{"id":365738,"date":"2025-12-23T02:03:06","date_gmt":"2025-12-23T02:03:06","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/365738\/"},"modified":"2025-12-23T02:03:06","modified_gmt":"2025-12-23T02:03:06","slug":"bonus-points-for-womens-super-smash-cricket","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/365738\/","title":{"rendered":"Bonus points for women&#8217;s Super Smash cricket"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/12\/382be2_81cd1baa6909424ebedaea509b548b73~mv2.jpg\" alt=\"The Wellington Blaze against the Canterbury Magicians in Super Smash cricket which has a new points structure PHOTO: LINTOTT PHOTOGRAPHY\" style=\"width:100%;height:100%;object-fit:cover;object-position:50% 50%;max-width:100%;position:absolute;left:0;top:0\" data-pin-url=\"https:\/\/www.nzsportswire.com\/post\/bonus-points-for-women-s-super-smash-cricket\" data-pin-media=\"https:\/\/static.wixstatic.com\/media\/382be2_81cd1baa6909424ebedaea509b548b73~mv2.jpg\/v1\/fill\/w_1200,h_675,al_c,q_85\/382be2_81cd1baa6909424ebedaea509b548b73~mv2.jpg\" draggable=\"false\"\/><\/p>\n<p>The Wellington Blaze against the Canterbury Magicians in Super Smash cricket which has a new points structure PHOTO: LINTOTT PHOTOGRAPHY<\/p>\n<p class=\"Hasdr P8FAI _18oPJ DWkY9\" dir=\"auto\" id=\"viewer-u8w67656\">A new points system will apply to the women&#8217;s Super Smash T20 competition this season in a bid to promote higher scoring cricket and improve batting standards.<\/p>\n<p class=\"Hasdr P8FAI _18oPJ DWkY9\" dir=\"auto\" id=\"viewer-xzlpi564\">Teams can only receive one bonus point &#8211; through either scoring 150 runs or more, regardless of batting first or second, or achieving a run rate greater than 1.25 times that of the opposition in the second innings.<\/p>\n<p class=\"Hasdr P8FAI _18oPJ DWkY9\" dir=\"auto\" id=\"viewer-o3y8m567\">Bonus points will not apply to the elimination and grand finals.<\/p>\n<p class=\"Hasdr P8FAI _18oPJ DWkY9\" dir=\"auto\" id=\"viewer-1wvfi570\">A new points structure will apply to the women&#8217;s Super Smash T20 competition this season in a bid to promote higher scoring cricket and improve batting standards.<\/p>\n<p class=\"Hasdr P8FAI _18oPJ DWkY9\" dir=\"auto\" id=\"viewer-z53l1573\">Teams can only receive one bonus point &#8211; through either scoring 150 runs or more, regardless of batting first or second, or achieving a run rate greater than 1.25 times that of the opposition in the second innings.<\/p>\n<p class=\"Hasdr P8FAI _18oPJ DWkY9\" dir=\"auto\" id=\"viewer-5b5wx576\">Bonus points will not apply to the elimination and grand finals.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The Wellington Blaze against the Canterbury Magicians in Super Smash cricket which has a new points structure PHOTO:&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":365739,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[564],"tags":[64,63,740,85],"class_list":{"0":"post-365738","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-cricket","8":"tag-au","9":"tag-australia","10":"tag-cricket","11":"tag-sports"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/365738","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=365738"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/365738\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/365739"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=365738"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=365738"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=365738"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}