{"id":383441,"date":"2026-01-22T03:30:09","date_gmt":"2026-01-22T03:30:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/383441\/"},"modified":"2026-01-22T03:30:09","modified_gmt":"2026-01-22T03:30:09","slug":"jemimah-rodrigues-and-laura-wolvaardt-sign-for-southern-brave-in-womens-hundred","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/383441\/","title":{"rendered":"Jemimah Rodrigues and Laura Wolvaardt sign for Southern Brave in Women&#8217;s Hundred"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Southern Brave have signed World Cup winner Jemimah Rodrigues and South Africa captain Laura Wolvaardt for the 2026 season.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">The two batters are a coup for Brave, who topped the league phase in 2025 and fell short in the final against Northern Superchargers.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Rodrigues, 25, hit a stunning century in India&#8217;s shock World Cup semi-final victory over Australia and has previously played in the competition for Superchargers.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Wolvaardt is the top-ranked one-day batter in the women&#8217;s game and scored the most runs in the World Cup (571).<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">She stays with Brave after scoring 181 runs last summer following her move from Manchester Originals.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">The signings complete Brave&#8217;s business before the auction, with England stars Lauren Bell and Maia Bouchier also secured.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Brave have also signed Australia all-rounder Marcus Stoinis and South Africa big-hitter Tristan Stubbs for their men&#8217;s team.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Southern Brave have signed World Cup winner Jemimah Rodrigues and South Africa captain Laura Wolvaardt for the 2026&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":383442,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[34],"tags":[1721,101,56,54,55],"class_list":["post-383441","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-cricket","tag-cricket","tag-sports","tag-uk","tag-united-kingdom","tag-unitedkingdom"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/383441","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=383441"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/383441\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/383442"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=383441"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=383441"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=383441"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}