{"id":216540,"date":"2025-12-13T10:11:50","date_gmt":"2025-12-13T08:11:50","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/southern-africa\/namibia\/namibia-de-kock-stars-as-sa-win-big-to-level-india-t20-series\/"},"modified":"2025-12-13T10:11:50","modified_gmt":"2025-12-13T08:11:50","slug":"namibia-de-kock-stars-as-sa-win-big-to-level-india-t20-series","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/southern-africa\/namibia\/namibia-de-kock-stars-as-sa-win-big-to-level-india-t20-series\/","title":{"rendered":"Namibia: De Kock Stars As SA Win Big to Level India T20 Series"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<div>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"29\"><em>Opener Quinton de Kock hit a 46-ball 90 to set up South Africa&#8217;s convincing 51-run win over India in the second T20 international and level the series on Thursday.<\/em><\/p>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"26\">De Kock&#8217;s knock laced with five fours and seven sixes powered South Africa to 213-4 after being invited to bat first on the outskirts of Chandigarh.<\/p>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"33\">South Africa bowled out India for 162 in 19.1 overs despite Tilak Varma&#8217;s valiant 62 off 34 balls as the visitors pulled one back after they lost the opener of the five-match series.<\/p>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" style=\"text-align: center;\">\n  <span style=\"font-size:...<\/span><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/allafrica.com\/stories\/202512120729.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Read more on AllAfrica.com<\/a><br \/>\n<br \/>South Africa Today Africa \u2013 Southern Africa <a title=\"Namibia\" href=\"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/category\/southern-africa\/namibia\/\">Namibia<\/a> News<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Opener Quinton de Kock hit a 46-ball 90 to set up South Africa&#8217;s convincing 51-run win over India in the second T20 international and level the series on Thursday. De Kock&#8217;s knock laced with five fours and seven sixes powered South Africa to 213-4 after being invited to bat first on the outskirts of Chandigarh. [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":11,"featured_media":216541,"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":[723],"tags":[258,256,8559,7447,53125,6431,4706,724,257,6761,254,9435,13525,6660],"class_list":["post-216540","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-namibia","tag-africa","tag-africa-news","tag-big","tag-india","tag-kock","tag-level","tag-namibia","tag-namibia-news","tag-news","tag-series","tag-south-africa-today","tag-stars","tag-t20","tag-win"],"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\/216540","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=216540"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/216540\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/216541"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=216540"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=216540"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=216540"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}