{"id":312698,"date":"2026-03-04T14:42:08","date_gmt":"2026-03-04T14:42:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/312698\/"},"modified":"2026-03-04T14:42:08","modified_gmt":"2026-03-04T14:42:08","slug":"live-black-caps-v-south-africa-t20-world-cup-semi-final","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/312698\/","title":{"rendered":"Live: Black Caps v South Africa T20 World Cup semi-final"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Follow all the T20 cricket action as the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.rnz.co.nz\/news\/sport\/588558\/santner-s-black-caps-chase-perfect-game-in-world-cup-semi\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Black Caps face South Africa<\/a> in the World Cup semi-final at Eden Gardens.<\/p>\n<p>South Africa remain the tournament&#8217;s only unbeaten team and their seven wins in a row include a seven-wicket thumping of New Zealand in the group stage.<\/p>\n<p>Black Caps captain Mitchell Santner said he wants his team to piece together their first &#8220;perfect game&#8221; this morning.<\/p>\n<p>First ball is at 2.30am NZT.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Follow all the T20 cricket action as the Black Caps face South Africa in the World Cup semi-final&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":312699,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[48,47,111,43,139,69,49,46,44,45],"class_list":{"0":"post-312698","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-new-zealand","8":"tag-audio","9":"tag-current-affairs","10":"tag-new-zealand","11":"tag-news","12":"tag-newzealand","13":"tag-nz","14":"tag-podcasts","15":"tag-public-radio","16":"tag-radio-new-zealand","17":"tag-rnz"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/312698","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=312698"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/312698\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/312699"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=312698"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=312698"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=312698"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}