{"id":20631,"date":"2024-06-18T16:32:19","date_gmt":"2024-06-18T16:32:19","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/ncnguyana.com\/2023\/?p=20631"},"modified":"2024-06-18T16:33:12","modified_gmt":"2024-06-18T16:33:12","slug":"west-indies-t20-captain-rovman-powell-optimistic-ahead-of-clash-with-new-zealand","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ncnguyana.com\/2023\/west-indies-t20-captain-rovman-powell-optimistic-ahead-of-clash-with-new-zealand\/","title":{"rendered":"West Indies T20 Captain Rovman Powell Optimistic Ahead of Clash with New Zealand"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"fb-root\"><\/div>\n\n<p>West Indies T20 captain Rovman Powell is confident as his team prepares to face New Zealand in their upcoming ICC World Cup group stage match in Tarouba.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Having secured a convincing 134-run victory over Uganda, one of the largest margins in tournament history, the Windies are riding high. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>In contrast, New Zealand&#8217;s campaign suffered a setback with a heavy defeat, scoring only 75 runs in their pursuit of Afghanistan&#8217;s 160 last Friday.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Powell expressed optimism about the team&#8217;s morale and readiness, despite some skepticism about their capabilities. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>He emphasized their recent strong performances as proof of their potential.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Looking ahead, Powell stressed the team&#8217;s focus on taking each match seriously and delivering entertaining cricket for their fans.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The match scheduled for Wednesday marks the first T20 World Cup game at the Brian Lara Stadium, inaugurated in 2017. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>With Afghanistan leading Group C with an impressive Net Run Rate of 5.225 and the Windies following closely with two consecutive wins, the stage is set for an exciting encounter. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Meanwhile, New Zealand faces the challenge of potentially exiting the tournament early.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>West Indies T20 captain Rovman Powell is confident as his team prepares to face New Zealand in their upcoming ICC World Cup group stage match in Tarouba. Having secured a&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":20632,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[350,352],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-20631","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news","category-sports"],"amp_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/ncnguyana.com\/2023\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20631","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/ncnguyana.com\/2023\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/ncnguyana.com\/2023\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ncnguyana.com\/2023\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ncnguyana.com\/2023\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=20631"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/ncnguyana.com\/2023\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20631\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":20633,"href":"https:\/\/ncnguyana.com\/2023\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20631\/revisions\/20633"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ncnguyana.com\/2023\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/20632"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/ncnguyana.com\/2023\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=20631"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ncnguyana.com\/2023\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=20631"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ncnguyana.com\/2023\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=20631"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}