{"id":14333,"date":"2025-11-02T12:59:22","date_gmt":"2025-11-02T10:59:22","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/jhb-webdevelopers\/channelafrica\/news\/womens-world-cup-final-underway-after-rain-delay\/"},"modified":"2026-02-27T16:26:58","modified_gmt":"2026-02-27T14:26:58","slug":"womens-world-cup-final-underway-after-rain-delay","status":"publish","type":"news","link":"https:\/\/www.channelafrica.co.za\/channelafrica\/news\/womens-world-cup-final-underway-after-rain-delay\/","title":{"rendered":"Women\u2019s World Cup final underway after rain delay"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><!--StartFragment --><\/p>\n<p class=\"pf0\"><span class=\"cf0\">Good news for South African (SA) cricket fans.\u00a0\u00a0<\/span><span class=\"cf0\">South Africa won the toss and elected to bowl first.<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"pf0\"><span class=\"cf0\">The Proteas are playing in their first 50-over World Cup final, hoping to become the first senior national team from South Africa to win an ICC World Cup.<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"pf0\"><span class=\"cf0\">Hosts India have also not won a 50-over World Cup but are playing in their third final.<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"pf0\"><span class=\"cf0\">&#8211;SABC&#8211;<\/span><\/p>\n<p><!--EndFragment --><\/p>\n","protected":false},"featured_media":14334,"template":"","meta":{"_acf_changed":false},"news-type":[20],"class_list":["post-14333","news","type-news","status-publish","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","news-type-sport","entry"],"acf":{"short_description":"After a rain delay in Navi Mumbai, the highly anticipated Women\u2019s World Cup final between South Africa and India is now underway","published_date":"2025-11-02 00:00:00","news_description":"After a rain delay in Navi Mumbai, the highly anticipated Women\u2019s World Cup final between South Africa and India is now underway","form_embed":"","author":"","image_caption":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.channelafrica.co.za\/channelafrica\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news\/14333","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\/14333\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":19042,"href":"https:\/\/www.channelafrica.co.za\/channelafrica\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news\/14333\/revisions\/19042"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.channelafrica.co.za\/channelafrica\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/14334"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.channelafrica.co.za\/channelafrica\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=14333"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"news-type","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.channelafrica.co.za\/channelafrica\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news-type?post=14333"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}