{"id":30388,"date":"2025-02-18T09:00:53","date_gmt":"2025-02-18T00:00:53","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/cricket.or.jp\/?p=30388"},"modified":"2025-03-28T10:23:52","modified_gmt":"2025-03-28T01:23:52","slug":"%e5%a5%b3%e5%ad%90%e6%97%a5%e6%9c%ac%e3%83%97%e3%83%ac%e3%83%9f%e3%82%a2%e3%83%aa%e3%83%bc%e3%82%b0%e3%81%ab%e3%82%bf%e3%82%a4%e3%82%bf%e3%83%b3%e3%82%ba%e5%8f%82%e5%8a%a0","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/cricket.or.jp\/en\/%e5%a5%b3%e5%ad%90%e6%97%a5%e6%9c%ac%e3%83%97%e3%83%ac%e3%83%9f%e3%82%a2%e3%83%aa%e3%83%bc%e3%82%b0%e3%81%ab%e3%82%bf%e3%82%a4%e3%82%bf%e3%83%b3%e3%82%ba%e5%8f%82%e5%8a%a0\/","title":{"rendered":"Titans Join Revamped Women\u2019s Japan Premier League"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-medium wp-image-28156\" src=\"https:\/\/cricket.or.jp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/05\/2024-05-10-Announcement-WJPL-web-300x214.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"214\" srcset=\"https:\/\/cricket.or.jp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/05\/2024-05-10-Announcement-WJPL-web-300x214.png 300w, https:\/\/cricket.or.jp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/05\/2024-05-10-Announcement-WJPL-web-1024x731.png 1024w, https:\/\/cricket.or.jp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/05\/2024-05-10-Announcement-WJPL-web-768x548.png 768w, https:\/\/cricket.or.jp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/05\/2024-05-10-Announcement-WJPL-web.png 1350w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">The Women\u2019s Japan Premier League (WJPL) will expand in 2025, moving away from the two-team structure to one with international franchise teams participating.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">We are thrilled to confirm that Titans Cricket, South Africa, are the first to commit to joining the competition.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Titans, whose <\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/cricket.or.jp\/en\/archives\/23890\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">partnership with the JCA<\/span><\/a><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> began in 2023, have sent players for each of the first two editions of the WJPL.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">For 2025 they will bring four players, plus a team manager, and will enter the competition as \u201cTitans Ladies\u201d.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Titans Cricket CEO, Dr Jacques Faul said: <\/span><i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">&#8220;Titans Cricket has always been committed to globalizing our brand and growing the game beyond borders. Our partnership with the Japan Cricket Association is an exciting step in that direction,<\/span><\/i> <i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">and we take great pride in the opportunities it has created for our women&#8217;s players, as well as the Japan women&#8217;s players who have travelled to South Africa.<\/span><\/i><\/p>\n<p><i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">He added, \u201cAs we look forward to the 2025 Women\u2019s Japan Premier League, this collaboration represents an incredible opportunity to drive change and growth in women\u2019s cricket. We are excited about the impact Titans and Japan Cricket can make together in elevating the women&#8217;s game on a global scale.&#8221;<\/span><\/i><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Head of Cricket Operations at Japan Cricket, Alan Curr said: \u201cThe partnership with Titans Cricket continues to provide amazing opportunities for players from both parties and we are delighted that they are joining us on this next step of the WJPL. We believe this can help raise the level of the competition and take it to a whole new audience.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-medium wp-image-23891\" src=\"https:\/\/cricket.or.jp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/07\/IMG_1936-300x225.jpeg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"225\" srcset=\"https:\/\/cricket.or.jp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/07\/IMG_1936-300x225.jpeg 300w, https:\/\/cricket.or.jp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/07\/IMG_1936-1024x768.jpeg 1024w, https:\/\/cricket.or.jp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/07\/IMG_1936-768x576.jpeg 768w, https:\/\/cricket.or.jp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/07\/IMG_1936-1536x1152.jpeg 1536w, https:\/\/cricket.or.jp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/07\/IMG_1936-2048x1536.jpeg 2048w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Since the partnership began in 2023, six Japanese female players have travelled to Pretoria for the \u201cGlobal Cricket Tournament\u201d hosted by the Titans, while five Titans Ladies have visited Japan for the WJPL.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">The full structure, teams and players\u00a0 involved in the 2025 WJPL will be announced in due course.<\/span><\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Women\u2019s Japan Premier League (WJPL) will expand in 2025, moving away from the two-team structure to one with international franchise teams participating.\u00a0 We are thrilled to confirm that Titans&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":19,"featured_media":30389,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-30388","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news-and-articles"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/cricket.or.jp\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/30388","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/cricket.or.jp\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/cricket.or.jp\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cricket.or.jp\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/19"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cricket.or.jp\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=30388"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/cricket.or.jp\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/30388\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":30675,"href":"https:\/\/cricket.or.jp\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/30388\/revisions\/30675"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cricket.or.jp\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/30389"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/cricket.or.jp\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=30388"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cricket.or.jp\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=30388"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cricket.or.jp\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=30388"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}