{"id":13772,"date":"2025-10-25T14:41:45","date_gmt":"2025-10-25T12:41:45","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/jhb-webdevelopers\/channelafrica\/news\/proteas-women-to-face-england-in-icc-world-cup-semi-after-australia-loss\/"},"modified":"2026-02-27T16:26:35","modified_gmt":"2026-02-27T14:26:35","slug":"proteas-women-to-face-england-in-icc-world-cup-semi-after-australia-loss","status":"publish","type":"news","link":"https:\/\/www.channelafrica.co.za\/channelafrica\/news\/proteas-women-to-face-england-in-icc-world-cup-semi-after-australia-loss\/","title":{"rendered":"Proteas Women to face England in ICC World Cup semi after Australia loss"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The South African Women\u2019s Cricket team suffered another embarrassing batting collapse.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>This time in their final round-robin match of the International Cricket Council&#8217;s (ICC) Women\u2019s Cricket World Cup against Australia in Indore.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>The Proteas who were sent into bat, were skittled for a paltry 97 runs inside 25 overs. Leg-spinner Alana King was the destroyer-in-chief, finishing with figures of seven for just 18 runs in seven overs.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Australia reached the target of 98 in the 17th over for the loss of three wickets.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Both teams have already qualified for the semifinals of the tournament.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Australia who finished top of the log and will play fourth-placed India in the second semifinal on Thursday, while the Proteas Women will clash with England in the other semifinal on Wednesday.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&#8211;SABC&#8211;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"featured_media":13773,"template":"","meta":{"_acf_changed":false},"news-type":[20],"class_list":["post-13772","news","type-news","status-publish","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","news-type-sport","entry"],"acf":{"short_description":"South African Women\u2019s Cricket team suffered another embarrassing batting collapse","published_date":"2025-10-25 16:41:47","news_description":"South African Women\u2019s Cricket team suffered another embarrassing batting collapse","form_embed":"","author":"","image_caption":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.channelafrica.co.za\/channelafrica\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news\/13772","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.channelafrica.co.za\/channelafrica\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.channelafrica.co.za\/channelafrica\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/news"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.channelafrica.co.za\/channelafrica\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news\/13772\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":18738,"href":"https:\/\/www.channelafrica.co.za\/channelafrica\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news\/13772\/revisions\/18738"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.channelafrica.co.za\/channelafrica\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/13773"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.channelafrica.co.za\/channelafrica\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=13772"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"news-type","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.channelafrica.co.za\/channelafrica\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news-type?post=13772"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}