{"id":615014,"date":"2026-04-18T12:18:22","date_gmt":"2026-04-18T12:18:22","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/615014\/"},"modified":"2026-04-18T12:18:22","modified_gmt":"2026-04-18T12:18:22","slug":"south-africa-gain-early-edge-in-t20wc-preparations-icc-womens-t20-world-cup-2026","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/615014\/","title":{"rendered":"South Africa gain early edge in T20WC preparations | ICC Women&#8217;s T20 World Cup, 2026"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.icc-cricket.com\/tournaments\/womens-t20-worldcup-2026\/news\/women-s-t20-world-cup-tournament-explainer\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Women\u2019s T20 World Cup 2026: Tournament Explainer!<\/a><\/p>\n<p>That T20 World Cup lens was equally present in India\u2019s camp. Despite the defeat, Jemimah Rodrigues saw enough positives in the performance while admitting the side fell short with the bat.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe were around 15-20 runs short. When the time came to capitalise, we were not able to capitalise,\u201d Rodrigues said<\/p>\n<p>Rodrigues\u2019 36 and skipper Harmanpreet Kaur\u2019s unbeaten 47 had steadied India after early blows, but the inability to push on in the closing overs proved decisive.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI got out at the wrong time because for set batters it\u2019s easier to take it deep.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;In the next match, I will come back and take that responsibility again,&#8221; she admitted.<\/p>\n<p>Even in defeat, India\u2019s focus remains on the larger preparation arc heading into the T20 World Cup.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Coming to the World Cup, we have batting till the end, a lot of all-rounders.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;But also, the all-rounders coming later have not got so much match time and experience.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;So, I think playing here in South Africa is going to be really great for us as a preparation also for the World Cup and for our entire batting order too,&#8221; she added.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Women\u2019s T20 World Cup 2026: Tournament Explainer! That T20 World Cup lens was equally present in India\u2019s camp.&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":615015,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[564],"tags":[64,63,740,95832,95830,95836,95846,95842,95845,95843,1950,95844,95841,95847,95853,95852,95833,7301,95851,95835,95834,90626,95839,95840,95849,85,95848,95850,95838,95831,95837],"class_list":{"0":"post-615014","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-cricket","8":"tag-au","9":"tag-australia","10":"tag-cricket","11":"tag-cricket-breaking-news","12":"tag-cricket-headlines-today","13":"tag-cricket-live-score","14":"tag-cricket-match-highlights-today","15":"tag-cricket-match-live-streaming-score","16":"tag-cricket-match-result-today","17":"tag-cricket-match-today-live","18":"tag-cricket-news","19":"tag-cricket-results-today","20":"tag-cricket-scorecard-live","21":"tag-cricket-series-updates","22":"tag-cricket-world-cup-live-score","23":"tag-cricket-world-cup-news","24":"tag-cricket-world-news","25":"tag-icc","26":"tag-icc-cricket-updates","27":"tag-international-cricket-live-score","28":"tag-international-cricket-news","29":"tag-latest-cricket-news","30":"tag-latest-cricket-scores","31":"tag-live-cricket-match-update","32":"tag-odi-cricket-live-score","33":"tag-sports","34":"tag-t20-cricket-live-score","35":"tag-test-cricket-live-score","36":"tag-today-cricket-live-score","37":"tag-today-cricket-news-update","38":"tag-todays-cricket-match-score"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/615014","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=615014"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/615014\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/615015"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=615014"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=615014"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=615014"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}