{"id":550959,"date":"2026-03-19T17:04:16","date_gmt":"2026-03-19T17:04:16","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/550959\/"},"modified":"2026-03-19T17:04:16","modified_gmt":"2026-03-19T17:04:16","slug":"nat-sciver-brunt-england-captain-returns-from-training-camp-in-south-africa","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/550959\/","title":{"rendered":"Nat Sciver-Brunt: England captain returns from training camp in South Africa"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Captain Nat Sciver-Brunt has returned from England&#8217;s training camp in South Africa for family reasons.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Sciver-Brunt is not expected to return to Pretoria, where England are playing an intra-squad series as part of their build-up to a home T20 World Cup this summer.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">It is understood a member of Sciver-Brunt&#8217;s family is ill, though it is not her wife Katherine &#8211; the former England fast bowler &#8211; or their son Theo.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">England are training and playing five intra-squad matches in Pretoria in a rare gap in their schedule. They have not played since the World Cup in October.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">The camp was due to take place in Abu Dhabi and was moved to South Africa because of the ongoing conflict in the Middle East.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">England are playing five matches in Pretoria, the second of which takes place on Thursday.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">England are hosting New Zealand and India in white-ball series in the run-up to the T20 World Cup, which they begin against Sri Lanka at Edgbaston on 2 June.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Captain Nat Sciver-Brunt has returned from England&#8217;s training camp in South Africa for family reasons. Sciver-Brunt is not&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":550960,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[564],"tags":[64,63,740,85],"class_list":["post-550959","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\/550959","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=550959"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/550959\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/550960"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=550959"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=550959"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=550959"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}