{"id":327851,"date":"2025-12-21T08:35:17","date_gmt":"2025-12-21T08:35:17","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/327851\/"},"modified":"2025-12-21T08:35:17","modified_gmt":"2025-12-21T08:35:17","slug":"zimbabwe-appoint-new-test-and-odi-captain","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/327851\/","title":{"rendered":"Zimbabwe appoint new Test and ODI captain"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Bennett has featured in 11 Tests and 11 ODIs so far. In the longest format, he has amassed 509 runs, including the fastest Test century by a Zimbabwean. In 50-over cricket, he has scored 348 runs, with a highest score of 169 against Ireland earlier this year.<\/p>\n<p>The chairman also paid tribute to outgoing captain Craig Ervine, who first led Zimbabwe in 2020 during a Test match against Bangladesh and took over the ODI team in 2021.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cCraig Ervine led with professionalism, resilience and dignity during a challenging period. ZC is deeply grateful for his contribution to the team\u2019s stability and progress,\u201d Mukuhlani said.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Bennett has featured in 11 Tests and 11 ODIs so far. In the longest format, he has amassed&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":327852,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[34],"tags":[1721,67813,67811,67817,67827,67823,67826,67824,16326,67825,67822,67828,67834,67833,67814,6518,67832,67816,67815,67810,67820,67821,67830,101,67829,67831,67819,67812,67818,56,54,55],"class_list":["post-327851","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-cricket","tag-cricket","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-odi-cricket-live-score","tag-sports","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","tag-uk","tag-united-kingdom","tag-unitedkingdom"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/327851","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=327851"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/327851\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/327852"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=327851"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=327851"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=327851"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}