{"id":432022,"date":"2026-02-18T09:20:08","date_gmt":"2026-02-18T09:20:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/432022\/"},"modified":"2026-02-18T09:20:08","modified_gmt":"2026-02-18T09:20:08","slug":"we-have-to-find-a-way-to-continue-to-grow-the-game-globally-aaron-finch","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/432022\/","title":{"rendered":"We have to find a way to continue to grow the game globally: Aaron Finch"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Yet, as the likes of Italy, Nepal, and the USA leave their footprints on the world stage, they will return to a grim reality once it&#8217;s over. For these nations, a World Cup isn&#8217;t just a tournament, it&#8217;s a rare audition. Once the curtains fall, they are sucked back into a vicious cycle &#8211; starved of elite fixtures by a calendar where T20 leagues have bought up all the prime real estate.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Yet, as the likes of Italy, Nepal, and the USA leave their footprints on the world stage, they&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":432023,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[34],"tags":[106643,1721,23787,124727,101,56,54,55],"class_list":["post-432022","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-cricket","tag-aaron-finch","tag-cricket","tag-dale-steyn","tag-icc-mens-t20-world-cup-2026","tag-sports","tag-uk","tag-united-kingdom","tag-unitedkingdom"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/432022","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=432022"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/432022\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/432023"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=432022"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=432022"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=432022"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}