{"id":631838,"date":"2026-06-10T20:58:16","date_gmt":"2026-06-10T20:58:16","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/631838\/"},"modified":"2026-06-10T20:58:16","modified_gmt":"2026-06-10T20:58:16","slug":"jordan-cox-named-in-england-test-match-squad","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/631838\/","title":{"rendered":"Jordan Cox named in England Test Match Squad"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Essex batter Jordan Cox has today been named in the England Test Match squad for the second Test Match against New Zealand next week at The Oval.<\/p>\n<p>Yorkshire batter Joe Root will lead the team as Interim Captain.<\/p>\n<p>Sussex fast bowler Jofra Archer and Essex batter Jordan Cox have been added to the squad.<\/p>\n<p>England Men&#8217;s Test Squad:<\/p>\n<p>Joe Root (Yorkshire) &#8211; Captain<br \/>Rehan Ahmed (Leicestershire)<br \/>Jofra Archer (Sussex)<br \/>Sonny Baker (Hampshire)<br \/>Shoaib Bashir (Derbyshire)<br \/>Jacob Bethell (Warwickshire)<br \/>Harry Brook (Yorkshire)<br \/>Jordan Cox (Essex)<br \/>Ben Duckett (Nottinghamshire)<br \/>Matthew Fisher (Surrey)<br \/>Emilio Gay (Durham)<br \/>James Rew (Somerset)<br \/>Ollie Robinson (Sussex)<br \/>Jamie Smith (Surrey)<br \/>Josh Tongue (Nottinghamshire)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Essex batter Jordan Cox has today been named in the England Test Match squad for the second Test&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":631839,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[34],"tags":[1721,101,56,54,55],"class_list":["post-631838","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\/631838","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=631838"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/631838\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/631839"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=631838"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=631838"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=631838"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}