{"id":662467,"date":"2026-06-28T08:44:14","date_gmt":"2026-06-28T08:44:14","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/662467\/"},"modified":"2026-06-28T08:44:14","modified_gmt":"2026-06-28T08:44:14","slug":"womens-t20-world-cup-it-means-so-much-irish-end-long-wait-for-victory","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/662467\/","title":{"rendered":"Women&#8217;s T20 World Cup: &#8216;It means so much&#8217; &#8211; Irish end long wait for victory"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Ireland&#8217;s story is one of resilience, persistence and keeping spirits high despite a long litany of disappointments.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Lewis, who made back-to-back half-centuries in the tournament, was at last able to talk about leading the team to a World Cup victory. <\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">&#8220;I&#8217;m absolutely delighted and just so proud of the girls,&#8221; said the opener.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">&#8220;We knew it [the target] was reachable. The batting order we have is so deep and we&#8217;ve got some world-class players, so we were definitely confident. We also bowled really well towards the death. <\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">&#8220;We really restricted them and limited the boundaries, which is massive. It was then just getting ourselves in and playing positive cricket. We are such a close group and we&#8217;re just so happy.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Lewis returned from a leg injury she sustained with Lancashire in time for the tournament and added there had been &#8220;really positive periods&#8221; during the challenging World Cup. <\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">&#8220;It&#8217;s been a tough tournament &#8211; some close losses and some heavy losses but in a tournament like this you just have to dust them off and move on,&#8221; she added.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">&#8220;I think the girls have done that brilliantly. We had some really positive periods and spells.&#8221;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Ireland&#8217;s story is one of resilience, persistence and keeping spirits high despite a long litany of disappointments. Lewis,&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":662468,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[34],"tags":[1721,101,56,54,55],"class_list":["post-662467","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\/662467","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=662467"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/662467\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/662468"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=662467"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=662467"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=662467"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}