{"id":352864,"date":"2023-12-10T01:12:04","date_gmt":"2023-12-10T02:12:04","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/sportinfo.pro\/?p=352864"},"modified":"2023-12-10T03:02:11","modified_gmt":"2023-12-10T03:02:11","slug":"zampa-reveals-brutal-reality-of-world-cup-win","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sportinfo.pro\/?p=352864","title":{"rendered":"Zampa reveals brutal reality of World Cup win"},"content":{"rendered":"

Adam Zampa<\/a> admits a sharp turnaround from the Cricket World Cup<\/a> into the Australian summer season is less than ideal on his body.<\/p>\n

Illness and injury hampered the 31-year-old early on in the World Cup but he rebounded as Australia's sole specialist spinner with three straight four-wicket efforts.<\/p>\n

He wound up with a tournament-high, record-equalling 23 wickets for a spinner, tying the mark set by Sri Lanka's Muttiah Muralitharan in 2007.<\/p>\n

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It's been less than three weeks since Australia won the tournament, celebrated, and returned Down Under.<\/p>\n

\"Adam<\/p>\n

Several players from that winning squad have funnelled back into their respective Big Bash teams, including Zampa who took two wickets for the Melbourne Renegades on Friday.<\/p>\n

Speaking post-match, the leg-spinner said he's still feeling the effects of the tournament.<\/p>\n

A reduced BBL13 schedule is something of a reprieve, however. The Renegades face the Perth Scorchers on Sunday before an 11-day break.<\/p>\n

The regular season has been reduced to 10 games per side. This year's Big Bash League is down from 61 regular season matches to 44.<\/p>\n

"Body's probably not in an ideal situation but feeling much better than it was at the start of the World Cup," said Zampa.\u00a0<\/p>\n

"We've got a game in two day's time then a little bit of a break so there's periods now to try and get away from it, get the body good and just get away from cricket because it's been a big few months. It's taken its toll, that's for sure."<\/p>\n

\"Adam<\/p>\n

Despite a quick turnaround from the World Cup into the home summer, Zampa said he's still basking in the glory of his team's win.<\/p>\n

It's a surreal achievement given he never thought he'd last as long in the national team.<\/p>\n

"I've been home for a week and still waking up most mornings pinching myself," he said.\u00a0<\/p>\n

"Personally, I can't believe I'm at this stage of my career. I always felt like I was scrapping just to stay in the Australian team. Never really thought I'd play as much as I have for Australia.<\/p>\n

"You are grateful to be there for a lot of it, never really think about winning World Cups then you get to the stage in the last couple of years where it's all you want.\u00a0<\/p>\n

"To be sitting here now, to have won a T20 World Cup two years ago and now the one-day World Cup, it means a lot to me."<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Adam Zampa admits a sharp turnaround from the Cricket World Cup into the Australian summer season is less than ideal on his body. Illness and […]<\/a><\/p>\n<\/div>","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":352866,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[1],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/sportinfo.pro\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/352864"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/sportinfo.pro\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/sportinfo.pro\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sportinfo.pro\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sportinfo.pro\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=352864"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/sportinfo.pro\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/352864\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":352869,"href":"https:\/\/sportinfo.pro\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/352864\/revisions\/352869"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sportinfo.pro\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/352866"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sportinfo.pro\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=352864"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sportinfo.pro\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=352864"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sportinfo.pro\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=352864"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}