{"id":272762,"date":"2025-11-20T02:53:08","date_gmt":"2025-11-20T02:53:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/272762\/"},"modified":"2025-11-20T02:53:08","modified_gmt":"2025-11-20T02:53:08","slug":"england-and-wales-cricket-board-ecb-18","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/272762\/","title":{"rendered":"England and Wales Cricket Board (ECB)"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>England Men U19s will face Pakistan, Scotland and hosts Zimbabwe in the group stages of the 2026 ICC U19 World Cup, set to take place in January and February.<\/p>\n<p>Hosted by Zimbabwe and Namibia, the tournament features four groups of four, with the top three from each group going through to the Super 6s stage.<\/p>\n<p>Should England finish in the top three of Group B, they would likely face South Africa, West Indies and Afghanistan in the Super 6s for a place in the semi-finals.<\/p>\n<p>The Young Lions begin their campaign against Pakistan on Friday 16 January, with all three group-stage matches taking place at Takashinga Sports Club in Harare.<\/p>\n<p>England Men U19 fixtures<\/p>\n<p>Friday 16 January: England Men U19 v Pakistan &#8211; Takashinga Sports Club, Harare (time TBC)<br \/>Sunday 18 January: England Men U19 v Zimbabwe &#8211; Takashinga Sports Club, Harare (time TBC)<br \/>Wednesday 21 January: England Men U19 v Scotland &#8211; Takashinga Sports Club, Harare (time TBC)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"England Men U19s will face Pakistan, Scotland and hosts Zimbabwe in the group stages of the 2026 ICC&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":272763,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[34],"tags":[1721,101,1602,56,54,55],"class_list":["post-272762","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-cricket","tag-cricket","tag-sports","tag-text","tag-uk","tag-united-kingdom","tag-unitedkingdom"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/272762","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=272762"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/272762\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/272763"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=272762"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=272762"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=272762"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}