{"id":333527,"date":"2026-03-17T06:33:08","date_gmt":"2026-03-17T06:33:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/333527\/"},"modified":"2026-03-17T06:33:08","modified_gmt":"2026-03-17T06:33:08","slug":"white-ferns-v-south-africa-twenty20-international-series-levelled-in-hamilton","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/333527\/","title":{"rendered":"White Ferns v South Africa: Twenty20 International series levelled in Hamilton"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Advertisement<a class=\"ad__link\" data-test-ui=\"ad__link\" href=\"https:\/\/nzme.co.nz\/advertise\/\" data-ad-env=\"both\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Advertise with NZME.<\/a><\/p>\n<p class=\"\">The White Ferns have lost the second match of the Twenty20 series against South Africa by 18 runs.<\/p>\n<p class=\"\">New Zealand were unable to back up their impressive 80-run victory at Bay Oval on Sunday, Amelia Kerr top-scoring with just 32 runs in Hamilton. <\/p>\n<p class=\"\">\n         Wickets fell cheaply, with only Sophie<br \/>\n         Devine and Izzy Sharp scoring above 20.\n        <\/p>\n<p class=\"KYEvgaSZnwMMmNilyq\" style=\"display:none\">South Africa looked a vastly improved team from the first match, setting a score of 177 that was too big a task for the White Ferns to chase down. <\/p>\n<p class=\"KYEvgaSZnwMMmNilyq\" style=\"display:none\">Ayabonga Khaka tore through the New Zealand middle order with four wickets for 27 runs in her four overs, the second-best figures for a South African bowler against the White Ferns. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"AdvertisementAdvertise with NZME. The White Ferns have lost the second match of the Twenty20 series against South Africa&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":333528,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9],"tags":[190,9092,10541,6288,305,78,1019,38539,5836,10543,111,139,69,15556,8466,1963,1240,213,49118,16550],"class_list":["post-333527","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-sports","tag-africa","tag-against","tag-ferns","tag-hamilton","tag-have","tag-in","tag-international","tag-levelled","tag-lost","tag-match","tag-new-zealand","tag-newzealand","tag-nz","tag-runs","tag-second","tag-series","tag-south","tag-sports","tag-twenty20","tag-white"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/333527","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=333527"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/333527\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/333528"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=333527"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=333527"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=333527"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}