{"id":854693,"date":"2026-08-14T06:56:10","date_gmt":"2026-08-14T06:56:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/854693\/"},"modified":"2026-08-14T06:56:10","modified_gmt":"2026-08-14T06:56:10","slug":"cricket-reader-qa-ask-ali-martin-your-questions-ahead-of-england-v-pakistan-sport","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/854693\/","title":{"rendered":"Cricket reader Q&#038;A: ask Ali Martin your questions ahead of England v Pakistan | Sport"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Key events<\/p>\n<p>Welcome to the Conversation<\/p>\n<p class=\"dcr-1s160rg\">Meet the new boss \u2026 same as the old boss? Next week Joe Root returns as England captain under new coach Stephen Fleming as the men\u2019s team look to turn their summer around after defeat to New Zealand earlier in the summer as <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/sport\/ben-stokes\" data-link-name=\"in body link\" data-component=\"auto-linked-tag\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Ben Stokes<\/a> dramatically announced his retirement and before Brendon McCullum was relieved of his duties.<\/p>\n<p class=\"dcr-1s160rg\">Ali Martin will be here at 2pm BST on Friday 14 August to discuss the new shape of the team. Post any questions you might have below about England, the men and women\u2019s Hundred season or anything else you\u2019d like to ask our cricket correspondent. <\/p>\n<p>Ask a question: log in or sign up <a href=\"https:\/\/profile.theguardian.com\/signin\" data-link-name=\"in body link\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">here<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Deja Root. England\u2019s new\/old captain  Photograph: Andrew Boyers\/Action Images\/Reuters<a href=\"mailto:?subject=Cricket reader Q&amp;A: ask Ali Martin your questions ahead of England v Pakistan &amp;body=https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/sport\/live\/2026\/aug\/14\/cricket-reader-qa-ask-ali-martin-your-questions-ahead-of-england-v-pakistan?CMP=share_btn_url&amp;page=with%3Ablock-6a75d21b8f0821d9ede5c779#block-6a75d21b8f0821d9ede5c779\" type=\"button\" class=\"dcr-10ju04u\">Share<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Key events Welcome to the Conversation Meet the new boss \u2026 same as the old boss? Next week&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":854694,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[564],"tags":[64,63,740,85],"class_list":["post-854693","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\/854693","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=854693"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/854693\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/854694"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=854693"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=854693"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=854693"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}