{"id":652116,"date":"2026-06-22T12:09:09","date_gmt":"2026-06-22T12:09:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/652116\/"},"modified":"2026-06-22T12:09:09","modified_gmt":"2026-06-22T12:09:09","slug":"icc-womens-t20-world-cup-2026-i-think-im-a-failure-as-a-captain-chamari-athapaththu-distraught-after-loss-to-west-indies","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/652116\/","title":{"rendered":"ICC Women&#8217;s T20 World Cup 2026: &#8216;I think I&#8217;m a failure as a captain&#8217;: Chamari Athapaththu distraught after loss to West Indies"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>&#8220;I think I tried my best, I think I should have played more responsibly than this,&#8221; Athapaththu conceded. &#8220;If I played more responsibly than this today, we could have win this match today. So, I regret that, especially I don&#8217;t like to blame anyone, and I think I have more responsibility as a player, as the captain of the team and as a player with more experience. So, I&#8217;m very sad, I feel like I lost my last chance&#8221;.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"&#8220;I think I tried my best, I think I should have played more responsibly than this,&#8221; Athapaththu conceded.&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":652117,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[34],"tags":[219320,1721,128176,101,128819,56,54,55],"class_list":["post-652116","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-cricket","tag-chamari-athapaththu","tag-cricket","tag-icc-womens-t20-world-cup-2026","tag-sports","tag-sri-lanka-women","tag-uk","tag-united-kingdom","tag-unitedkingdom"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/652116","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=652116"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/652116\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/652117"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=652116"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=652116"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=652116"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}