{"id":71578,"date":"2025-10-30T11:35:54","date_gmt":"2025-10-30T11:35:54","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/newsfortnite.com\/index.php\/2025\/10\/30\/ind-vs-aus-tragic-why-are-players-wearing-black-armbands\/"},"modified":"2025-10-30T11:35:54","modified_gmt":"2025-10-30T11:35:54","slug":"ind-vs-aus-tragic-why-are-players-wearing-black-armbands","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/newsfortnite.com\/index.php\/2025\/10\/30\/ind-vs-aus-tragic-why-are-players-wearing-black-armbands\/","title":{"rendered":"IND vs AUS: Tragic! Why are players wearing black armbands?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Australia won the toss and chose to bat first in the Women&#8217;s World Cup semifinal against India. Both teams wore black armbands in memory of 17-year-old Ben Austin, who tragically died after being hit by a cricket ball. This gesture highlighted the unity and empathy between the cricketing nations beyond the competition.<\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Australia won the toss and chose to bat first in the Women&#8217;s World Cup semifinal against India. Both teams wore black armbands in memory of 17-year-old Ben Austin, who tragically died after being hit by a cricket ball. This gesture highlighted the unity and empathy between the cricketing nations beyond the competition.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":0,"featured_media":71579,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_sitemap_exclude":false,"_sitemap_priority":"","_sitemap_frequency":"","neve_meta_sidebar":"","neve_meta_container":"","neve_meta_enable_content_width":"","neve_meta_content_width":0,"neve_meta_title_alignment":"","neve_meta_author_avatar":"","neve_post_elements_order":"","neve_meta_disable_header":"","neve_meta_disable_footer":"","neve_meta_disable_title":"","_themeisle_gutenberg_block_has_review":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/newsfortnite.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/71578"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/newsfortnite.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/newsfortnite.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newsfortnite.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=71578"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/newsfortnite.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/71578\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newsfortnite.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/71579"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/newsfortnite.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=71578"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newsfortnite.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=71578"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newsfortnite.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=71578"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}