{"id":273765,"date":"2026-02-08T12:25:10","date_gmt":"2026-02-08T12:25:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/273765\/"},"modified":"2026-02-08T12:25:10","modified_gmt":"2026-02-08T12:25:10","slug":"t20-cricket-world-cup-new-zealand-black-caps-defeat-afghanistan","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/273765\/","title":{"rendered":"T20 cricket World Cup: New Zealand Black Caps defeat Afghanistan"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Follow all the cricket acton, as the Black Caps take on Afghanistan at MA Chidambaram Stadium in Chennai for their first match of the T20 World Cup.<\/p>\n<p>Afghanistan have set a target of 183 and it is now the Black Caps at bat.<\/p>\n<p>The 10th edition of the ICC T20 Cricket World Cup runs from 7 February to 8 March.<\/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<p><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/02\/4M1J7H4_copyright_image_279456.jpeg\" width=\"1050\" height=\"656\" alt=\"Glenn Phillips, left, and team mate James Neesham talk tactics against Namibia.\"\/><\/p>\n<p class=\"photo-captioned__information\">\nGlenn Phillips and Jimmy Neesham.<br \/>\nPhoto: Photosport<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Follow all the cricket acton, as the Black Caps take on Afghanistan at MA Chidambaram Stadium in Chennai&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":273396,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[48,47,42,43,49,46,44,45,40,38,41,39],"class_list":{"0":"post-273765","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-headlines","8":"tag-audio","9":"tag-current-affairs","10":"tag-headlines","11":"tag-news","12":"tag-podcasts","13":"tag-public-radio","14":"tag-radio-new-zealand","15":"tag-rnz","16":"tag-top-news","17":"tag-top-stories","18":"tag-topnews","19":"tag-topstories"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/273765","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=273765"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/273765\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/273396"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=273765"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=273765"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=273765"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}