{"id":492831,"date":"2025-10-12T05:43:10","date_gmt":"2025-10-12T05:43:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/492831\/"},"modified":"2025-10-12T05:43:10","modified_gmt":"2025-10-12T05:43:10","slug":"state-of-play-race-for-semi-finals-hots-up-at-world-cup-icc-womens-cricket-world-cup-2025","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/492831\/","title":{"rendered":"State of Play: Race for semi-finals hots up at World Cup | ICC Women&#8217;s Cricket World Cup, 2025"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>8. Pakistan \u2013 0 points, -1.887 NRR<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>The other winless team, Pakistan have lost games to Bangladesh, India and Australia. But their effort <a href=\"https:\/\/www.icc-cricket.com\/tournaments\/womens-cricket-worldcup-2025\/matches\/262194\/australia-vs-pakistan\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">against the favoured Aussies<\/a> was valiant, putting their batting lineup under real pressure in Colombo.<\/p>\n<p>As expected, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.icc-cricket.com\/tournaments\/womens-cricket-worldcup-2025\/teams\/1130\/players\/58242\/sidra-amin\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Sidra Amin<\/a> has been crucial to their fortunes with the bat, highlighted by an 81 against India, while they have had an equal spread of contributors with the ball.<\/p>\n<p>Pakistan will be hoping to put it all together and take down the unbeaten England when they meet in Colombo on Wednesday.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"8. Pakistan \u2013 0 points, -1.887 NRR The other winless team, Pakistan have lost games to Bangladesh, India&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":492832,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4101],"tags":[1406,145387,145385,56086,145400,145396,145399,145397,11096,145398,145395,145401,145407,145406,145388,2192,145405,145390,145389,30566,145393,145394,145403,79,145402,145404,145392,145386,145391,16,15],"class_list":{"0":"post-492831","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-cricket","8":"tag-cricket","9":"tag-cricket-breaking-news","10":"tag-cricket-headlines-today","11":"tag-cricket-live-score","12":"tag-cricket-match-highlights-today","13":"tag-cricket-match-live-streaming-score","14":"tag-cricket-match-result-today","15":"tag-cricket-match-today-live","16":"tag-cricket-news","17":"tag-cricket-results-today","18":"tag-cricket-scorecard-live","19":"tag-cricket-series-updates","20":"tag-cricket-world-cup-live-score","21":"tag-cricket-world-cup-news","22":"tag-cricket-world-news","23":"tag-icc","24":"tag-icc-cricket-updates","25":"tag-international-cricket-live-score","26":"tag-international-cricket-news","27":"tag-latest-cricket-news","28":"tag-latest-cricket-scores","29":"tag-live-cricket-match-update","30":"tag-odi-cricket-live-score","31":"tag-sports","32":"tag-t20-cricket-live-score","33":"tag-test-cricket-live-score","34":"tag-today-cricket-live-score","35":"tag-today-cricket-news-update","36":"tag-todays-cricket-match-score","37":"tag-uk","38":"tag-united-kingdom"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"","error":"Validation failed: Text character limit of 500 exceeded"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/492831","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=492831"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/492831\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/492832"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=492831"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=492831"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=492831"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}