{"id":643471,"date":"2026-06-17T12:06:09","date_gmt":"2026-06-17T12:06:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/643471\/"},"modified":"2026-06-17T12:06:09","modified_gmt":"2026-06-17T12:06:09","slug":"womens-t20-world-cup-australias-pheobe-litchfield-set-to-miss-three-games-with-injury","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/643471\/","title":{"rendered":"Women&#8217;s T20 World Cup: Australia&#8217;s Pheobe Litchfield set to miss three games with injury"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Opener Phoebe Litchfield is expected to miss Australia&#8217;s next three matches in the Women&#8217;s T20 World Cup after sustaining a quad injury while batting against South Africa.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">All-rounder Ashleigh Gardner also missed Wednesday&#8217;s match against Bangladesh at Headingley with an ankle sprain.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">The six-time winners, who beat South Africa by 65 runs in their opening game, face the Netherlands on Saturday and Pakistan on Tuesday.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Australia are hopeful Litchfield will be fit for their final group game against India on 28 June.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Grace Harris replaced Litchfield against Bangladesh, with seamer Megan Schutt in for Gardner.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Opener Phoebe Litchfield is expected to miss Australia&#8217;s next three matches in the Women&#8217;s T20 World Cup after&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":643472,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[34],"tags":[1721,101,56,54,55],"class_list":["post-643471","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\/643471","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=643471"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/643471\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/643472"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=643471"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=643471"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=643471"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}