{"id":31248,"date":"2026-04-09T17:46:22","date_gmt":"2026-04-09T15:46:22","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.channelafrica.co.za\/channelafrica\/?post_type=news&#038;p=31248"},"modified":"2026-04-09T17:46:22","modified_gmt":"2026-04-09T15:46:22","slug":"brazils-cardoso-sets-record-with-in-t20-international","status":"publish","type":"news","link":"https:\/\/www.channelafrica.co.za\/channelafrica\/news\/brazils-cardoso-sets-record-with-in-t20-international\/","title":{"rendered":"Brazil\u2019s Cardoso sets record with in T20 International"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>In women\u2019s cricket, Laura Cardoso has made history by becoming the first player to take nine wickets in a T20 international.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>The 21-year-old delivered a remarkable performance for Brazil against Lesotho, finishing with figures of nine for four as Lesotho were bowled out for just 13 runs.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>The achievement sets a new world record in the format, surpassing previous bests in both men\u2019s and women\u2019s T20 cricket.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>The match formed part of the Kalahari Women\u2019s T20 tournament in Botswana.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&#8211;ChannelAfrica&#8211;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"featured_media":16345,"template":"","meta":{"_acf_changed":false},"news-type":[20],"class_list":["post-31248","news","type-news","status-publish","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","news-type-sport","entry"],"acf":{"short_description":"Laura Cardoso has made history by becoming the first player to take nine wickets","published_date":"2026-04-09 16:58:06","news_description":"Laura Cardoso has made history by becoming the first player to take nine wickets","form_embed":"","author":"","image_caption":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.channelafrica.co.za\/channelafrica\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news\/31248","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\/31248\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":31249,"href":"https:\/\/www.channelafrica.co.za\/channelafrica\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news\/31248\/revisions\/31249"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.channelafrica.co.za\/channelafrica\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/16345"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.channelafrica.co.za\/channelafrica\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=31248"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"news-type","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.channelafrica.co.za\/channelafrica\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news-type?post=31248"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}