{"id":847097,"date":"2026-08-07T18:56:09","date_gmt":"2026-08-07T18:56:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/847097\/"},"modified":"2026-08-07T18:56:09","modified_gmt":"2026-08-07T18:56:09","slug":"emilio-gay-england-opener-retires-hurt-with-shoulder-issue-in-durham-game","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/847097\/","title":{"rendered":"Emilio Gay: England opener retires hurt with shoulder issue in Durham game"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">England opener Emilio Gay has suffered a shoulder injury while batting for Durham in <a href=\"https:\/\/www.bbc.com\/sport\/cricket\/scorecard\/e-233637\" class=\"ssrcss-18834jl-InlineLink e1kn3p7n0\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">their One-Day Cup match with Middlesex.<\/a><\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Gay had been feeling his right shoulder but after playing an on-drive off Toby Roland-Jones, he called for the physio.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">After a few minutes of treatment he left the field, retiring hurt on eight and his county have said that he will be assessed over the weekend.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Without a contract in The Hundred, the 26-year-old has played in five of Durham&#8217;s matches in this competition.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Gay has been named in <a href=\"https:\/\/www.bbc.com\/sport\/cricket\/articles\/crl7911zk40o\" class=\"ssrcss-18834jl-InlineLink e1kn3p7n0\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">an enlarged 16-man England squad <\/a>for the first two Tests against Pakistan later this month.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">The first match of the three-Test series begins at Headingley on 19 August.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"England opener Emilio Gay has suffered a shoulder injury while batting for Durham in their One-Day Cup match&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":847098,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[564],"tags":[64,63,740,85],"class_list":["post-847097","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\/847097","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=847097"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/847097\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/847098"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=847097"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=847097"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=847097"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}