{"id":60921,"date":"2023-02-04T14:59:11","date_gmt":"2023-02-04T14:59:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/showbizztoday.com\/index.php\/2023\/02\/04\/icc-women-t20-wc-watch-harmanpreet-kaur-meg-lanning-heather-knight-pose-with-t20-world-cup-trophy-as-warm-up-fixtures-kick-off\/"},"modified":"2023-02-04T14:59:11","modified_gmt":"2023-02-04T14:59:11","slug":"icc-women-t20-wc-watch-harmanpreet-kaur-meg-lanning-heather-knight-pose-with-t20-world-cup-trophy-as-heat-up-fixtures-kick-off","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/showbizztoday.com\/index.php\/2023\/02\/04\/icc-women-t20-wc-watch-harmanpreet-kaur-meg-lanning-heather-knight-pose-with-t20-world-cup-trophy-as-heat-up-fixtures-kick-off\/","title":{"rendered":"ICC Women T20 WC: WATCH Harmanpreet Kaur, Meg Lanning, Heather Knight pose with T20 World Cup Trophy as heat up fixtures kick off"},"content":{"rendered":"<p> [ad_1]<br \/>\n<\/p>\n<div>\n<p>ICC Women T20 WC:\u00a0Cape Town\u2019s Table Mountain was the backdrop for the ICC Women\u2019s T20 World Cup Captains\u2019 Day, setting the tone\u2026<\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<div>\n<p><strong>ICC Women T20 WC:\u00a0<\/strong>Cape Town\u2019s Table Mountain was the backdrop for the ICC Women\u2019s T20 World Cup Captains\u2019 Day, setting the tone for an thrilling month of fast-paced and high-energy cricket because the World Cup involves South African shores for the very first time. <strong>Follow Women\u2019s T20 World Cup 2023 updates with <a href=\"https:\/\/www.insidesport.in\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">InsideSport.IN.\u00a0<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n<aside class=\"scaip scaip-1    \">\n\t\t<\/aside>\n<p>The Captains\u2019 Day which came about at Cape Town\u2019s Waterfront marks the beginning of the eight version of the World Cup which is now simply six days away.<\/p>\n<p><strong><a href=\"https:\/\/www.insidesport.in\/womens-t20-world-cup-matches-for-womens-t20-wc-start-on-february-10-all-you-want-to-know-about-match-timing-teams-fixture-live-streaming-details-check-out\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Women\u2019s T20 World Cup: Matches for Women\u2019s T20 WC begin on February 10, all you wish to learn about match timing, groups, fixture &amp; LIVE Streaming particulars: Check Out<\/a> <\/strong><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><strong>ICC Women T20 WC: Captain\u2019s Day in Cape Town, WATCH Harmanpreet Kaur, Meg Lanning, Heather Knight pose with T20 World Cup Trophy as heat up fixtures kick off \u2013 Check out<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n<aside class=\"scaip scaip-2    \">\n\t\t<\/aside>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\">\n<p dir=\"ltr\" lang=\"en\">Picture excellent \ud83d\ude0d<\/p>\n<p>Which captain is main their aspect to the ICC Women\u2019s <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/hashtag\/T20WorldCup?src=hash&amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">#T20WorldCup<\/a> 2023 title? \ud83e\udd14 <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/ioUhKngxVP\">pic.twitter.com\/ioUhKngxVP<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2014 ICC (@ICC) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/ICC\/status\/1621855061352529921?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">February 4, 2023<\/a><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>The look forward to Africa\u2019s first Women\u2019s T20 World Cup is almost over as the ten greatest groups on the earth will probably be in motion throughout three iconic venues, Newlands Cricket Ground in Cape Town, Boland Park in Paarl and St George\u2019s Park in Gqeberha, with the opening match going down on 10 February, when South Africa face Sri Lanka at Newlands Cricket Ground in Cape Town.<\/p>\n<p>The 10 captains have shared their pleasure and ideas forward of the beginning of the occasion.<\/p>\n<aside class=\"scaip scaip-3    \">\n\t\t<\/aside>\n<p><strong>Australia\u2019s Meg Lanning mentioned<\/strong>: \u201cIt\u2019s great to be here, we\u2019ve been looking forward to this tournament for a while. We\u2019ve spent a couple of days getting used to the new climate \u2013 it\u2019s pretty hot here \u2013 and there\u2019s some amazing things to see and experience. We\u2019re pumped to be here, World Cups are always massive to be a part of and we\u2019re looking forward to taking on everyone else in our pool and hopefully, playing well.\u201d<\/p>\n<p><strong>New Zealand\u2019s Sophie Devine mentioned<\/strong>: \u201cIt\u2019s such an awesome experience. Taking part in a World Cup is such a special moment and honour to represent your country. This is an awesome opportunity to show off our beautiful game to the rest of the world.\u201d<\/p>\n<p><strong>South Africa\u2019s Sune Luus mentioned<\/strong>: \u201cI\u2019m extremely excited to be here as part of this historic moment for South African cricket, hosting a women\u2019s T20 World Cup for the very first time. As a team, we\u2019re really excited to be representing our nation here at home and we\u2019re looking forward to doing everything we can to keep the trophy here at home. The excitement that we\u2019ve experience from people here in Cape Town and all over the country, telling us how excited they are to support us and the tournament has been really humbling and we just want to go out there and do our best for them.<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><strong>ICC Women T20 WC: Captain\u2019s Day in Cape Town, WATCH Harmanpreet Kaur, Meg Lanning, Heather Knight pose with T20 World Cup Trophy as warm up fixtures kick off \u2013 Check out<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n<p><strong>Sri Lanka\u2019s Chamari Athapaththu said<\/strong>: \u201cIn Sri Lanka, a lot of young girls are beginning to play cricket because they are looking up to myself and our team. The support we have been getting has been really great from back home and we are excited to play in this T20 World Cup and play for our country.