{"id":34230,"date":"2018-06-15T11:55:59","date_gmt":"2018-06-15T11:55:59","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/punjabnews24.com\/?p=34230"},"modified":"2018-06-15T11:55:59","modified_gmt":"2018-06-15T11:55:59","slug":"smriti-mandhana-set-to-become-first-indian-to-play-in-englands-kia-t20-super-league","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blastingskyhawk.com\/english\/smriti-mandhana-set-to-become-first-indian-to-play-in-englands-kia-t20-super-league\/","title":{"rendered":"Smriti Mandhana set to become first Indian to play in England&#8217;s Kia T20 Super League"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>Indian women&#8217;s cricket team opener, Smriti Mandhana, will become the first player from her country to appear in England&#8217;s Kia Super T20 League beginning July 22.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Smriti was signed by Western Storm ahead of the upcoming edition that features six teams.<\/p>\n<p>The 21-year-old has scored over 826 runs with a highest score of 76 in the 40 T20 Internationals she has played so far.<\/p>\n<p>Mandhana has also played for Brisbane Heat in the Women&#8217;s Big Bash League in Australia.<\/p>\n<p>Last month, she captained the IPL Trailblazers in the one-off exhibition game organised by the BCCI.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;We are really excited that Smriti will be joining us. She is one of the brightest young talents in the game at the moment. Although she is still young, she has a great deal of experience of the game at the highest level and we believe that she will prove to be an excellent signing,&#8221; said Western Storm coach Trevor Griffin.<\/p>\n<!-- AddThis Advanced Settings generic via filter on the_content --><!-- AddThis Share Buttons generic via filter on the_content -->","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Indian women&#8217;s cricket team opener, Smriti Mandhana, will become the first player from her country to appear in England&#8217;s Kia Super T20 League beginning July 22. Smriti was signed by Western Storm ahead of the upcoming edition that features six teams. The 21-year-old has scored over 826 runs with a highest score of 76 in [&hellip;]<!-- AddThis Advanced Settings generic via filter on get_the_excerpt --><!-- AddThis Share Buttons generic via filter on get_the_excerpt --><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":34231,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"inline_featured_image":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[122],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-34230","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blastingskyhawk.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/34230","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blastingskyhawk.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blastingskyhawk.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blastingskyhawk.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blastingskyhawk.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=34230"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/blastingskyhawk.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/34230\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":34232,"href":"https:\/\/blastingskyhawk.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/34230\/revisions\/34232"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blastingskyhawk.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/34231"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blastingskyhawk.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=34230"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blastingskyhawk.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=34230"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blastingskyhawk.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=34230"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}