{"id":7626,"date":"2017-09-22T02:03:05","date_gmt":"2017-09-22T00:03:05","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/2017\/09\/22\/not-good-enough-australia-must-arrest-trend-of-batting-collapses-says-smith\/"},"modified":"2017-09-22T02:03:05","modified_gmt":"2017-09-22T00:03:05","slug":"not-good-enough-australia-must-arrest-trend-of-batting-collapses-says-smith","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/?p=7626","title":{"rendered":"&#039;Not good enough&#039;: Australia must arrest trend of batting collapses, says Smith"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Australia lose last eight wickets for 112 runs in ODI defeat to IndiaCaptain Steve Smith laments his side\u2019s inability to build partnershipsAustralia captain Steve Smith has a blunt message for his batsmen: the collapses must stop now. The visitors are in dire trouble in their one-day international series against India after a 50-run loss in Kolkata put them 2-0 down.Smith said batting collapses had become a worrying trend in all forms of Australian cricket after losing their last eight wickets for 112 in game two. \u201cWe\u2019ve had a lot of collapses and we need to stop,\u201d he said. Continue reading&#8230;<br \/>\nVia: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/sport\/2017\/sep\/22\/not-good-enough-australia-must-arrest-trend-of-batting-collapses-says-smith\" target=\"_blank\">&#039;Not good enough&#039;: Australia must arrest trend of batting collapses, says Smith<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Australia lose last eight wickets for 112 runs in ODI defeat to IndiaCaptain Steve Smith laments his side\u2019s inability to build partnershipsAustralia captain Steve Smith has a blunt message for his batsmen: the collapses must stop now. The visitors are in dire trouble in their one-day international series against India [&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-7626","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-english"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7626","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=7626"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7626\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=7626"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=7626"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=7626"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}