{"id":406400,"date":"2026-05-01T08:21:08","date_gmt":"2026-05-01T08:21:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/406400\/"},"modified":"2026-05-01T08:21:08","modified_gmt":"2026-05-01T08:21:08","slug":"new-zealand-dealt-injury-blow-ahead-of-key-wtc-tour-icc-world-test-championship","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/406400\/","title":{"rendered":"New Zealand dealt injury blow ahead of key WTC tour | ICC World Test Championship"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>With New Zealand taking on Ireland in a four-day one-off Test on May 27, followed by a three match <a href=\"https:\/\/www.icc-cricket.com\/tournaments\/world-test-championship\/standings\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">World Test Championship<\/a> series against England starting June 4 at Lord\u2019s. The injury rules out Santner from the Test against Ireland as well as the Kiwis\u2019 first Test against England, with a call on his fitness for the remainder of the series to be taken closer to time.<\/p>\n<p>Santner\u2019s absence will be a big one, considering his prowess with bat and ball. He has been a crucial part of New Zealand\u2019s transition in white-ball cricket as under his stewardship, the Blackcaps have made the finals of the ICC Men\u2019s T20 World Cup earlier this year, as well as the ICC Men\u2019s Champions Trophy held last year in Pakistan and Dubai.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"With New Zealand taking on Ireland in a four-day one-off Test on May 27, followed by a three&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":406401,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[41840,41838,41844,41854,41850,41853,41851,41836,41852,41849,41855,41861,41860,41841,41835,41859,41843,41842,41837,41847,41848,111,43,139,69,41857,41856,41858,41846,41839,41845],"class_list":["post-406400","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-new-zealand","tag-cricket-breaking-news","tag-cricket-headlines-today","tag-cricket-live-score","tag-cricket-match-highlights-today","tag-cricket-match-live-streaming-score","tag-cricket-match-result-today","tag-cricket-match-today-live","tag-cricket-news","tag-cricket-results-today","tag-cricket-scorecard-live","tag-cricket-series-updates","tag-cricket-world-cup-live-score","tag-cricket-world-cup-news","tag-cricket-world-news","tag-icc","tag-icc-cricket-updates","tag-international-cricket-live-score","tag-international-cricket-news","tag-latest-cricket-news","tag-latest-cricket-scores","tag-live-cricket-match-update","tag-new-zealand","tag-news","tag-newzealand","tag-nz","tag-odi-cricket-live-score","tag-t20-cricket-live-score","tag-test-cricket-live-score","tag-today-cricket-live-score","tag-today-cricket-news-update","tag-todays-cricket-match-score"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/406400","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=406400"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/406400\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/406401"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=406400"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=406400"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=406400"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}