{"id":219234,"date":"2025-10-17T03:06:07","date_gmt":"2025-10-17T03:06:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/219234\/"},"modified":"2025-10-17T03:06:07","modified_gmt":"2025-10-17T03:06:07","slug":"womens-cricket-world-cup-permutations-scenarios-what-england-and-india-need-to-reach-semi-finals","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/219234\/","title":{"rendered":"Women&#8217;s Cricket World Cup permutations &#038; scenarios: What England and India need to reach semi-finals"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">South Africa are well-placed to reach the semi-finals. <\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Two wins in their remaining three matches against Sri Lanka, Pakistan and Australia would be enough to secure a top-four finish while one may well be enough.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">India, who have only four points after four games, need three wins from matches against England, New Zealand and Bangladesh to guarantee their progression.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Two would likely be enough, especially if one of those is against New Zealand.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Similarly, New Zealand will go through with three wins &#8211; they play Pakistan, India and England &#8211; and while two victories could be enough, it is less certain.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Bangladesh need to win their remaining games against Sri Lanka and India and hope results go their way. <\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Pakistan and Sri Lanka&#8217;s best hope is to win all of their matches and await the other results. <\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">The Colombo weather could yet further dent their chances.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"South Africa are well-placed to reach the semi-finals. Two wins in their remaining three matches against Sri Lanka,&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":219235,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[564],"tags":[64,63,740,85],"class_list":["post-219234","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-cricket","tag-au","tag-australia","tag-cricket","tag-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/219234","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=219234"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/219234\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/219235"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=219234"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=219234"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=219234"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}