{"id":5124,"date":"2023-01-06T20:13:56","date_gmt":"2023-01-06T14:43:56","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.businessupturn.com\/sports\/?p=269708"},"modified":"2023-01-06T20:13:56","modified_gmt":"2023-01-06T14:43:56","slug":"icc-womens-t20-world-cup-england-name-alice-capsey-in-the-squad","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.businessupturn.com\/sports\/cricket\/icc-womens-t20-world-cup-england-name-alice-capsey-in-the-squad\/","title":{"rendered":"ICC Women\u2019s T20 World Cup: England name Alice Capsey in the squad"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The 15-person team that will go to South Africa for the ICC Women\u2019s T20 World Cup includes Alice Capsey. She broke her collarbone while playing for the West Indies in December 2022, and\u00a0though head coach Jon Lewis has said she hasn\u2019t fully recovered.<\/p>\n<section class=\"cb-nws-dtl-itms\">\n<p class=\"cb-nws-para\">\u201cWe hope Alice is fit enough, she\u2019s worked incredibly hard alongside the medical staff to get to this point and we\u2019ll give her every chance, but as we saw in the Caribbean the depth of talent and skill in the squad is growing fast and winning tournaments is about everyone collectively embracing the moment and enjoying the journey,\u201d said head coach Jon Lewis.<\/p>\n<\/section>\n<div class=\"cb-nws-dtl-itms\">\u201cIt\u2019s always exciting to name a World Cup squad, and there\u2019s a great deal of talent in this group. We saw a lot of good things in the West Indies, a lot of progress around shifting our mindset as a team, and I\u2019m excited to see how we take that into the challenge of a global tournament.<\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<section class=\"cb-nws-dtl-itms\">\n<p class=\"cb-nws-para\">\u201cIt\u2019s an honour for me to lead a team into a World Cup and I know that we will be giving it everything we have got, not only to show everyone who we are as a team and how we want to play, but also to keep inspiring people to play the game we all love so much,\u201d Lewis added.<\/p>\n<p>In addition, England has called up Kate Cross, a 31-year-old who last participated in a T20I in December of 2019. Dani Gibson and Issy Wong have been assigned as the travelling reserves.<\/p>\n<\/section>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The 15-person team that will go to South Africa for the ICC Women\u2019s T20 World Cup includes Alice Capsey. She\u2026<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":250,"featured_media":28095,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[3432],"class_list":["post-5124","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-cricket","tag-england"],"reading_time":"2 min read","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.businessupturn.com\/sports\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5124","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=5124"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.businessupturn.com\/sports\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5124\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.businessupturn.com\/sports\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/28095"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.businessupturn.com\/sports\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5124"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.businessupturn.com\/sports\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5124"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.businessupturn.com\/sports\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5124"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}