{"id":47093,"date":"2026-10-02T14:38:02","date_gmt":"2026-10-02T12:38:02","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.channelafrica.co.za\/channelafrica\/?post_type=news&#038;p=47093"},"modified":"2026-10-02T14:38:14","modified_gmt":"2026-10-02T12:38:14","slug":"proteas-first-encounter-for-2027-world-cup-will-be-new-zealand","status":"publish","type":"news","link":"https:\/\/www.channelafrica.co.za\/channelafrica\/news\/proteas-first-encounter-for-2027-world-cup-will-be-new-zealand\/","title":{"rendered":"Proteas first encounter for 2027 World Cup will be New Zealand"},"content":{"rendered":"<div dir=\"ltr\" data-olk-copy-source=\"MessageBody\">South Africa&#8217;s (SA) cricket team, Proteas will face New Zealand in the Proteas first game of the 2027 Cricket World Cup, which kicks off in a year\u2019s time on 2 October 2027. The Proteas and Kiwis are in Group B of the second round group stage alongside England, Bangladesh, Sri Lanka and a yet to be determined qualifying team.<\/div>\n<div id=\"x_ms-outlook-mobile-signature\">\n<div dir=\"ltr\"><\/div>\n<div>The Proteas\/ New Zealand encounter takes place in Cape Town on the 9th of October 2027. After that South Africa will take on a qualifier on the 13th of October in Paarl.<\/div>\n<div dir=\"ltr\"><\/div>\n<div>Next up is England in Gqeberha on the 16th. And the last two games in the group stage will be against Bangladesh in Durban on the 19th and Sri Lanka on the 22nd in Johannesburg.<\/div>\n<div dir=\"ltr\"><\/div>\n<div>Group A consists of Australia, India, Pakistan Afghanistan, co-hosts Zimbabwe and a qualifier. The first game of the group is a blockbuster encounter between defending champions Australia and India, a repeat of the final in India four years ago.<\/div>\n<div dir=\"ltr\"><\/div>\n<div>The tournament officially begins in Windhoek, Namibia, where the three lowest ranked teams of the 14 competing nations will fight it out for the last qualifying spot in the second round group stage.<\/div>\n<div dir=\"ltr\"><\/div>\n<div>Then, the top 3 from group A and B plus the best fourth placed team across the two groups will move to the Super 7 phase, where the semi-final spots will be decided.<\/div>\n<div dir=\"ltr\"><\/div>\n<div>Tickets for matches are available through a ballot and fans can register their interest for free.<\/div>\n<div dir=\"ltr\"><\/div>\n<div>The International Cricket Council says all valid entries received between the 1st of October and 21st of November 2026 will be considered equally, regardless of when in the ballot period they are submitted.<\/div>\n<div dir=\"ltr\"><\/div>\n<div dir=\"ltr\">\u2014SABC\u2014<\/div>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"featured_media":0,"template":"","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"news-type":[20],"class_list":["post-47093","news","type-news","status-publish","hentry","news-type-sport","entry"],"acf":{"short_description":"The Proteas\/ New Zealand encounter takes place in Cape Town on the 9th of October 2027.","published_date":"","news_description":"The Proteas\/ New Zealand encounter takes place in Cape Town on the 9th of October 2027.","form_embed":"","author":"","image_caption":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.channelafrica.co.za\/channelafrica\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news\/47093","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\/47093\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":47094,"href":"https:\/\/www.channelafrica.co.za\/channelafrica\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news\/47093\/revisions\/47094"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.channelafrica.co.za\/channelafrica\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=47093"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"news-type","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.channelafrica.co.za\/channelafrica\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news-type?post=47093"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}