{"id":234793,"date":"2026-05-29T17:00:14","date_gmt":"2026-05-29T15:00:14","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/southern-africa\/zimbabwe\/zimbabwe-proteas-women-are-heading-to-zimbabwe-for-the-first-time-in-history\/"},"modified":"2026-05-29T17:00:14","modified_gmt":"2026-05-29T15:00:14","slug":"zimbabwe-proteas-women-are-heading-to-zimbabwe-for-the-first-time-in-history","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/southern-africa\/zimbabwe\/zimbabwe-proteas-women-are-heading-to-zimbabwe-for-the-first-time-in-history\/","title":{"rendered":"Zimbabwe: Proteas Women Are Heading to Zimbabwe for the First Time in History"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<div>\n<ul>\n<li>The Proteas Women face Zimbabwe Women at Queens Sports Club in Bulawayo from 11 to 19 September in five T20I matches.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<ul>\n<li>Queens Sports Club has hosted men&#8217;s international cricket for decades but has never staged a dedicated senior women&#8217;s bilateral series until now.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"36\">South Africa and Zimbabwe will play women&#8217;s cricket against each other for the first time as senior bilateral rivals. The five-match T20I series runs from 11 to 19 September at the Queens Sports Club in Bulawayo.<\/p>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"23\">The ground has staged&#8230;<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/allafrica.com\/stories\/202605290509.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 Proteas Women face Zimbabwe Women at Queens Sports Club in Bulawayo from 11 to 19 September in five T20I matches. Queens Sports Club has hosted men&#8217;s international cricket for decades but has never staged a dedicated senior women&#8217;s bilateral series until now. South Africa and Zimbabwe will play women&#8217;s cricket against each other for [&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":[258,256,12023,7099,257,24265,254,6599,6524,4686,421],"class_list":["post-234793","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-zimbabwe","tag-africa","tag-africa-news","tag-heading","tag-history","tag-news","tag-proteas","tag-south-africa-today","tag-time","tag-women","tag-zimbabwe","tag-zimbabwe-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/234793","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=234793"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/234793\/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=234793"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=234793"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=234793"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}