{"id":660218,"date":"2026-05-09T17:25:07","date_gmt":"2026-05-09T17:25:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/660218\/"},"modified":"2026-05-09T17:25:07","modified_gmt":"2026-05-09T17:25:07","slug":"england-captain-ben-stokes-takes-2-wickets-and-completes-20-overs-for-durham-on-injury-comeback","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/660218\/","title":{"rendered":"England captain Ben Stokes takes 2 wickets and completes 20 overs for Durham on injury comeback"},"content":{"rendered":"<p data-apitype=\"text\" data-contentid=\"2RNACCYMWNDHXAL2PQGMXP5URI\" data-el=\"text\" class=\"wpds-c-heFNVF wpds-c-heFNVF-iPJLV-css overrideStyles font-copy\" dir=\"null\">WORCESTER, England \u2014 England captain Ben Stokes took two wickets and completed 20 overs for Durham on Saturday in a successful comeback from <a href=\"https:\/\/apnews.com\/article\/ben-stokes-injured-cheekbone-surgery-5ac60756da0ec739ae47ff312445987a\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">breaking a cheekbone<\/a> in February.<\/p>\n<p data-apitype=\"text\" data-contentid=\"AHNZSIY3IJHLVKDNCXOWMIKPLE\" data-el=\"text\" class=\"wpds-c-heFNVF wpds-c-heFNVF-iPJLV-css overrideStyles font-copy\" dir=\"null\">Stokes finished with economical figures of 2-54 against Worcestershire in a second-tier county championship game. It was his first outing in any cricket format since the fifth and final Ashes test against Australia in early January.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"WORCESTER, England \u2014 England captain Ben Stokes took two wickets and completed 20 overs for Durham on Saturday&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":660219,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[564],"tags":[64,63,319005,740,85],"class_list":["post-660218","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-cricket","tag-au","tag-australia","tag-cri-england-stokes","tag-cricket","tag-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/660218","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=660218"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/660218\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/660219"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=660218"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=660218"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=660218"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}