{"id":32441,"date":"2025-07-30T12:42:14","date_gmt":"2025-07-30T12:42:14","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/32441\/"},"modified":"2025-07-30T12:42:14","modified_gmt":"2025-07-30T12:42:14","slug":"cricket-injured-stokes-ruled-out-of-final-test-v-india-archer-rested","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/32441\/","title":{"rendered":"Cricket-Injured Stokes ruled out of final test v India, Archer rested"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"border-b-[.1rem] pb-1\">Posted By Global Banking and Finance Review<\/p>\n<p>Posted on July 30, 2025<\/p>\n<p>LONDON (Reuters) -England captain Ben Stokes will miss the fifth and final test against India at the Oval with a shoulder injury, the England and Wales Cricket Board (ECB) said on the eve of the match beginning on Thursday.<\/p>\n<p>Stokes was player of the match in the drawn fourth test in Manchester where the all-rounder smashed 141 and claimed six wickets with the ball.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Captain Ben Stokes is unavailable due to a right shoulder injury,&#8221; the ECB said in a statement on Wednesday.<\/p>\n<p>In his absence, Ollie Pope will lead England, who are 2-1 ahead in the enthralling five-test series.<\/p>\n<p>England also rested Archer, who played back-to-back tests at Lord&#8217;s and Old Trafford in what is the injury-prone pacer&#8217;s first test series in four years.<\/p>\n<p>Pacer Brydon Carse and spinner Liam Dawson were dropped as England included the pace trio of Gus Atkinson, Jamie Overton and Josh Tongue.<\/p>\n<p>Jacob Bethell was recalled to replace Stokes at number six in the batting order.<\/p>\n<p>England: \u2060Zak Crawley, \u2060Ben Duckett, \u2060Ollie Pope (captain), \u2060Joe Root, \u2060Harry Brook, \u2060Jacob Bethell, \u2060Jamie Smith (wicketkeeper), \u2060Chris Woakes, \u2060Gus Atkinson, \u2060Jamie Overton, \u2060Josh Tongue<\/p>\n<p> (Reporting by Amlan Chakraborty in New Delhi; editing by Christian Radnedge)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Posted By Global Banking and Finance Review Posted on July 30, 2025 LONDON (Reuters) -England captain Ben Stokes&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":32442,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[564],"tags":[64,63,740,85],"class_list":["post-32441","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-cricket","tag-au","tag-australia","tag-cricket","tag-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/32441","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=32441"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/32441\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/32442"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=32441"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=32441"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=32441"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}