{"id":301525,"date":"2025-12-06T03:21:07","date_gmt":"2025-12-06T03:21:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/301525\/"},"modified":"2025-12-06T03:21:07","modified_gmt":"2025-12-06T03:21:07","slug":"wolvaardt-luus-crush-ireland-in-series-opener","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/301525\/","title":{"rendered":"Wolvaardt, Luus crush Ireland in series opener"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Opting to bat first, South Africa lost Faye Tunnicliffe in the second over but it was all one-way traffic in the opposite direction thereafter. Sune Luus and Laura Wolvaardt, batting at number three, stitched a 176-run stand to deflate the Irish bowlers. While Luus fell to Ava Canning in the 18th over, Wolvaardt carried on and brought up three-figures an over later as South Africa posted a mammoth 220\/2 in 20 overs. Dane van Niekerk, making her comeback, chipped in with an unbeaten 21 off just 8 balls.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Opting to bat first, South Africa lost Faye Tunnicliffe in the second over but it was all one-way&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":301526,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[34],"tags":[97346,1721,47818,121094,54277,101,56,54,55],"class_list":["post-301525","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-cricket","tag-1st-t20i","tag-cricket","tag-ireland-women","tag-ireland-women-tour-of-south-africa-2025","tag-south-africa-women","tag-sports","tag-uk","tag-united-kingdom","tag-unitedkingdom"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/301525","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=301525"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/301525\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/301526"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=301525"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=301525"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=301525"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}