\u201d<\/p>\n<p><strong>Bangladesh\u2019s Nigar Sultana Joty mentioned<\/strong>: \u201cIt\u2019s great to be here and we are so happy to qualify for this tournament. So many of us have played cricket for many years, but this is only our fifth T20 World Cup. We have never gotten a win, but we are looking forward to trying our best for this one.\u201d<\/p>\n<p><strong>India\u2019s Harmanpreet Kaur mentioned<\/strong>: \u201cAfter watching the U19 World Cup, we are motivated to do what they have done. They have motivated us to do well, they have done it and we have not done it yet. It was a very special moment for all of us and after watching the U19s many of the girls back home will also want to play cricket and that\u2019s always our aim to motivate young girls who can come and play cricket.\u201d<\/p>\n<p><strong>Pakistan\u2019s Bismah Maroof mentioned<\/strong>: \u201cWe have improved as a team over the years and this tournament gives us another opportunity to test ourselves. We are all pumped up and we\u2019re excited to put in our best efforts to create good results for our team.\u201d<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><strong>ICC Women T20 WC: Captain\u2019s Day in Cape Town, WATCH Harmanpreet Kaur, Meg Lanning, Heather Knight pose with T20 World Cup Trophy as heat up fixtures kick off \u2013 Check out<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n<p><strong>England\u2019s Heather Knight mentioned<\/strong>: \u201cOur job as a team is to play the group games in front of us and to try to get out of the group stages. Everyone starts on the same page, we\u2019re pretty clear as a team how we want to go about things and in a T20 World Cup, you don\u2019t have much chance to slip up and our sole focus is on that.<\/p>\n<p>Us as a squad we\u2019ve brought in a few young players (from the U19 team) which has kept us old girls on our toes and we\u2019ve got that real nice balance of youth and experience. The amount of young players coming through, it\u2019s great to see cricket as a real option for young girls around the world.\u201d<\/p>\n<p><strong>Ireland\u2019s Laura Delany mentioned<\/strong>: \u201cAfter we didn\u2019t qualify for the last World Cup cricket in Ireland has changed massively over the last three or four years and the introduction of full-time contracts has now allowed us to train on a full time basis but now guarantees us games against the best sides in the world and as a team that\u2019s the only way we\u2019re going to grow and develop. We\u2019re looking forward of the next couple of weeks, we know it\u2019s going to be a tough challenge but it\u2019s one that we welcome.\u201d<\/p>\n<p><strong>West Indies\u2019 Hayley Matthews mentioned<\/strong>: \u201cWe\u2019ve had the tri-series between ourselves, india and South Africa and it was a really great opportunity to be down here and get acclimatized to the conditions and see where we\u2019re at with our game as well. A good opportunity for us to get out there in a T20 World Cup in a place we\u2019ve been quite a lot over the last couple of years.\u201d<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><strong>ICC Women T20 WC: Captain\u2019s Day in Cape Town, WATCH Harmanpreet Kaur, Meg Lanning, Heather Knight pose with T20 World Cup Trophy as heat up fixtures kick off \u2013 Check out<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n<p><strong>Follow InsideSport on GOOGLE NEWS \/ Follow Women\u2019s T20 World Cup 2023 updates with <a href=\"https:\/\/www.insidesport.in\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">InsideSport.IN.\u00a0<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n<p><h3 class=\"jp-relatedposts-headline\"><em>Related<\/em><\/h3>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<p><script async src=\"\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><br \/>\n<br \/>[ad_2]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>[ad_1] ICC Women T20 WC:\u00a0Cape Town\u2019s Table Mountain was the backdrop for the ICC Women\u2019s T20 World Cup Captains\u2019 Day, setting the tone\u2026 ICC Women T20 WC:\u00a0Cape Town\u2019s Table Mountain was the backdrop for the ICC Women\u2019s T20 World Cup Captains\u2019 Day, setting the tone for an thrilling month of fast-paced and high-energy cricket because [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":60923,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[50],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-60921","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-sports"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/showbizztoday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/60921","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/showbizztoday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/showbizztoday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/showbizztoday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/showbizztoday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=60921"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/showbizztoday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/60921\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/showbizztoday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/60923"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/showbizztoday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=60921"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/showbizztoday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=60921"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/showbizztoday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=60921"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}