{"id":23464,"date":"2026-02-08T09:33:58","date_gmt":"2026-02-08T07:33:58","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/jhb-webdevelopers\/channelafrica\/news\/t20-world-cup-a-fresh-start-for-proteas-rabada\/"},"modified":"2026-02-27T16:34:15","modified_gmt":"2026-02-27T14:34:15","slug":"t20-world-cup-a-fresh-start-for-proteas-rabada","status":"publish","type":"news","link":"https:\/\/www.channelafrica.co.za\/channelafrica\/news\/t20-world-cup-a-fresh-start-for-proteas-rabada\/","title":{"rendered":"T20 World Cup a fresh start for Proteas: Rabada"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Proteas fast bowler Kagiso Rabada says this year\u2019s edition of ICC\u2019s Men\u2019s T20 World Cup in India and Sri Lanka, is a fresh start for the South African team.<\/p>\n<p>The Proteas lost to India in the previous final in the USA, two years ago.<\/p>\n<p>South Africa has been drawn in Group D, the so-called group of death alongside Canada, New Zealand, Afghanistan and the United Arab Emirates.<\/p>\n<p>They get their campaign under way with a match against the Canadians in Ahmedabad on Monday.<\/p>\n<p>Rabada says, \u201cSo yeah, the plain and simple of it all is this a news tournament. However, or rather, you do need to, you do look at what you\u2019ve done in the past and see it as motivation. However, moving forward, we need to understand that this is a completely new tournament at different venues and against opposition that are maybe slightly different with game plans.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>&#8211;SABC&#8211;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"featured_media":14989,"template":"","meta":{"_acf_changed":false},"news-type":[20],"class_list":["post-23464","news","type-news","status-publish","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","news-type-sport","entry"],"acf":{"short_description":"The Proteas lost to India in the previous final in the USA, two years ago.","published_date":null,"news_description":"The Proteas lost to India in the previous final in the USA, two years ago.","form_embed":"","author":"","image_caption":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.channelafrica.co.za\/channelafrica\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news\/23464","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\/23464\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":26422,"href":"https:\/\/www.channelafrica.co.za\/channelafrica\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news\/23464\/revisions\/26422"}],"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=23464"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"news-type","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.channelafrica.co.za\/channelafrica\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news-type?post=23464"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}