{"id":403784,"date":"2026-01-10T08:15:07","date_gmt":"2026-01-10T08:15:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/403784\/"},"modified":"2026-01-10T08:15:07","modified_gmt":"2026-01-10T08:15:07","slug":"we-are-acting-najmul-opens-up-on-toll-of-world-cup-controversy","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/403784\/","title":{"rendered":"&#8216;We are acting&#8217; &#8211; Najmul opens up on toll of World Cup controversy"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>&#8220;First of all, if you look at our World Cup results, we&#8217;ve never really played consistently good cricket. Last year, we did play well, but there were even better opportunities, and we couldn&#8217;t capitalise on them. But you&#8217;ll see that something always happens before every World Cup. I can say this from my experience of three World Cups &#8211; it does have an effect,&#8221; Najmul told reporters bluntly on Friday.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"&#8220;First of all, if you look at our World Cup results, we&#8217;ve never really played consistently good cricket.&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":403785,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[564],"tags":[64,63,13047,740,196949,160230,85],"class_list":["post-403784","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-cricket","tag-au","tag-australia","tag-bangladesh","tag-cricket","tag-icc-mens-t20-world-cup-2026","tag-najmul-hossain-shanto","tag-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/403784","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=403784"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/403784\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/403785"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=403784"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=403784"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=403784"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}