{"id":7942,"date":"2023-12-22T18:34:22","date_gmt":"2023-12-22T13:04:22","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.businessupturn.com\/sports\/?p=385561"},"modified":"2023-12-22T18:34:22","modified_gmt":"2023-12-22T13:04:22","slug":"i-will-come-back-in-shape-as-ufc-fighter-andre-russell-on-t20-world-cup-2024","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.businessupturn.com\/sports\/cricket\/i-will-come-back-in-shape-as-ufc-fighter-andre-russell-on-t20-world-cup-2024\/","title":{"rendered":"I will come back in shape, as UFC fighter: Andre Russell on T20 World Cup 2024"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>West Indies dynamo Andre Russell, after a triumphant return to international cricket, is determined to achieve full fitness and represent his country in the T20 World Cup 2024.<\/p>\n<p>The star all-rounder, who last played for the Windies in the 2021 T20 World Cup, has left a lasting impact with a stellar performance, picking up 7 wickets (the second-highest) and scoring 105 runs at an impressive strike rate of 169.35.<\/p>\n<p>Contrary to the speculations of his departure from international cricket, Russell has expressed clear intentions of donning the West Indies jersey once again.<\/p>\n<p>With an eye on the opportunity to secure a record third title at the T20 World Cup 2024, Russell is committed to achieving optimal fitness, humorously stating, \u201cI\u2019ll be in better shape, to be honest; I\u2019ll be looking like a UFC fighter.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Andre Russell sets sights on T20 World Cup 2024 after triumphant international comeback<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":250,"featured_media":30831,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[621],"class_list":["post-7942","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-cricket","tag-andre-russell"],"reading_time":"1 min read","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.businessupturn.com\/sports\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7942","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=7942"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.businessupturn.com\/sports\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7942\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.businessupturn.com\/sports\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/30831"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.businessupturn.com\/sports\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=7942"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.businessupturn.com\/sports\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=7942"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.businessupturn.com\/sports\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=7942"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}