{"id":20802,"date":"2025-12-10T10:29:38","date_gmt":"2025-12-10T08:29:38","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/jhb-webdevelopers\/channelafrica\/news\/india-thump-proteas-in-first-t20\/"},"modified":"2026-02-27T16:32:02","modified_gmt":"2026-02-27T14:32:02","slug":"india-thump-proteas-in-first-t20","status":"publish","type":"news","link":"https:\/\/www.channelafrica.co.za\/channelafrica\/news\/india-thump-proteas-in-first-t20\/","title":{"rendered":"India thump Proteas in first T20"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: left;\">The South African cricket team\u2019s preparations for the International Cricket Council (ICC) T20 World Cup in India in February, have gotten off to an unpromising start.<\/p>\n<p>India thumped the Proteas by 101 runs in the first of five T20 Internationals in Cuttack on Tuesday evening.<\/p>\n<p>The hosts were sent in and scored 175 for the loss of six wickets in their 20 overs.<\/p>\n<p>All-rounder Hardik Pandya produced the match winning innings, scoring an unbeaten 59 off 28 balls.<\/p>\n<p>Proteas who are still in search of the right combinations in the shortest format of the game, were woeful in reply and were bowled out for 74 inside 13 overs.<\/p>\n<p>Dewald Brevis\u2019 22 was the highest score.<\/p>\n<p>The second match of the series is on Thursday in Chandigarh.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&#8211;SABC&#8211;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"featured_media":14989,"template":"","meta":{"_acf_changed":false},"news-type":[20],"class_list":["post-20802","news","type-news","status-publish","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","news-type-sport","entry"],"acf":{"short_description":"India thumped the Proteas by 101 runs in the first of five T20 Internationals.","published_date":null,"news_description":"India thumped the Proteas by 101 runs in the first of five T20 Internationals.","form_embed":"","author":"","image_caption":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.channelafrica.co.za\/channelafrica\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news\/20802","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\/20802\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":24710,"href":"https:\/\/www.channelafrica.co.za\/channelafrica\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news\/20802\/revisions\/24710"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.channelafrica.co.za\/channelafrica\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/14989"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.channelafrica.co.za\/channelafrica\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=20802"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"news-type","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.channelafrica.co.za\/channelafrica\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news-type?post=20802"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}