{"id":352592,"date":"2026-01-05T01:23:14","date_gmt":"2026-01-05T01:23:14","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/352592\/"},"modified":"2026-01-05T01:23:14","modified_gmt":"2026-01-05T01:23:14","slug":"raza-takes-four-as-paarl-royals-do-the-double-over-mi-cape-town","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/352592\/","title":{"rendered":"Raza takes four as Paarl Royals do the double over MI Cape Town"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Despite the presence of high-profile international stars like Nicholas Pooran and Reeza Hendricks, MI Cape Town found it impossible to build meaningful partnerships. A strategic timeout taken in the ninth over with the score at 45\/2 offered a brief moment for regrouping, but the resumption only brought more wickets. The Royals&#8217; dried up the boundaries, forcing errors from the frustrated batters. By the 16th over, the score had limped to 81\/5, with none of the top-order batters making more than 18 and the lower order too failed to provide any late-innings fireworks. The final collapse was swift, where Raza picked two more. MICT were bundled out for a paltry 88 runs in 18.4 overs.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Despite the presence of high-profile international stars like Nicholas Pooran and Reeza Hendricks, MI Cape Town found it&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":352593,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[34],"tags":[27998,1721,130639,130643,129401,54300,101,56,54,55],"class_list":{"0":"post-352592","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-cricket","8":"tag-2025-26","9":"tag-cricket","10":"tag-mi-cape-town","11":"tag-paarl-royals","12":"tag-sa20","13":"tag-sikandar-raza","14":"tag-sports","15":"tag-uk","16":"tag-united-kingdom","17":"tag-unitedkingdom"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/352592","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=352592"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/352592\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/352593"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=352592"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=352592"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=352592"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}