{"id":385557,"date":"2026-01-23T05:46:13","date_gmt":"2026-01-23T05:46:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/385557\/"},"modified":"2026-01-23T05:46:13","modified_gmt":"2026-01-23T05:46:13","slug":"womens-t20-world-cup-qualifier-scotland-beat-zimbabwe-for-first-group-win","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/385557\/","title":{"rendered":"Women&#8217;s T20 World Cup Qualifier: Scotland beat Zimbabwe for first group win"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Scotland secured their first win in Women&#8217;s T20 World Cup Qualifier Group B by defeating Zimbabwe by five wickets in Nepal.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">The Scots had opened with a seven-run loss to the Netherlands on Tuesday and bowled Zimbabwe out for 101 in 18.4 overs, with Modester Mupachikwa 30 not out.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Katherine Fraser&#8217;s 44 was the major contribution in Scotland&#8217;s innings, with captain Kathryn Bryce adding 23 as they replied with 105-5.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Craig Wallace&#8217;s side reached their target with more than six overs to spare at Mulpani Stadium and face Thailand on Saturday morning, before Zimbabwe play the hosts in the afternoon.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">The Dutch have already qualified for the Super 6 stage, leaving two spots open for Scotland, Nepal, Thailand and Zimbabwe to contest.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Scotland secured their first win in Women&#8217;s T20 World Cup Qualifier Group B by defeating Zimbabwe by five&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":385558,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[34],"tags":[1721,101,56,54,55],"class_list":["post-385557","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\/385557","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=385557"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/385557\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/385558"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=385557"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=385557"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=385557"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}