":"2025-09-17T18:46:07","modified_gmt":"2025-09-17T16:46:07","slug":"namibia-zimbabwe-cruise-to-opening-t20-win","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/southern-africa\/zimbabwe\/namibia-zimbabwe-cruise-to-opening-t20-win\/","title":{"rendered":"Namibia: Zimbabwe Cruise to Opening T20 Win"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<div>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"28\"><em>The Namibian Eagles got off to a losing start in their T20 series against Zimbabwe after going down by 33 runs in their first match at Bulawayo yesterday.<\/em><\/p>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"25\">After being sent in to bat, Zimbabwe&#8217;s batters piled on the runs as they reached a huge 211 for three wickets off their 20 overs.<\/p>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"33\">Namibia briefly managed to match the run rate but when they lost two wickets in quick succession their challenge faded as they were restricted to 178\/7, still 33 runs short of the target.<\/p>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" style=\"text-align: center;\">\n  <span style=\"font-size: 110%;\"><br \/>\nKeep up with the latest&#8230;<\/span><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/allafrica.com\/stories\/202509170504.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>The Namibian Eagles got off to a losing start in their T20 series against Zimbabwe after going down by 33 runs in their first match at Bulawayo yesterday. After being sent in to bat, Zimbabwe&#8217;s batters piled on the runs as they reached a huge 211 for three wickets off their 20 overs. Namibia briefly [&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":[258,256,10674,4706,257,11416,254,13525,6660,4686,421],"class_list":["post-207436","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-zimbabwe","tag-africa","tag-africa-news","tag-cruise","tag-namibia","tag-news","tag-opening","tag-south-africa-today","tag-t20","tag-win","tag-zimbabwe","tag-zimbabwe-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/207436","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=207436"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/207436\/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=207436"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=207436"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=207436"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}