{"id":33210,"date":"2026-04-28T15:30:57","date_gmt":"2026-04-28T13:30:57","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.channelafrica.co.za\/channelafrica\/?post_type=news&#038;p=33210"},"modified":"2026-04-28T15:30:57","modified_gmt":"2026-04-28T13:30:57","slug":"wolvaardt-leads-proteas-women-to-strong-india-series-win-ahead-of-world-cup","status":"publish","type":"news","link":"https:\/\/www.channelafrica.co.za\/channelafrica\/news\/wolvaardt-leads-proteas-women-to-strong-india-series-win-ahead-of-world-cup\/","title":{"rendered":"Wolvaardt leads Proteas Women to strong India series win ahead of World Cup"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Proteas Women have wrapped up their International Cricket Council Women\u2019s T20 World Cup preparations in dominant fashion, beating India by 23 runs in the final match in Benoni to seal a 4-1 series victory.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Having already secured the series with three successful run chases in Durban and Johannesburg, South Africa (SA) shifted approach in the final game, choosing to bat first for a different kind of test.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>The move paid off, with captain Laura Wolvaardt once again at the heart of the performance, anchoring the innings and guiding her side to a competitive total on a tricky surface.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Wolvaardt admitted afterwards that while the batting effort was solid, SA still need to improve their partnerships in the middle order.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe set ourselves goals to build better partnerships. I think one strong stand would have pushed us closer to 165, which would have been a really good score,\u201d she said. \u201cIt was a slightly tricky wicket with inconsistent bounce, but overall I was happy with how the bowlers defended it.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&#8211;ChannelAfrica&#8211;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"featured_media":14169,"template":"","meta":{"_acf_changed":false},"news-type":[20],"class_list":["post-33210","news","type-news","status-publish","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","news-type-sport","entry"],"acf":{"short_description":"Proteas Women have wrapped up their ICC Women\u2019s T20 World Cup preparations","published_date":"2026-04-28 15:12:46","news_description":"Proteas Women have wrapped up their ICC Women\u2019s T20 World Cup preparations","form_embed":"","author":"","image_caption":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.channelafrica.co.za\/channelafrica\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news\/33210","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":4,"href":"https:\/\/www.channelafrica.co.za\/channelafrica\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news\/33210\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":33216,"href":"https:\/\/www.channelafrica.co.za\/channelafrica\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news\/33210\/revisions\/33216"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.channelafrica.co.za\/channelafrica\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/14169"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.channelafrica.co.za\/channelafrica\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=33210"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"news-type","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.channelafrica.co.za\/channelafrica\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news-type?post=33210"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}