{"id":507151,"date":"2026-02-27T08:22:09","date_gmt":"2026-02-27T08:22:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/507151\/"},"modified":"2026-02-27T08:22:09","modified_gmt":"2026-02-27T08:22:09","slug":"cricket-white-ferns-cruise-to-victory-over-zimbabwe-in-first-t20","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/507151\/","title":{"rendered":"Cricket: White Ferns cruise to victory over Zimbabwe in first T20"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/02\/4JSN21H_250226WhiteFernsZimbabwe_072_jpg.jpeg\" width=\"1050\" height=\"700\" alt=\"New Zealand's Amelia Kerr bats during the White Ferns vs Zimbabwe Women, Twenty20 International cricket match at Seddon Park, Hamilton, New Zealand on Wednesday 25 February 2026. Photo: DJ Mills \/ Photosport\"\/><\/p>\n<p class=\"photo-captioned__information\">\nNew Zealand&#8217;s Amelia Kerr on her way to a century during the White Ferns vs Zimbabwe Women T20 match.<br \/>\nPhoto: PhotoSport \/ DJ Mills\n<\/p>\n<p>The White Ferns have defeated Zimbabwe by 92 runs in their Twenty20 International series-opener in Hamilton.<\/p>\n<p>The White Ferns posed an imposing score of 202\/1, with captain Amelia Kerr top scoring with 101 &#8211; reaching her century in just 51 balls.<\/p>\n<p>Isabella Gaze was also not out on 66 off 50 balls, while Georgia Plummer scored a rapid 32 runs.<\/p>\n<p>After losing several early wickets, the Zimbabwe team were unable to lift the run rate and fell well short of NZ&#8217;s total, reaching 110\/4. Beloved Biza top scored with 49 not out.<\/p>\n<p>New Zealand are playing the tourists in three T20 matches &#8211; all in Waikato &#8211; before the three-match ODI series gets underway in Dunedin on 5 March.<\/p>\n<p>See how the game unfolded with our live blog:<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/radionz.us6.list-manage.com\/subscribe?u=211a938dcf3e634ba2427dde9&amp;id=b3d362e693\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Sign up for Ng\u0101 Pitopito K\u014drero<\/a>, a daily newsletter curated by our editors and delivered straight to your inbox every weekday.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"New Zealand&#8217;s Amelia Kerr on her way to a century during the White Ferns vs Zimbabwe Women T20&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":507152,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[564],"tags":[64,1590,63,740,1589,44,1591,1588,1586,1587,85],"class_list":["post-507151","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-cricket","tag-au","tag-audio","tag-australia","tag-cricket","tag-current-affairs","tag-news","tag-podcasts","tag-public-radio","tag-radio-new-zealand","tag-rnz","tag-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/507151","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=507151"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/507151\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/507152"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=507151"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=507151"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=507151"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}