{"id":14095,"date":"2017-08-16T22:43:12","date_gmt":"2017-08-16T17:43:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/tns.world\/?p=14095"},"modified":"2017-08-16T23:12:58","modified_gmt":"2017-08-16T18:12:58","slug":"new-zealands-wonder-girl-suzie-bates-makes-history-by-hitting-ton-in-womens-super-league","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/tns.world\/?p=14095","title":{"rendered":"New Zealand\u2019s wonder girl Suzie Bates makes history by hitting ton in Women\u2019s Super League"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>London August 16 (TNS):<\/strong> New Zealand captain Suzie Bates struck the first hundred in English female cricket\u00a0s Twenty20 Super League on Tuesday.<\/p>\n<p>Bates\u00a0unbeaten 119 laid the platform for reigning champions Southern Vipers\u00a0 overwhelming 46-run win away to Loughborough Lightning at Derby.<\/p>\n<p>The opener, dropped on 39, struck 15 fours and four sixes, facing just 72 deliveries, as the Vipers made 180 for two &#8212; the highest total in the competition so far.<\/p>\n<p>Her innings topped the previous best of 91 made by South Africa captain Dane van Niekerk for Loughborough against Surrey last year.<\/p>\n<p>As if that was not enough, Bates then took three wickets for a mere 15 runs, including bowling Loughborough captain Georgia Elwiss, for 32, as the hosts collapsed to 134 all out.<\/p>\n<p>(Curtsey\u00a0 AFP)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>London August 16 (TNS): New Zealand captain Suzie Bates struck the first hundred in English female cricket\u00a0s Twenty20 Super League on Tuesday. Bates\u00a0unbeaten 119 laid the platform for reigning champions Southern Vipers\u00a0 overwhelming 46-run win away to Loughborough Lightning at Derby. The opener, dropped on 39, struck 15 fours and four sixes, facing just 72 [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":14096,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[20],"tags":[330],"class_list":["post-14095","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-sports","tag-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/tns.world\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14095","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/tns.world\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/tns.world\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tns.world\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tns.world\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=14095"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/tns.world\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14095\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":14097,"href":"https:\/\/tns.world\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14095\/revisions\/14097"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tns.world\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/14096"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/tns.world\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=14095"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tns.world\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=14095"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tns.world\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=14095"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}