{"id":54290,"date":"2025-08-09T05:06:11","date_gmt":"2025-08-09T05:06:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/54290\/"},"modified":"2025-08-09T05:06:11","modified_gmt":"2025-08-09T05:06:11","slug":"the-hundred-2025-matt-henry-to-replace-chris-woakes-at-welsh-fire","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/54290\/","title":{"rendered":"The Hundred 2025: Matt Henry to replace Chris Woakes at Welsh Fire"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">New Zealand seamer Matt Henry will replace the injured Chris Woakes at Welsh Fire in The Hundred.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Henry, 33, will join the squad after the conclusion of the Kiwis&#8217; Test against Zimbabwe and is set to be available from the match against Manchester Originals on 13 August.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">He has played eight matches for Fire before, taking 11 wickets. <\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">England pace bowler Woakes, 36, was ruled out of the tournament after hurting his shoulder on the opening day of the fifth Test against India last week.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Woakes heroically came out to bat with his arm in a sling on the final day as England lost by six runs at The Oval. <\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Fire were beaten by Northern Superchargers in their opening game on Thursday. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"New Zealand seamer Matt Henry will replace the injured Chris Woakes at Welsh Fire in The Hundred. Henry,&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":54291,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[34],"tags":[1721,101,56,54,55],"class_list":["post-54290","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\/54290","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=54290"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/54290\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/54291"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=54290"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=54290"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=54290"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}