{"id":69972,"date":"2025-08-15T10:24:14","date_gmt":"2025-08-15T10:24:14","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/69972\/"},"modified":"2025-08-15T10:24:14","modified_gmt":"2025-08-15T10:24:14","slug":"more-change-in-new-zealand-as-black-caps-selector-departs","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/69972\/","title":{"rendered":"More change in New Zealand as Black Caps selector departs"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>During his tenure Wells saw <a href=\"https:\/\/www.icc-cricket.com\/tournaments\/world-test-championship\/news\/joy-for-new-zealand-after-historic-series-win-over-india\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">New Zealand register a historic 3-0 Test triumph over India away from home<\/a> and <a href=\"https:\/\/www.icc-cricket.com\/tournaments\/champions-trophy-2025\/news\/new-zealand-smash-champions-trophy-record-in-semi-final-encounter-against-south-africa\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">reach the final of the ICC Champions Trophy earlier this year,<\/a> but the 41-year-old has decided to stand down from his position to concentrate on his own work commitments.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cServing as selection manager for the Black Caps over the past two years has been a tremendous privilege,\u201d Wells said.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI\u2019m deeply grateful to NZC for the opportunity to contribute to the national side.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIt\u2019s been an honour to work alongside the dedicated coaches, talented players, and committed support staff around New Zealand.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWhile I\u2019ve thoroughly enjoyed my time in the role, I\u2019ve made the difficult decision to step down in order to prioritise my personal and professional commitments outside of cricket.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI remain a proud supporter of the Black Caps and will continue to cheer the team on as they build toward future success.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"During his tenure Wells saw New Zealand register a historic 3-0 Test triumph over India away from home&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":69973,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[564],"tags":[5101,64,63,740,5103,44,85],"class_list":["post-69972","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\/69972","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=69972"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/69972\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/69973"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=69972"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=69972"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=69972"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}