{"id":27051,"date":"2026-02-27T05:20:33","date_gmt":"2026-02-27T03:20:33","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/jhb-webdevelopers-qa\/channelafrica\/news\/proteas-close-in-on-t20-world-cup-semi-final-spot\/"},"modified":"2026-02-27T16:35:00","modified_gmt":"2026-02-27T14:35:00","slug":"proteas-close-in-on-t20-world-cup-semi-final-spot","status":"publish","type":"news","link":"https:\/\/www.channelafrica.co.za\/channelafrica\/news\/proteas-close-in-on-t20-world-cup-semi-final-spot\/","title":{"rendered":"Proteas close in on T20 World Cup semi-final spot"},"content":{"rendered":"<div>South Africa&#8217;s cricket team, Proteas have taken a giant leap towards securing their place in the semi-finals of the International Cricket Council Men\u2019s T20 World Cup in India and Sr Lanka.<\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<div>The Proteas retain their unbeaten record by crushing the West Indies on Thursday, the only other unbeaten team in the tournament by nine wickets.<\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<div>The Windies who were sent in, were reeling at 83 for seven in the 11th over, before recovering to post 176 for eight.<\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<div>Jason Holder and Romario Shepherd shared in a world record 89-run eighth wicket partnership.<\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<div>However, the Proteas made light work of the chase, hitting the wining runs with 23 balls to spare.<\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<div>Captain Aiden Markram and Quinton de Kock laid the foundation with a 95-run opening partnership.<\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<div>Man-of-the-match Markram scored an unbeaten 82 from 46 balls.<\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<div>&#8211;SABC-<\/div>\n","protected":false},"featured_media":23311,"template":"","meta":{"_acf_changed":false},"news-type":[20],"class_list":["post-27051","news","type-news","status-publish","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","news-type-sport","entry"],"acf":{"short_description":"Man-of-the-match Markram scored an unbeaten 82 from 46 balls.","published_date":null,"news_description":"Man-of-the-match Markram scored an unbeaten 82 from 46 balls.","form_embed":"","author":"","image_caption":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.channelafrica.co.za\/channelafrica\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news\/27051","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\/27051\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":27324,"href":"https:\/\/www.channelafrica.co.za\/channelafrica\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news\/27051\/revisions\/27324"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.channelafrica.co.za\/channelafrica\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/23311"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.channelafrica.co.za\/channelafrica\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=27051"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"news-type","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.channelafrica.co.za\/channelafrica\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news-type?post=27051"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}