Shafali Verma narrowly missed a World Cup final century, scoring a brilliant 87 off 78 balls against South Africa. Her dismissal in the 28th over, after a lofted shot was caught, ended a stunning innings from the batter. Veteran spinner R. Ashwin’s tweet minutes before the wicket about her potential hundred led to humorous fan accusations of a ‘jinx’.<\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
Shafali Verma narrowly missed a World Cup final century, scoring a brilliant 87 off 78 balls against South Africa. Her dismissal in the 28th over, after a lofted shot was caught, ended a stunning innings from the batter. Veteran spinner R. Ashwin’s tweet minutes before the wicket about her potential hundred led to humorous fan… Read More »Ashwin’s post backfires: Cricketer hails Shafali; batter out for 87 minutes later!<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":0,"featured_media":72140,"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\/72139"}],"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=72139"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/newsfortnite.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/72139\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newsfortnite.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/72140"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/newsfortnite.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=72139"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newsfortnite.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=72139"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newsfortnite.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=72139"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}