{"id":236716,"date":"2026-06-18T17:51:01","date_gmt":"2026-06-18T15:51:01","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/southern-africa\/zimbabwe\/zimbabwe-kwibuka-t20i-rwanda-zimbabwe-lead-race-to-final\/"},"modified":"2026-06-18T17:51:01","modified_gmt":"2026-06-18T15:51:01","slug":"zimbabwe-kwibuka-t20i-rwanda-zimbabwe-lead-race-to-final","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/southern-africa\/zimbabwe\/zimbabwe-kwibuka-t20i-rwanda-zimbabwe-lead-race-to-final\/","title":{"rendered":"Zimbabwe: Kwibuka T20i &#8211; Rwanda, Zimbabwe Lead Race to Final"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<div>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"27\">With only a few matches remaining before the final, the race for a place in the Kwibuka Women&#8217;s T20I Tournament 2026 final is becoming tight in Kigali.<\/p>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"27\">Rwanda and Zimbabwe HPC have strengthened their positions at the top of the standings, while Nigeria and Brazil continue to battle for a possible top two finish.<\/p>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"38\">Zimbabwe HPC took a major step towards the final on Tuesday with a convincing 37 run victory over Nigeria. After posting 126\/7 in their 20 overs, Zimbabwe HPC restricted Nigeria to just 89&#8230;<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/allafrica.com\/stories\/202606180352.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>With only a few matches remaining before the final, the race for a place in the Kwibuka Women&#8217;s T20I Tournament 2026 final is becoming tight in Kigali. Rwanda and Zimbabwe HPC have strengthened their positions at the top of the standings, while Nigeria and Brazil continue to battle for a possible top two finish. 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":[258,256,6038,48644,7358,257,5146,4702,254,41912,4686,421],"class_list":["post-236716","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-zimbabwe","tag-africa","tag-africa-news","tag-final","tag-kwibuka","tag-lead","tag-news","tag-race","tag-rwanda","tag-south-africa-today","tag-t20i","tag-zimbabwe","tag-zimbabwe-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/236716","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=236716"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/236716\/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=236716"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=236716"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=236716"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}