{"id":615152,"date":"2025-12-06T03:56:13","date_gmt":"2025-12-06T03:56:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/615152\/"},"modified":"2025-12-06T03:56:13","modified_gmt":"2025-12-06T03:56:13","slug":"wolvaardt-luus-crush-ireland-in-series-opener","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/615152\/","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":615153,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4101],"tags":[172276,1406,28555,191704,174249,79,16,15],"class_list":{"0":"post-615152","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-cricket","8":"tag-1st-t20i","9":"tag-cricket","10":"tag-ireland-women","11":"tag-ireland-women-tour-of-south-africa-2025","12":"tag-south-africa-women","13":"tag-sports","14":"tag-uk","15":"tag-united-kingdom"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@uk\/115670613207150162","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/615152","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=615152"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/615152\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/615153"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=615152"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=615152"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=615152"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}