{"id":450836,"date":"2026-02-28T20:06:10","date_gmt":"2026-02-28T20:06:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/450836\/"},"modified":"2026-02-28T20:06:10","modified_gmt":"2026-02-28T20:06:10","slug":"t20-world-cup-englands-rehan-ahmed-plays-down-hopes-of-place-in-semi-final-xi","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/450836\/","title":{"rendered":"T20 World Cup: England’s Rehan Ahmed plays down hopes of place in semi-final XI"},"content":{"rendered":"

England all-rounder Rehan Ahmed played down his hopes of selection for the T20 World Cup semi-finals despite his crucial role in Friday’s win over New Zealand.<\/p>\n

Making his World Cup debut, Ahmed, 21, took a wicket with his first ball and then scored a crucial 19 not out to secure victory in England’s chase<\/a> in partnership with Will Jacks.<\/p>\n

As a spinner, he was brought into the XI for the turning conditions in Colombo but England’s semi-final is likely to be on a truer surface in Mumbai on Thursday.<\/p>\n

“I’m not too bothered about my place in the team,” said Ahmed, who became England’s youngest men’s Test cricketer in 2022.<\/p>\n

“Baz [coach Brendon McCullum] and Brooky [captain Harry Brook] will definitely put out the best team they think is going to win, as they did [against New Zealand]. <\/p>\n

“It’s not a personal thing for me – it’s a World Cup, it’s my first World Cup to be in. <\/p>\n

“I’ll just keep enjoying the ride, if I get the nod I’ll play and if not then I’ll give water to the boys.”<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"England all-rounder Rehan Ahmed played down his hopes of selection for the T20 World Cup semi-finals despite his…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":450837,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[34],"tags":[1721,101,56,54,55],"class_list":["post-450836","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-cricket","tag-cricket","tag-sports","tag-uk","tag-united-kingdom","tag-unitedkingdom"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/450836","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=450836"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/450836\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/450837"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=450836"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=450836"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=450836"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}