{"id":355449,"date":"2026-01-06T16:31:07","date_gmt":"2026-01-06T16:31:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/355449\/"},"modified":"2026-01-06T16:31:07","modified_gmt":"2026-01-06T16:31:07","slug":"its-the-strongest-squad-that-weve-ever-had-gardner-optimistic-of-giants-chances","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/355449\/","title":{"rendered":"&#8216;It&#8217;s the strongest squad that we&#8217;ve ever had&#8217;: Gardner optimistic of Giants&#8217; chances"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>&#8220;Certainly we would have loved a more experienced Indian batter, but they&#8217;re all aligned to other teams and there&#8217;s plenty of youth within our side, and I guess it&#8217;s about exposing them to the highest level as well, knowing that they&#8217;ve got so much experience around them. So yes, we might not have the likes of Harman or Smriti within our side, but we have to win with who we&#8217;ve got, and I think that we&#8217;ve got a fantastic squad this year, so there&#8217;s no reason that we can&#8217;t win.&#8221;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"&#8220;Certainly we would have loved a more experienced Indian batter, but they&#8217;re all aligned to other teams and&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":355450,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[34],"tags":[98358,1721,136744,136745,101,56,54,55,129038],"class_list":["post-355449","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-cricket","tag-ashleigh-gardner","tag-cricket","tag-gujarat-giants-women","tag-michael-klinger","tag-sports","tag-uk","tag-united-kingdom","tag-unitedkingdom","tag-womens-premier-league-2026"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/355449","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=355449"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/355449\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/355450"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=355449"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=355449"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=355449"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}