{"id":679718,"date":"2026-07-08T04:03:23","date_gmt":"2026-07-08T04:03:23","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/679718\/"},"modified":"2026-07-08T04:03:23","modified_gmt":"2026-07-08T04:03:23","slug":"sikandar-raza-zimbabwe-t20-captain-would-return-to-worcestershire-in-a-heartbeat-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/679718\/","title":{"rendered":"Sikandar Raza: Zimbabwe T20 captain would return to Worcestershire &#8216;in a heartbeat&#8217;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Despite losing Raza&#8217;s services, Worcestershire carried on their winning momentum against Glamorgan on Sunday, beating the Welsh county by 15 runs in Cardiff to stay on course for a place in the Blast quarter-finals.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Reflecting on his time with the Rapids, Raza said he would love the chance to link back up with the Pears.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">&#8220;Hopefully when the opportunity comes and Worcestershire want me back. I&#8217;ll come back in a heartbeat,&#8221; he said.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">&#8220;I think enjoy is not the word. I have loved it. I&#8217;ve loved being part of the family.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">&#8220;The beauty about this was I wasn&#8217;t just family in the changing room, or to the Worcester cricket community, I think I became a family to the whole county and everyone who came to the ground.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">&#8220;I know they accepted me and welcomed me like family and I have loved being part of this family.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Worcestershire are third in their group, level on 24 points with Gloucestershire, with two matches remaining.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">The top two from each of the three groups, and the two best third-placed teams, qualify for next week&#8217;s quarter-finals.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Despite losing Raza&#8217;s services, Worcestershire carried on their winning momentum against Glamorgan on Sunday, beating the Welsh county&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":678741,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[34],"tags":[1721,101,56,54,55],"class_list":["post-679718","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\/679718","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=679718"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/679718\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/678741"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=679718"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=679718"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=679718"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}