{"id":309603,"date":"2025-12-10T21:33:09","date_gmt":"2025-12-10T21:33:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/309603\/"},"modified":"2025-12-10T21:33:09","modified_gmt":"2025-12-10T21:33:09","slug":"south-africa-v-ireland-final-game-of-t20-series-washed-out-in-benoni","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/309603\/","title":{"rendered":"South Africa v Ireland: Final game of T20 series washed out in Benoni"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Ireland&#8217;s third and final T20 international in South Africa was abandoned without a ball being bowled after heavy rain and lightning in Benoni.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Play had been due to start at 16:00 GMT on Wednesday but, after the toss was delayed three times, the decision was made shortly after 17:30. <\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">The hosts had already secured a 2-0 series win with their 65-run victory in Paarl on Sunday.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Ireland&#8217;s tour continues with the start of a three-game series of one-day internationals on Saturday (08:00 GMT).<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Ireland&#8217;s third and final T20 international in South Africa was abandoned without a ball being bowled after heavy&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":309604,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[34],"tags":[1721,101,56,54,55],"class_list":{"0":"post-309603","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-cricket","8":"tag-cricket","9":"tag-sports","10":"tag-uk","11":"tag-united-kingdom","12":"tag-unitedkingdom"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/309603","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=309603"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/309603\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/309604"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=309603"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=309603"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=309603"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}