{"id":359398,"date":"2026-04-02T00:09:11","date_gmt":"2026-04-02T00:09:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/359398\/"},"modified":"2026-04-02T00:09:11","modified_gmt":"2026-04-02T00:09:11","slug":"cricket-white-ferns-chase-down-347-as-amelia-kerr-hits-stunning-179-to-beat-south-africa-in-second-odi","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/359398\/","title":{"rendered":"Cricket: White Ferns chase down 347 as Amelia Kerr hits stunning 179 to beat South Africa in second ODI"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"sYHrSxRJWo\" style=\"display:none\">Earlier, South Africa made 346 for six with Anneke Bosch (91 from 90), Laura Wolvaardt (69 from 74) and Chloe Tryon (52 from 25) all making half-centuries. Bree Illing was the best of the New Zealand bowlers with 3-60.<\/p>\n<p class=\"sYHrSxRJWo\" style=\"display:none\">The previous highest chase was 341 by India against Australia at last year\u2019s Cricket World Cup, and it looked a tall order for New Zealand when Suzie Bates was dismissed in the fifth over for eight.<\/p>\n<p class=\"sYHrSxRJWo\" style=\"display:none\">Enter  Kerr,  who brought up her fifth ODI ton and second against South Africa in the 35th over with New Zealand still 136 runs shy of the target.<\/p>\n<p class=\"sYHrSxRJWo\" style=\"display:none\">She kept her composure as wickets fell around her, including those of her sister Jess, who hit a six and a four before holing out, leaving 17 needed from the final two overs. When Rosemary Mair departed a few balls later, caught at deep mid on, debutant Kayley Knight played out a single off her first ball to keep Kerr on strike.<\/p>\n<p class=\"sYHrSxRJWo\" style=\"display:none\">The captain  then ensured she retained strike for the final over before finishing off one of the great innings in New Zealand cricket history.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Earlier, South Africa made 346 for six with Anneke Bosch (91 from 90), Laura Wolvaardt (69 from 74)&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":359399,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9],"tags":[167143,189681,190,9092,5831,103859,806,4498,9436,16558,6097,10541,71,305,4508,78,809,23900,111,139,69,16552,26525,1974,2202,8466,1963,76350,1240,213,12825,3179,165,61,16550,377],"class_list":["post-359398","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-sports","tag-167143","tag-189681","tag-africa","tag-against","tag-alive","tag-amelia","tag-as","tag-beat","tag-chase","tag-cricket","tag-down","tag-ferns","tag-from","tag-have","tag-hits","tag-in","tag-keep","tag-kerr","tag-new-zealand","tag-newzealand","tag-nz","tag-odi","tag-pulled","tag-record","tag-remarkable","tag-second","tag-series","tag-skipper","tag-south","tag-sports","tag-stunning","tag-thanks","tag-their","tag-to","tag-white","tag-world"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/359398","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=359398"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/359398\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/359399"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=359398"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=359398"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=359398"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}