{"id":453183,"date":"2026-03-02T06:39:05","date_gmt":"2026-03-02T06:39:05","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/453183\/"},"modified":"2026-03-02T06:39:05","modified_gmt":"2026-03-02T06:39:05","slug":"t20-world-cup-2026-sa-coach-shukri-conrad-embracing-favourites-tag-ahead-of-semi-finals","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/453183\/","title":{"rendered":"T20 World Cup 2026 &#8211; SA coach Shukri Conrad embracing favourites tag ahead of semi-finals"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>However, the lightness of his attitude is more likely down to his perspective. Conrad is a realist, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.espncricinfo.com\/story\/south-africa-coach-shukri-conrad-we-ve-got-to-do-tough-better-but-we-re-starting-to-do-tough-now-1468037\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">who told ESPNcricinfo<\/a> that being South African forces him to see the world a certain kind of way, because &#8220;in our country, the minority are walking for pleasure but the majority are still walking to get to work&#8221;. So, sport is what it should be: joyous first, a job later.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"However, the lightness of his attitude is more likely down to his perspective. Conrad is a realist, who&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":453184,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[34],"tags":[132648,1721,36623,49,50,132647,101,56,54,55],"class_list":["post-453183","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-cricket","tag-bulletin","tag-cricket","tag-daily","tag-headlines","tag-news","tag-package","tag-sports","tag-uk","tag-united-kingdom","tag-unitedkingdom"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/453183","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=453183"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/453183\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/453184"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=453183"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=453183"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=453183"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}