{"id":584252,"date":"2026-04-04T04:14:09","date_gmt":"2026-04-04T04:14:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/584252\/"},"modified":"2026-04-04T04:14:09","modified_gmt":"2026-04-04T04:14:09","slug":"live-cricket-white-ferns-v-south-africa-women-third-and-final-odi","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/584252\/","title":{"rendered":"Live cricket: White Ferns v South Africa Women &#8211; third and final ODI"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Maddy Green has scored an unbeaten 141 runs in the deciding one-day international against South Africa at the Basin Reserve.<\/p>\n<p>The Proteas will chase a target of 307 this afternoon, after the White Ferns recorded 306\/7 in their 50 overs, having been put in to bat.<\/p>\n<p>Green hit a career-best 141 off 128 balls, despite cramping late in her innings, marking her third ODI century.<\/p>\n<p>Brooke Halliday also made an impressive contribution of 98 runs.<\/p>\n<p>The pair led a remarkable recovery. after a disastrous start when the White Ferns were just 3\/3.<\/p>\n<p>Green and Halliday&#8217;s 211-run partnership is now the highest for the fourth wicket in ODIs for New Zealand, surpassing the previous record of 172 set by Amy Satterthwaite and Melie Kerr.<\/p>\n<p>New Zealand were 98\/3 at the halfway mark.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/04\/4JQP73P_260404WhiteFernsSthAfrica_072_JPG.jpeg\" width=\"1050\" height=\"700\" alt=\"New Zealand White Ferns Maddy Green celebrates scoring 100 runs, NZ White Ferns v South Africa 3rd ODI, Cello Basin Reserve, Wellington.\"\/><\/p>\n<p class=\"photo-captioned__information\">\nMaddy Green celebrates a century against South Africa.<br \/>\nPhoto: Kerry Marshall\/Photosport\n<\/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":"Maddy Green has scored an unbeaten 141 runs in the deciding one-day international against South Africa at the&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":584253,"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":{"0":"post-584252","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-cricket","8":"tag-au","9":"tag-audio","10":"tag-australia","11":"tag-cricket","12":"tag-current-affairs","13":"tag-news","14":"tag-podcasts","15":"tag-public-radio","16":"tag-radio-new-zealand","17":"tag-rnz","18":"tag-sports"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/584252","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=584252"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/584252\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/584253"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=584252"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=584252"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=584252"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}