{"id":694774,"date":"2026-07-16T12:19:09","date_gmt":"2026-07-16T12:19:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/694774\/"},"modified":"2026-07-16T12:19:09","modified_gmt":"2026-07-16T12:19:09","slug":"stephen-eskinazi-leicestershire-name-batter-as-new-one-day-cup-captain","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/694774\/","title":{"rendered":"Stephen Eskinazi: Leicestershire name batter as new One-Day Cup captain"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Batter Stephen Eskinazi will captain Leicestershire during the forthcoming One-Day Cup competition.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">The 32-year-old will fill the role vacated by Australian Peter Handscomb, who was <a href=\"https:\/\/www.bbc.co.uk\/sport\/cricket\/articles\/cvg4en90q7yo\" class=\"ssrcss-1fqyhkk-InlineLink e1kn3p7n0\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">ruled out for the season<\/a> because of family commitments.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Eskinazi is in his first full season with Leicestershire, having initially joined the club on loan from Middlesex in the summer of 2025.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">They starts their One-Day Cup campaign at Kibworth against Gloucestershire on Wednesday, 22 July.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Batter Stephen Eskinazi will captain Leicestershire during the forthcoming One-Day Cup competition. The 32-year-old will fill the role&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":694775,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[34],"tags":[1721,101,56,54,55],"class_list":["post-694774","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\/694774","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=694774"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/694774\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/694775"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=694774"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=694774"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=694774"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}