{"id":46458,"date":"2026-09-25T10:56:47","date_gmt":"2026-09-25T08:56:47","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.channelafrica.co.za\/channelafrica\/?post_type=news&#038;p=46458"},"modified":"2026-09-25T10:56:47","modified_gmt":"2026-09-25T08:56:47","slug":"proteas-take-1-0-lead-with-67-run-win-against-australia","status":"publish","type":"news","link":"https:\/\/www.channelafrica.co.za\/channelafrica\/news\/proteas-take-1-0-lead-with-67-run-win-against-australia\/","title":{"rendered":"Proteas take 1-0 lead with 67 run win against Australia"},"content":{"rendered":"<div>South Africa&#8217;s (SA) cricket\u00a0<span class=\"x_spanWithBackgroundColor\">team<\/span>, Proteas have struck first in the three-match, One Day International (ODI) series against Australia.<\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<div>The Proteas beat the Aussies by 67 runs in the first encounter in Durban.<\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<div>The Proteas, who were sent in to bat first, had a slow start, but managed 297 for the loss of eight wickets.<\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<div>Matthew Breetzke was the star of the show with 112 runs, before he was run out. Marco Jansen added 75. Despite a promising start, the Aussies were dismissed for 230 in the 42nd over.<\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<div>Keshav Maharaj took four wickets for just 20 runs in 9.2 overs.<\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<div>The second of the three ODI\u2019s will take place in Johannesburg on Sunday, the so-called Pink Day match.<\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<div>&#8211;SABC&#8211;<\/div>\n","protected":false},"featured_media":14989,"template":"","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"news-type":[20],"class_list":["post-46458","news","type-news","status-publish","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","news-type-sport","entry"],"acf":{"short_description":"Keshav Maharaj took four wickets for just 20 runs in 9.2 overs.","published_date":"","news_description":"Keshav Maharaj took four wickets for just 20 runs in 9.2 overs.","form_embed":"","author":"","image_caption":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.channelafrica.co.za\/channelafrica\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news\/46458","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\/46458\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":46459,"href":"https:\/\/www.channelafrica.co.za\/channelafrica\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news\/46458\/revisions\/46459"}],"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=46458"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"news-type","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.channelafrica.co.za\/channelafrica\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news-type?post=46458"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}