{"id":837156,"date":"2026-08-01T05:29:10","date_gmt":"2026-08-01T05:29:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/837156\/"},"modified":"2026-08-01T05:29:10","modified_gmt":"2026-08-01T05:29:10","slug":"cricket-what-stephen-flemings-appointment-as-test-coach-means-for-england","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/837156\/","title":{"rendered":"Cricket: What Stephen Fleming&#8217;s appointment as test coach means for England"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>English cricket can&#8217;t get enough of New Zealand coaches.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Former Black Cap Stephen Fleming has been confirmed as the country&#8217;s new test mentor, replacing former teammate Brendon McCullum.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Cricket writer Cameron Ponsonby told Piney while they\u2019ve gotten used to having the big kind of celebrity personality of McCullum over the last few years, it seems as though everyone wants things to calm down a bit.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIt feels like an adult\u2019s been hired.\u201d\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>He says it helps that the two know each other, as it feels like the ex-girlfriend is still in the room, with McCullum coaching the white-ball squad. \u00a0<\/p>\n<p>LISTEN ABOVE\u00a0<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"English cricket can&#8217;t get enough of New Zealand coaches.\u00a0 Former Black Cap Stephen Fleming has been confirmed as&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":837157,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[564],"tags":[64,63,409415,409413,740,409412,409411,85,409414],"class_list":["post-837156","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-cricket","tag-au","tag-australia","tag-brendonmccullum","tag-cameronponsonby","tag-cricket","tag-englandcricket","tag-englishcricket","tag-sports","tag-stephenfleming"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/837156","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=837156"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/837156\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/837157"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=837156"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=837156"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=837156"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}