{"id":508666,"date":"2026-06-19T22:52:10","date_gmt":"2026-06-19T22:52:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/508666\/"},"modified":"2026-06-19T22:52:10","modified_gmt":"2026-06-19T22:52:10","slug":"ireland-come-up-just-short-against-t20-world-cup-holders","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/508666\/","title":{"rendered":"Ireland come up just short against T20 World Cup holders"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Ireland suffered heartbreak at the Women&#8217;s T20 World Cup with a four-run loss to reigning champions New Zealand.<\/p>\n<p>Ireland looked to be heading for a famous victory in Southampton when they reached 116 for one chasing 141 but they fell just short, finishing on 136 for four.<\/p>\n<p>New Zealand have struggled in the tournament so far, losing their first two games, and they could only muster 140 for six from their 20 overs, having at one stage been 10 for three.<\/p>\n<p>Ireland captain Gaby Lewis and Orla Prendergast both scored half-centuries in reply, but neither could make it to the end and the White Ferns just about held on.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Ireland suffered heartbreak at the Women&#8217;s T20 World Cup with a four-run loss to reigning champions New Zealand.&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":508667,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[61,60,43],"class_list":["post-508666","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-ireland","tag-ie","tag-ireland","tag-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/508666","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=508666"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/508666\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/508667"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=508666"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=508666"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=508666"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}