{"id":288169,"date":"2026-02-17T10:56:10","date_gmt":"2026-02-17T10:56:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/288169\/"},"modified":"2026-02-17T10:56:10","modified_gmt":"2026-02-17T10:56:10","slug":"t20-world-cup-black-caps-beat-canada-by-eight-wickets","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/288169\/","title":{"rendered":"T20 World Cup: Black Caps beat Canada by eight wickets"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/02\/4JT2ECN_260217BlackcapsCanada_00903_JPG.jpeg\" width=\"1050\" height=\"735\" alt=\"Glenn Philips New Zealand Blackcaps v Canada, ICC Men\u2019s T20 World Cup cricket match at MA Chidambaram Stadium, Chennai, India on Tuesday 17 February 2026. &#10;\u00a9 Photo: Kushal Doshi \/ Photosport\"\/><\/p>\n<p class=\"photo-captioned__information\">\nGlenn Philips in action for the Black Caps against Canada in their ICC Men\u2019s T20 World Cup clash.<br \/>\nPhoto: www.photosport.nz\n<\/p>\n<p>The Black Caps have comfortably chased down Canada&#8217;s total in their T20 World Cup clash.<\/p>\n<p>Canada scored a respectable 173 in the match at MA Chidambaram Stadium in Chennai, with batsman Yuvraj Samra scoring 110 in 65 balls.<\/p>\n<p>But the Black Caps chased the total down with 29 balls remaining &#8211; Glenn Phillips top scored with 76 runs off 36 balls, while Rachin Ravindra also reached a half-century, scoring 59 in 39 balls..<\/p>\n<p>The win has secured the Black Caps a place in the Super 8s, where they will be divided into two groups of four each, and play each other in a round-robin format.<\/p>\n<p>The top two teams from each Super 8s group will progress to the semi-finals.<\/p>\n<p>See how all the action 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 daily newsletter<\/a> curated by our editors and delivered straight to your inbox every weekday.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Glenn Philips in action for the Black Caps against Canada in their ICC Men\u2019s T20 World Cup clash.&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":288170,"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-288169","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\/288169","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=288169"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/288169\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/288170"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=288169"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=288169"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=288169"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}