{"id":677998,"date":"2026-01-06T16:01:10","date_gmt":"2026-01-06T16:01:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/677998\/"},"modified":"2026-01-06T16:01:10","modified_gmt":"2026-01-06T16:01:10","slug":"its-the-strongest-squad-that-weve-ever-had-gardner-optimistic-of-giants-chances","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/677998\/","title":{"rendered":"&#8216;It&#8217;s the strongest squad that we&#8217;ve ever had&#8217;: Gardner optimistic of Giants&#8217; chances"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>&#8220;Certainly we would have loved a more experienced Indian batter, but they&#8217;re all aligned to other teams and there&#8217;s plenty of youth within our side, and I guess it&#8217;s about exposing them to the highest level as well, knowing that they&#8217;ve got so much experience around them. So yes, we might not have the likes of Harman or Smriti within our side, but we have to win with who we&#8217;ve got, and I think that we&#8217;ve got a fantastic squad this year, so there&#8217;s no reason that we can&#8217;t win.&#8221;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"&#8220;Certainly we would have loved a more experienced Indian batter, but they&#8217;re all aligned to other teams and&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":677999,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4101],"tags":[184919,1406,205923,205924,79,16,15,198932],"class_list":{"0":"post-677998","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-cricket","8":"tag-ashleigh-gardner","9":"tag-cricket","10":"tag-gujarat-giants-women","11":"tag-michael-klinger","12":"tag-sports","13":"tag-uk","14":"tag-united-kingdom","15":"tag-womens-premier-league-2026"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@uk\/115848995358694095","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/677998","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=677998"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/677998\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/677999"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=677998"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=677998"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=677998"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}