{"id":550165,"date":"2026-07-29T21:20:11","date_gmt":"2026-07-29T21:20:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/550165\/"},"modified":"2026-07-29T21:20:11","modified_gmt":"2026-07-29T21:20:11","slug":"cricket-stephen-fleming-set-to-take-over-england-test-side","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/550165\/","title":{"rendered":"Cricket: Stephen Fleming set to take over England Test side"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"[&amp;_em]:font-serif-text-italic [&amp;_cite]:font-serif-text-italic\">The England Test cricket side may be about to replace one New Zealand coach with another.<\/p>\n<p class=\"[&amp;_em]:font-serif-text-italic [&amp;_cite]:font-serif-text-italic\">Reports in England suggest that former Black Caps Test captain Stephen Fleming will be the new Test coach replacing Brendon McCullum who <a href=\"https:\/\/www.rnz.co.nz\/news\/sport\/706859\/cricket-of-course-i-m-gutted-brendon-mccullum-sacked-as-england-test-coach\" class=\"underline-brand-hover visited:text-foreground-secondary hover:visited:text-foreground-primary\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">was sacked earlier this month<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p class=\"[&amp;_em]:font-serif-text-italic [&amp;_cite]:font-serif-text-italic\">The Telegraph is reporting that Fleming will be in place for the series against South Africa later this year.<\/p>\n<p class=\"[&amp;_em]:font-serif-text-italic [&amp;_cite]:font-serif-text-italic\">It is unsure if officials would rush him into the job in time for England&#8217;s next series which is against Pakistan next month.<\/p>\n<p class=\"[&amp;_em]:font-serif-text-italic [&amp;_cite]:font-serif-text-italic\">McCullum played under Fleming in the Black Caps.<\/p>\n<p class=\"[&amp;_em]:font-serif-text-italic [&amp;_cite]:font-serif-text-italic\">McCullum remains England&#8217;s white ball coach and the pair would be required to work closely together.<\/p>\n<p class=\"[&amp;_em]:font-serif-text-italic [&amp;_cite]:font-serif-text-italic\">Other candidates mentioned once McCullum was sacked were Jonathon Trott, Tom Moody, Justin Langer and Andy Flower.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The England Test cricket side may be about to replace one New Zealand coach with another. Reports in&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":550166,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[42,43,40,38,41,39],"class_list":["post-550165","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-headlines","tag-headlines","tag-news","tag-top-news","tag-top-stories","tag-topnews","tag-topstories"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/550165","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=550165"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/550165\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/550166"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=550165"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=550165"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=550165"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}