{"id":32930,"date":"2025-07-30T17:13:10","date_gmt":"2025-07-30T17:13:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/32930\/"},"modified":"2025-07-30T17:13:10","modified_gmt":"2025-07-30T17:13:10","slug":"taylor-returns-to-zimbabwe-squad-for-second-new-zealand-test","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/32930\/","title":{"rendered":"Taylor returns to Zimbabwe squad for second New Zealand Test"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Zimbabwe squad: Craig Ervine (Captain), Brian Bennett, Tanaka Chivanga, Ben Curran, Trevor Gwandu, Roy Kaia, Tanunurwa Makoni, Clive Madande, Vincent Masekesa, Wellington Masakadza, Blessing Muzarabani, Newman Nyamhuri, Sikandar Raza, Tafadzwa Tsiga, Nicholas Welch, Sean Williams, Brendan Taylor.<\/p>\n<p>Reflecting on his own journey back into the Zimbabwe squad, Taylor said, &#8220;The last year and a half has certainly been dedicated to my return.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;I\u2019ve put in an immense amount of work \u2013 from fitness to the technical side to diet \u2013 and I\u2019m feeling a lot leaner, fitter and mentally stronger.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;I\u2019ve thoroughly enjoyed this journey on my own, just rebuilding the blocks, and I feel in a wonderful space.&#8221;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Zimbabwe squad: Craig Ervine (Captain), Brian Bennett, Tanaka Chivanga, Ben Curran, Trevor Gwandu, Roy Kaia, Tanunurwa Makoni, Clive&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":32931,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[564],"tags":[5101,64,63,740,5103,44,85],"class_list":["post-32930","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-cricket","tag-app-stream","tag-au","tag-australia","tag-cricket","tag-highlighted-news","tag-news","tag-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/32930","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=32930"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/32930\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/32931"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=32930"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=32930"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=32930"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}