{"id":403545,"date":"2026-01-10T05:35:10","date_gmt":"2026-01-10T05:35:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/403545\/"},"modified":"2026-01-10T05:35:10","modified_gmt":"2026-01-10T05:35:10","slug":"cricket-is-the-sa20-the-bbls-biggest-competition","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/403545\/","title":{"rendered":"Cricket: Is the SA20 the BBL&#8217;s biggest competition?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The 15th edition of the Big Bash League is nearing the business end of the tournament, and it has been another excellent tournament.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Across the Indian Ocean South Africa&#8217;s SA20 competition is also in full flow, and that league is growing in size and interest around the world as foreign investment has pumped money into the league.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>So could the SA20 surpass the BBL in terms of quality and interest?\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>ABC Sport&#8217;s Brett Sprigg caught up with South African broadcaster Neil Manthorp to discuss.\u00a0<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The 15th edition of the Big Bash League is nearing the business end of the tournament, and it&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":403546,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[564],"tags":[64,63,29878,740,3753,73019,1183,85,47567],"class_list":["post-403545","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-cricket","tag-au","tag-australia","tag-bbl","tag-cricket","tag-grandstand_latest","tag-sa20","tag-south-africa","tag-sports","tag-twenty20"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/403545","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=403545"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/403545\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/403546"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=403545"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=403545"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=403545"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}