{"id":406721,"date":"2026-02-04T03:43:18","date_gmt":"2026-02-04T03:43:18","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/406721\/"},"modified":"2026-02-04T03:43:18","modified_gmt":"2026-02-04T03:43:18","slug":"sophie-devine-the-finisher-with-the-ball","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/406721\/","title":{"rendered":"Sophie Devine, the finisher with the ball"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Over the last 18 months, clarity has come in the form of properly defined roles. Whether she&#8217;s captaining or not, across teams and competitions, Devine has found consistency in when &#8211; and why &#8211; she bowls. &#8220;The teams that I&#8217;ve played in lately, there&#8217;s been a really clearly defined role for me and where I fit into that. Any time that you have consistency with roles &#8211; you ask any player, whether that&#8217;s with a bat or a ball &#8211; is you build confidence from that and knowing what you need to do and what&#8217;s required. I&#8217;m no different to anyone else. Having that consistency and clarity of role has helped me&#8230; Ultimately, it&#8217;s always about putting the team first.&#8221;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Over the last 18 months, clarity has come in the form of properly defined roles. Whether she&#8217;s captaining&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":406722,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[34],"tags":[1721,151501,93659,101,56,54,55,129038],"class_list":["post-406721","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-cricket","tag-cricket","tag-gujarat-giant","tag-sophie-devine","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\/406721","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=406721"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/406721\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/406722"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=406721"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=406721"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=406721"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}