{"id":7180,"date":"2025-07-20T00:40:10","date_gmt":"2025-07-20T00:40:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/7180\/"},"modified":"2025-07-20T00:40:10","modified_gmt":"2025-07-20T00:40:10","slug":"russell-votes-his-explosive-semi-final-heist-as-career-best","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/7180\/","title":{"rendered":"Russell votes his explosive semi-final heist as career-best"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Andre Russell recently announced his decision to retire from international cricket after the first two <a href=\"https:\/\/www.icc-cricket.com\/news\/youngsters-named-in-west-indies-t20i-squad-against-australia\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">T20Is against Australia<\/a> on July 20 and 22 both being played in his home ground at Sabina Park, Jamaica.<\/p>\n<p>Days before the first game of the series, Russell looked back at his cricketing career with pride.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;It&#8217;s a pretty good feeling,I think, [from the] first time I came to Sabina Park as a kid, and then to actually walk on the grass and feel the atmosphere and look in the stands and everything, and [to] now, I&#8217;ve achieved so much out of cricket for the last couple of years. I did my best in every chance I got, representing the West Indies.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;I think it&#8217;s the perfect ground and the perfect series &#8211; against a good team as well, Australia &#8211; to end my international career.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Andre Russell recently announced his decision to retire from international cricket after the first two T20Is against Australia&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":7181,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[564],"tags":[8997,5101,64,63,740,5103,44,85],"class_list":["post-7180","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-cricket","tag-andre-russell-04-29-1988","tag-app-stream","tag-au","tag-australia","tag-cricket","tag-highlighted-news","tag-news","tag-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7180","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=7180"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7180\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/7181"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=7180"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=7180"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=7180"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}