{"id":9936,"date":"2025-12-09T18:45:05","date_gmt":"2025-12-09T13:15:05","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.businessupturn.com\/sports\/?p=669355"},"modified":"2025-12-09T18:45:05","modified_gmt":"2025-12-09T13:15:05","slug":"ind-vs-sa-1st-t20i-anrich-nortje-plays-first-t20i-since-2024-world-cup-final-as-south-africa-announce-xi","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.businessupturn.com\/sports\/cricket\/ind-vs-sa-1st-t20i-anrich-nortje-plays-first-t20i-since-2024-world-cup-final-as-south-africa-announce-xi\/","title":{"rendered":"IND vs SA 1st T20I: Anrich Nortje Plays First T20I Since 2024 World Cup Final as South Africa Announce XI"},"content":{"rendered":"<p data-start=\"187\" data-end=\"484\">South Africa have named a strong Playing XI for the first T20I against India in Cuttack, with <strong data-start=\"281\" data-end=\"360\">Anrich Nortje set to play his first T20I since the 2024 T20 World Cup final<\/strong> against India. The pace spearhead was seen warming up ahead of the match, confirming his long-awaited return to the format.<\/p>\n<h3 data-start=\"486\" data-end=\"519\"><strong data-start=\"490\" data-end=\"517\">South Africa Playing XI<\/strong><\/h3>\n<ul data-start=\"520\" data-end=\"729\">\n<li data-start=\"520\" data-end=\"544\">\n<p data-start=\"522\" data-end=\"544\">Quinton de Kock (wk)<\/p>\n<\/li>\n<li data-start=\"545\" data-end=\"566\">\n<p data-start=\"547\" data-end=\"566\">Aiden Markram (c)<\/p>\n<\/li>\n<li data-start=\"567\" data-end=\"585\">\n<p data-start=\"569\" data-end=\"585\">Tristan Stubbs<\/p>\n<\/li>\n<li data-start=\"586\" data-end=\"603\">\n<p data-start=\"588\" data-end=\"603\">Dewald Brevis<\/p>\n<\/li>\n<li data-start=\"604\" data-end=\"620\">\n<p data-start=\"606\" data-end=\"620\">David Miller<\/p>\n<\/li>\n<li data-start=\"621\" data-end=\"641\">\n<p data-start=\"623\" data-end=\"641\">Donovan Ferreira<\/p>\n<\/li>\n<li data-start=\"642\" data-end=\"658\">\n<p data-start=\"644\" data-end=\"658\">Marco Jansen<\/p>\n<\/li>\n<li data-start=\"659\" data-end=\"677\">\n<p data-start=\"661\" data-end=\"677\">Keshav Maharaj<\/p>\n<\/li>\n<li data-start=\"678\" data-end=\"695\">\n<p data-start=\"680\" data-end=\"695\">Lutho Sipamla<\/p>\n<\/li>\n<li data-start=\"696\" data-end=\"711\">\n<p data-start=\"698\" data-end=\"711\">Lungi Ngidi<\/p>\n<\/li>\n<li data-start=\"712\" data-end=\"729\">\n<p data-start=\"714\" data-end=\"729\">Anrich Nortje<\/p>\n<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p data-start=\"731\" data-end=\"1015\">Nortje\u2019s comeback adds significant firepower to South Africa\u2019s pace attack, which already includes Ngidi and Jansen. His last T20I appearance came in the <strong data-start=\"885\" data-end=\"913\">2024 T20 World Cup final<\/strong>, making this return a notable boost for the visitors as they begin a five-match series against India.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>South Africa have named a strong Playing XI for the first T20I against India in Cuttack, with Anrich Nortje set\u2026<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":250,"featured_media":32457,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-9936","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-cricket"],"reading_time":"1 min read","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.businessupturn.com\/sports\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9936","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.businessupturn.com\/sports\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.businessupturn.com\/sports\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.businessupturn.com\/sports\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/250"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.businessupturn.com\/sports\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=9936"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.businessupturn.com\/sports\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9936\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.businessupturn.com\/sports\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/32457"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.businessupturn.com\/sports\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=9936"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.businessupturn.com\/sports\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=9936"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.businessupturn.com\/sports\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=9936"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}