{"id":35728,"date":"2018-06-30T11:50:35","date_gmt":"2018-06-30T11:50:35","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/punjabnews24.com\/?p=35728"},"modified":"2018-06-30T11:50:35","modified_gmt":"2018-06-30T11:50:35","slug":"harmanpreet-kaur-becomes-second-indian-pick-in-kia-super-league","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blastingskyhawk.com\/english\/harmanpreet-kaur-becomes-second-indian-pick-in-kia-super-league\/","title":{"rendered":"Harmanpreet Kaur becomes second Indian pick in Kia Super League"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>India\u2019s T20 International skipper Harmanpreet Kaur on Friday became the second Indian after her deputy Smriti Mandhana to be signed by a Kia Super League club.<\/p>\n<p>Harmanpreet will play for Lancashire Thunder in the 2018 season of the league, the club announced on Friday.<\/p>\n<p>Earlier this month, Smriti was snapped up by defending champions Western Storm.<\/p>\n<p>Harmanpreet, who became the first Indian player to sign a Big Bash League contract, was slated to play for the Surrey Stars in last year\u2019s competition but had to miss out because of a shoulder injury sustained at the 2017 World Cup.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI am so pleased to sign for Lancashire Thunder ahead of the 2018 Kia Super League,\u201d Harmanpreet said.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI have followed the KSL for a while and I can\u2019t wait to finally play in the competition, especially at a stadium like Old Trafford. I have fond memories of playing in England following last summer\u2019s ICC Women\u2019s World Cup, during which I scored my highest ever international score,\u201d she added.<\/p>\n<p>Harmanpreet, 29, is expected to leave for England in mid-July to participate in the tournament that is scheduled to run from July 22 to August 27.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>India\u2019s T20 International skipper Harmanpreet Kaur on Friday became the second Indian after her deputy Smriti Mandhana to be signed by a Kia [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":35729,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[122],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-35728","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\/35728","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=35728"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/blastingskyhawk.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/35728\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":35730,"href":"https:\/\/blastingskyhawk.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/35728\/revisions\/35730"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blastingskyhawk.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/35729"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blastingskyhawk.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=35728"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blastingskyhawk.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=35728"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blastingskyhawk.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=35728"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}