{"id":132504,"date":"2020-02-17T01:01:43","date_gmt":"2020-02-17T00:01:43","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/2020\/02\/17\/england-in-the-running-to-upset-australia-in-womens-t20-world-cup\/"},"modified":"2020-02-17T01:01:43","modified_gmt":"2020-02-17T00:01:43","slug":"england-in-the-running-to-upset-australia-in-womens-t20-world-cup","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/?p=132504","title":{"rendered":"England in the running to upset Australia in Women\u2019s T20 World Cup"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Lisa Keightley\u2019s side are genuine contenders for the trophy despite the holders\u2019 status as clear favouritesThe latest edition of the Women\u2019s T20 World Cup gets under way in Australia on Friday and England, under their new coach, Lisa Keightley, will certainly consider themselves contenders even after a disappointing Women\u2019s Ashes series last summer.Heather Knight\u2019s side, who won the 50-over World Cup so memorably at Lord\u2019s three years ago, failed to reach the final of their recent tri-series against India and Australia, eliminated courtesy of a lower net run-rate after the series was tied three ways on points, but they did rack up important wins against both opponents. Knight led from the front as England\u2019s leading run scorer in the series, hitting a 45-ball 78 in their tied match against the Australians before seeing them over the line in the super-over with consecutive boundaries. Continue reading&#8230;<br \/>\nVia: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/sport\/2020\/feb\/17\/england-lisa-keightley-womens-t20-world-cup-australia\" target=\"_blank\">England in the running to upset Australia in Women\u2019s T20 World Cup<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Lisa Keightley\u2019s side are genuine contenders for the trophy despite the holders\u2019 status as clear favouritesThe latest edition of the Women\u2019s T20 World Cup gets under way in Australia on Friday and England, under their new coach, Lisa Keightley, will certainly consider themselves contenders even after a disappointing Women\u2019s Ashes [&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-132504","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-english"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/132504","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=132504"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/132504\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=132504"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=132504"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=132504"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}