{"id":277197,"date":"2026-02-10T17:02:07","date_gmt":"2026-02-10T17:02:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/277197\/"},"modified":"2026-02-10T17:02:07","modified_gmt":"2026-02-10T17:02:07","slug":"injury-forces-change-in-new-zealands-t20-world-cup-squad-icc-mens-t20-world-cup-2026","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/277197\/","title":{"rendered":"Injury forces change in New Zealand&#8217;s T20 World Cup squad | ICC Men&#8217;s T20 World Cup, 2026"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>New Zealand have been forced to make a change to their squad during their <a href=\"https:\/\/www.icc-cricket.com\/tournaments\/mens-t20-world-cup-2026\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">ICC Men&#8217;s T20 World Cup 2026<\/a> campaign.<\/p>\n<p>The Event Technical Committee of the ICC Men\u2019s T20 World Cup 2026 have approved Cole McConchie as a travelling reserve in Michael Bracewell&#8217;s stead in the New Zealand squad.<\/p>\n<p>All-rounder Bracewell picked up an injury while carrying out support duties during match against Afghanistan in Chennai on February 8.<\/p>\n<p>New Zealand began their T20 World Cup campaign with a five-wicket win over Afghanistan. The Kiwis followed it up with another impressive win over the UAE.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"New Zealand have been forced to make a change to their squad during their ICC Men&#8217;s T20 World&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":277198,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[41840,41838,41836,41855,122208,41860,41841,41835,41859,122206,41842,41837,122211,111,43,139,69,122207,122209,41839,122210],"class_list":{"0":"post-277197","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-new-zealand","8":"tag-cricket-breaking-news","9":"tag-cricket-headlines-today","10":"tag-cricket-news","11":"tag-cricket-series-updates","12":"tag-cricket-world-cup-headlines","13":"tag-cricket-world-cup-news","14":"tag-cricket-world-news","15":"tag-icc","16":"tag-icc-cricket-updates","17":"tag-icc-mens-t20-world-cup-news","18":"tag-international-cricket-news","19":"tag-latest-cricket-news","20":"tag-latest-icc-announcements","21":"tag-new-zealand","22":"tag-news","23":"tag-newzealand","24":"tag-nz","25":"tag-t20-world-cup-news-updates","26":"tag-today-cricket-match-news","27":"tag-today-cricket-news-update","28":"tag-world-cup-cricket-articles"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/277197","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=277197"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/277197\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/277198"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=277197"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=277197"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=277197"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}