{"id":626255,"date":"2026-06-07T16:50:12","date_gmt":"2026-06-07T16:50:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/626255\/"},"modified":"2026-06-07T16:50:12","modified_gmt":"2026-06-07T16:50:12","slug":"womens-t20-world-cup-launches-with-cricket-game-on-waterloo-bridge","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/626255\/","title":{"rendered":"Women&#8217;s T20 World Cup launches with cricket game on Waterloo Bridge"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Waterloo Bridge was shut to traffic as it became a cricket pitch for the launch of the Women&#8217;s ICC T20 World Cup.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Ahead of the first match, the 12 team captains gathered for a game on a strip of grass laid across the central London crossing, as part of a Captains&#8217; Carnival.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">The tournament begins on Friday, with hosts England playing Sri Lanka in the opening match at Edgbaston in Birmingham.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">It runs for 24 days across seven grounds in England, with 33 matches taking place in total before the final at Lord&#8217;s in London on 5 July.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Waterloo Bridge was shut to traffic as it became a cricket pitch for the launch of the Women&#8217;s&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":626256,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[34],"tags":[1721,101,56,54,55],"class_list":["post-626255","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-cricket","tag-cricket","tag-sports","tag-uk","tag-united-kingdom","tag-unitedkingdom"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/626255","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=626255"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/626255\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/626256"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=626255"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=626255"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=626255"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}