{"id":333831,"date":"2026-03-17T10:58:11","date_gmt":"2026-03-17T10:58:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/333831\/"},"modified":"2026-03-17T10:58:11","modified_gmt":"2026-03-17T10:58:11","slug":"black-caps-thump-south-africa-to-level-t20-series-in-hamilton","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/333831\/","title":{"rendered":"Black Caps thump South Africa to level T20 series in Hamilton"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/03\/4JRM1WD_260317_BlackcapsProteas_037_JPG.jpeg\" width=\"1050\" height=\"640\" alt=\"Nick Kelly.&#10;New Zealand Blackcaps v South Africa Proteas Men, 2nd Twenty20 international cricket match at Seddon Park in Hamilton, Tuesday 17 March 2026. \u00a9 Photo: Andrew Cornaga \/ Photosport.nz\"\/><\/p>\n<p class=\"photo-captioned__information\">\nNick Kelly.<br \/>\nPhoto: Andrew Cornaga\n<\/p>\n<p>The Black Caps have levelled their T20 series against South Africa with a dominant win in the second match in Hamilton on Tuesday.<\/p>\n<p>New Zealand won by 68 runs after bowling the Proteas out inside 16 overs.<\/p>\n<p>After being sent into bat, New Zealand posted 175\/6 in the first innings with opener Devon Conway leading the charge.<\/p>\n<p>Conway scored 60 runs, which included six boundaries, while there was also late power-hitting from Cole McConchie (18 not out) and Josh Clarkson (26 not out).<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/03\/4JRM0QG_260317_BlackcapsProteas_049_JPG.jpeg\" width=\"1050\" height=\"671\" alt=\"South Africa wicketkeeper Connor Esterhuizen.&#10;New Zealand Blackcaps v South Africa Proteas Men, 2nd Twenty20 international cricket match at Seddon Park in Hamilton, Tuesday 17 March 2026. \u00a9 Photo: Mark Cornaga \/ Photosport.nz\"\/><\/p>\n<p class=\"photo-captioned__information\">\nSouth Africa wicketkeeper Connor Esterhuizen.<br \/>\nPhoto: Andrew Cornaga\n<\/p>\n<p>Clarkson hit two fours and two sixes from just nine balls.<\/p>\n<p>South Africa&#8217;s reply never really got going, with regular wickets stalling any hopes of a chasing down New Zealand&#8217;s target.<\/p>\n<p>Lockie Ferguson (3\/16) and Ben Sears (3\/14) picked up three wickets apiece, while Santner also grabbed two.<\/p>\n<p>The third match will be played in Auckland on Friday.<\/p>\n<p>See how the game unfolded in our 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>, a daily newsletter curated by our editors and delivered straight to your inbox every weekday.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Nick Kelly. Photo: Andrew Cornaga The Black Caps have levelled their T20 series against South Africa with a&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":333832,"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":["post-333831","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-headlines","tag-audio","tag-current-affairs","tag-headlines","tag-news","tag-podcasts","tag-public-radio","tag-radio-new-zealand","tag-rnz","tag-top-news","tag-top-stories","tag-topnews","tag-topstories"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/333831","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=333831"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/333831\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/333832"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=333831"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=333831"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=333831"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}