{"id":67513,"date":"2018-11-17T01:02:18","date_gmt":"2018-11-17T00:02:18","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/2018\/11\/17\/impressive-england-thrash-south-africa-to-close-in-on-world-t20-semi-finals\/"},"modified":"2018-11-17T01:02:18","modified_gmt":"2018-11-17T00:02:18","slug":"impressive-england-thrash-south-africa-to-close-in-on-world-t20-semi-finals","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/?p=67513","title":{"rendered":"Impressive England thrash South Africa to close in on World T20 semi-finals"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>\u2022 South Africa 85, England 87-3; England win by seven wickets\u2022 Shrubsole claims hat-trick as bowlers turn on the styleAnya Shrubsole started her 2018 learning that she would be the first woman featured on the front cover of Wisden for her heroics in last year\u2019s World Cup final. Now, becoming just the second player of her gender to take a hat-trick at the World T20, she has the chance to finish it with a second major trophy in two years with England all-but guaranteed progress to the final four after eliminating an abysmal South Africa by seven wickets with 35 balls to spare after bowling them out for 85.The achievement capped an immaculate all-round performance from Heather Knight\u2019s side with the ball, not least from Shrubsole\u2019s fellow seamer Nat Sciver who took three for four to make six for 15 from 7.3 overs between England\u2019s frugal and effective openers. Continue reading&#8230;<br \/>\nVia: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/sport\/2018\/nov\/17\/cricket-impressive-england-thrash-south-africa\" target=\"_blank\">Impressive England thrash South Africa to close in on World T20 semi-finals<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>\u2022 South Africa 85, England 87-3; England win by seven wickets\u2022 Shrubsole claims hat-trick as bowlers turn on the styleAnya Shrubsole started her 2018 learning that she would be the first woman featured on the front cover of Wisden for her heroics in last year\u2019s World Cup final. Now, becoming [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-67513","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-english"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/67513","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=67513"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/67513\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=67513"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=67513"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=67513"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}