{"id":23061,"date":"2023-03-02T21:14:52","date_gmt":"2023-03-02T15:44:52","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.businessupturn.com\/sports\/?p=285483"},"modified":"2023-03-04T15:27:16","modified_gmt":"2023-03-04T09:57:16","slug":"wpl-australian-skipper-meg-lanning-to-lead-delhi-capitals","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.businessupturn.com\/sports\/cricket\/wpl\/wpl-australian-skipper-meg-lanning-to-lead-delhi-capitals\/","title":{"rendered":"WPL: Australian skipper Meg Lanning to lead Delhi Capitals"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Australia captain Meg Lanning will captain the Delhi Capitals in the inaugural Women\u2019s Premier League (WPL), which begins on March 4 in Mumbai. Lanning has won a record four T20 World Cups as Australia\u2019s captain, including the most recent one last month in South Africa, where Australia defeated the hosts in the final.<\/p>\n<p>Lanning, 30, arrived in Mumbai for the WPL on Thursday. She has appeared in 132 T20Is, scoring 3405 runs with two centuries and 15 half-centuries at a strike rate of 116.37 and an average of 36.61. She has captained Australia in 100 T20Is, the most by any female player in the format.<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"550\" data-dnt=\"true\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">\ud83d\udcf8 | Glimpses from today's mega launch event where our first-ever squad was introduced for the inaugural season of <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/hashtag\/TATAWPL?src=hash&ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">#TATAWPL<\/a>. <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/hashtag\/CapitalsUniverse?src=hash&ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">#CapitalsUniverse<\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/hashtag\/YehHaiNayiDilli?src=hash&ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">#YehHaiNayiDilli<\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/hashtag\/MegLanning?src=hash&ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">#MegLanning<\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/VVi5YHBZol\">pic.twitter.com\/VVi5YHBZol<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2014 Delhi Capitals (@DelhiCapitals) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/DelhiCapitals\/status\/1631273768072142848?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">March 2, 2023<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<div>Lanning said of her appointment: \u201cIt\u2019s a very proud moment for me, firstly to be involved with Delhi Capitals and then to lead them. It\u2019s about enjoying yourself, getting the best out of yourself.<\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<div>\u201cWPL is a massive moment for the sport, it\u2019s the logical next step and makes a lot of sense. Cricket in India is people\u2019s lives and the fact that WPL is up and running, and to be involv<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Australia captain Meg Lanning will captain the Delhi Capitals in the inaugural Women\u2019s Premier League (WPL), which begins on March\u2026<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":250,"featured_media":43208,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[837,587,1528,3499],"class_list":["post-23061","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-wpl","tag-dc","tag-delhi-capitals","tag-meg-lanning","tag-wpl"],"reading_time":"1 min read","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.businessupturn.com\/sports\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23061","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.businessupturn.com\/sports\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.businessupturn.com\/sports\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.businessupturn.com\/sports\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/250"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.businessupturn.com\/sports\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=23061"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.businessupturn.com\/sports\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23061\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.businessupturn.com\/sports\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/43208"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.businessupturn.com\/sports\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=23061"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.businessupturn.com\/sports\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=23061"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.businessupturn.com\/sports\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=23061"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}