{"id":232063,"date":"2026-05-01T15:58:12","date_gmt":"2026-05-01T13:58:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/southern-africa\/zimbabwe\/zimbabwe-nomvelo-sibanda-to-lead-as-zimbabwe-announce-squad-for-pakistan-tour\/"},"modified":"2026-05-01T15:58:12","modified_gmt":"2026-05-01T13:58:12","slug":"zimbabwe-nomvelo-sibanda-to-lead-as-zimbabwe-announce-squad-for-pakistan-tour","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/southern-africa\/zimbabwe\/zimbabwe-nomvelo-sibanda-to-lead-as-zimbabwe-announce-squad-for-pakistan-tour\/","title":{"rendered":"Zimbabwe: Nomvelo Sibanda to Lead As Zimbabwe Announce Squad for Pakistan Tour"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<div>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"43\">Nomvelo Sibanda will lead the side as Zimbabwe Cricket (ZC) unveiled a new-look women&#8217;s squad for their upcoming white-ball tour of Pakistan. The 15-player squad features 10 new faces with only five players retained from the previous tour against New Zealand in March.<\/p>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"31\">The six-match tour marks a historic milestone, as it will be Zimbabwe Women&#8217;s first-ever visit to Pakistan, with all matches set to be played at the National Bank Stadium in Karachi.<\/p>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"72\">The ODI series, scheduled for May 3, 6 and 9,&#8230;<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/allafrica.com\/stories\/202605010259.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>Nomvelo Sibanda will lead the side as Zimbabwe Cricket (ZC) unveiled a new-look women&#8217;s squad for their upcoming white-ball tour of Pakistan. The 15-player squad features 10 new faces with only five players retained from the previous tour against New Zealand in March. The six-match tour marks a historic milestone, as it will be Zimbabwe [&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":[258,256,15876,7358,257,54315,5174,10037,254,8984,8160,4686,421],"class_list":["post-232063","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-zimbabwe","tag-africa","tag-africa-news","tag-announce","tag-lead","tag-news","tag-nomvelo","tag-pakistan","tag-sibanda","tag-south-africa-today","tag-squad","tag-tour","tag-zimbabwe","tag-zimbabwe-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/232063","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=232063"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/232063\/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=232063"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=232063"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=232063"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}