{"id":479746,"date":"2026-03-17T04:15:10","date_gmt":"2026-03-17T04:15:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/479746\/"},"modified":"2026-03-17T04:15:10","modified_gmt":"2026-03-17T04:15:10","slug":"ponting-touts-india-as-strongest-ever-t20i-team-post-t20wc-win-icc-mens-t20-world-cup-2026","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/479746\/","title":{"rendered":"Ponting touts India as strongest-ever T20I team post T20WC win | ICC Men&#8217;s T20 World Cup, 2026"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>For Ponting, the triumph is the culmination of years of building a squad capable of dominating global white-ball tournaments, as they have done, going unbeaten in ICC events since the 2024 Men\u2019s T20 World Cup and the 2025 ICC Men\u2019s Champions Trophy &#8211; before a loss to South Africa in the Super Eights in the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.icc-cricket.com\/tournaments\/mens-t20-world-cup-2026\/news\/all-records-broken-at-the-icc-men-s-t20-world-cup-2026\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">2026 T20 World Cup<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThis is a very, very strong Indian white-ball team, not just a T20 team. Back-to-back World Cups, hats off to them,\u201d Ponting added.<\/p>\n<p>The former Australia skipper highlighted that the squad&#8217;s volume of high-pressure cricket, both internationally and in the Indian Premier League, has helped shape a team built for major tournaments.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe one thing that\u2019s probably overlooked with this current team is the amount of experience and the amount of cricket a lot of these guys have played, whether it\u2019s international cricket or even just the IPL,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"For Ponting, the triumph is the culmination of years of building a squad capable of dominating global white-ball&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":479747,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[34],"tags":[1721,67813,67811,67817,67827,67823,67826,67824,16326,67825,67822,67828,67834,67833,67814,6518,67832,67816,67815,67810,67820,67821,67830,101,67829,67831,67819,67812,67818,56,54,55],"class_list":["post-479746","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-cricket","tag-cricket","tag-cricket-breaking-news","tag-cricket-headlines-today","tag-cricket-live-score","tag-cricket-match-highlights-today","tag-cricket-match-live-streaming-score","tag-cricket-match-result-today","tag-cricket-match-today-live","tag-cricket-news","tag-cricket-results-today","tag-cricket-scorecard-live","tag-cricket-series-updates","tag-cricket-world-cup-live-score","tag-cricket-world-cup-news","tag-cricket-world-news","tag-icc","tag-icc-cricket-updates","tag-international-cricket-live-score","tag-international-cricket-news","tag-latest-cricket-news","tag-latest-cricket-scores","tag-live-cricket-match-update","tag-odi-cricket-live-score","tag-sports","tag-t20-cricket-live-score","tag-test-cricket-live-score","tag-today-cricket-live-score","tag-today-cricket-news-update","tag-todays-cricket-match-score","tag-uk","tag-united-kingdom","tag-unitedkingdom"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/479746","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=479746"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/479746\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/479747"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=479746"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=479746"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=479746"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}