{"id":625392,"date":"2026-04-23T09:10:27","date_gmt":"2026-04-23T09:10:27","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/625392\/"},"modified":"2026-04-23T09:10:27","modified_gmt":"2026-04-23T09:10:27","slug":"wolvaardt-century-helps-proteas-issue-t20-world-cup-warning-icc-womens-t20-world-cup-2026","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/625392\/","title":{"rendered":"Wolvaardt century helps Proteas issue T20 World Cup warning | ICC Women&#8217;s T20 World Cup, 2026"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Wolvaardt put on a whopping 183 with fellow opener Sune Luus &#8211; the second time the pair have combined for a century partnership this series &#8211; and made the tough chase look easy against the reigning <a href=\"https:\/\/www.icc-cricket.com\/tournaments\/womens-cricket-worldcup-2025\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">ICC Women&#8217;s Cricket World Cup<\/a> champions.<\/p>\n<p>The South Africa openers scored 72 runs inside the Powerplay &#8211; the most in South African women&#8217;s history &#8211; and Wolvaardt credited Luus for keeping her cool during the chase.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;We kept each other pretty calm out there,&#8221; Wolvaardt said.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;It&#8217;s new territory to find ourselves on 70-odd after the Powerplay but once we got that, we told each other we have to keep going.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;We knew we had so much power in the dug out so we just had to get as much as we could. And then once we got out of the Powerplay, I just tried to win the game as quickly as I could.&#8221;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Wolvaardt put on a whopping 183 with fellow opener Sune Luus &#8211; the second time the pair have&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":625393,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[564],"tags":[64,63,740,95832,95830,95836,95846,95842,95845,95843,1950,95844,95841,95847,95853,95852,95833,7301,95851,95835,95834,90626,95839,95840,95849,85,95848,95850,95838,95831,95837],"class_list":{"0":"post-625392","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-cricket-breaking-news","12":"tag-cricket-headlines-today","13":"tag-cricket-live-score","14":"tag-cricket-match-highlights-today","15":"tag-cricket-match-live-streaming-score","16":"tag-cricket-match-result-today","17":"tag-cricket-match-today-live","18":"tag-cricket-news","19":"tag-cricket-results-today","20":"tag-cricket-scorecard-live","21":"tag-cricket-series-updates","22":"tag-cricket-world-cup-live-score","23":"tag-cricket-world-cup-news","24":"tag-cricket-world-news","25":"tag-icc","26":"tag-icc-cricket-updates","27":"tag-international-cricket-live-score","28":"tag-international-cricket-news","29":"tag-latest-cricket-news","30":"tag-latest-cricket-scores","31":"tag-live-cricket-match-update","32":"tag-odi-cricket-live-score","33":"tag-sports","34":"tag-t20-cricket-live-score","35":"tag-test-cricket-live-score","36":"tag-today-cricket-live-score","37":"tag-today-cricket-news-update","38":"tag-todays-cricket-match-score"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/625392","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=625392"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/625392\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/625393"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=625392"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=625392"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=625392"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}