South Africa improved in the second half making it a tighter contest, but could only limit the damage done in the first half.<\/p>\n
South African goalshooter Elmere van der Berg finished with 35 from 42 attempts.<\/p>\n
Last month Nweke received an eligibility exemption which meant she is able to play for the Silver Ferns despite playing for an Australian franchise.<\/p>\n
\u201cIt\u2019s so amazing. During the anthem, I had an opportunity just to reflect. The last time we were able to line up I didn\u2019t know when I would be back home, in that moment,\u201d Nweke told Sky Sport.<\/p>\n
\u201cYou can never take those opportunities for granted. To be back here in the team that I\u2019m so proud to be a part of it\u2019s so special and I\u2019m so excited for what\u2019s next for our group.\u201d<\/p>\n
Yvette McCausland-Durie replaced Taurua as coach for the series and is already one win away from a maiden series win.<\/p>\n
\u201cReally proud of them. We got out to a good lead. All the things we talked about that were going to be important. About putting pressure back on them – both through the scoreboard and that sense of pressure,\u201d McCausland-Durie told Sky Sport after the win.<\/p>\n
\u201cThey wanted to prove that they can play. They\u2019ve been under a lot of pressure and everybody wanted to own their role and take responsibility for their performance. Our big one was we wanted to push the score out early and give ourselves some room to move, so everyone made a contribution and it was significant,\u201d she said. <\/p>\n
The second and third tests will be played in Napier and Invercargill respectively on September 24 and September 28.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"South Africa improved in the second half making it a tighter contest, but could only limit the damage…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":34735,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9],"tags":[190,2947,8449,10541,78,32497,117,111,139,16759,69,10521,21311,12229,7457,1240,213,32496,16763,765,61,8488,8982,80],"class_list":["post-34734","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-sports","tag-africa","tag-dame","tag-ease","tag-ferns","tag-in","tag-jamison","tag-new","tag-new-zealand","tag-newzealand","tag-noeline","tag-nz","tag-opening","tag-problem","tag-result","tag-silver","tag-south","tag-sports","tag-taini","tag-taurua","tag-test","tag-to","tag-trophy","tag-victory","tag-zealand"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/34734","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=34734"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/34734\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/34735"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=34734"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=34734"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=34734"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}