{"id":100543,"date":"2025-08-29T10:19:07","date_gmt":"2025-08-29T10:19:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/100543\/"},"modified":"2025-08-29T10:19:07","modified_gmt":"2025-08-29T10:19:07","slug":"zimbabwe-skipper-ruled-out-of-sri-lanka-series","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/100543\/","title":{"rendered":"Zimbabwe skipper ruled out of Sri Lanka series"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The contest marks Zimbabwe\u2019s return to ODI cricket following their recent home assignments, where they hosted South Africa <a href=\"https:\/\/www.icc-cricket.com\/news\/zimbabwe-reveal-odi-squad-for-sri-lanka-series\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">and New Zealand<\/a> for two Test matches each, along with a T20I tri-series.<\/p>\n<p>This is also the comeback series for experienced batter Brendon Taylor, who returns to international cricket after nearly four years, having last represented Zimbabwe in September 2021 against Ireland.<\/p>\n<p>The first ODI is scheduled today (August 29), followed by the second ODI on August 31. The two sides will then shift focus to a three-match T20I series.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The contest marks Zimbabwe\u2019s return to ODI cricket following their recent home assignments, where they hosted South Africa&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":100544,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[34],"tags":[7529,49110,1721,7530,50,101,56,54,55],"class_list":["post-100543","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-cricket","tag-app-stream","tag-craig-ervine-08-19-1985","tag-cricket","tag-highlighted-news","tag-news","tag-sports","tag-uk","tag-united-kingdom","tag-unitedkingdom"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/100543","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=100543"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/100543\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/100544"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=100543"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=100543"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=100543"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}