{"id":704456,"date":"2026-07-22T02:25:20","date_gmt":"2026-07-22T02:25:20","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/704456\/"},"modified":"2026-07-22T02:25:20","modified_gmt":"2026-07-22T02:25:20","slug":"jacob-bethell-to-miss-the-hundred-with-a-knee-injury","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/704456\/","title":{"rendered":"Jacob Bethell to miss The Hundred with a knee injury"},"content":{"rendered":"

England all-rounder Jacob Bethell has been ruled out of The Hundred with a knee injury sustained during the recent one-day international series against India. <\/p>\n

Bethell had been named as Birmingham Phoenix captain for the season. <\/p>\n

The England and Wales Cricket Board (ECB) said that the 22-year-old had an MRI scan on Monday but they have not indicated when he will return. <\/p>\n

England’s Test series against Pakistan starts on 19 August. <\/p>\n

It is a blow for Bethell to miss out on the experience of captaincy, as he is regarded as a future England leader, having already led the side in a T20 series against Ireland last year. <\/p>\n

He has also been in fine form, including a player of the match performance<\/a> in Sunday’s series decider at Lord’s where he struck 91 at the top of the order and took 1-49.<\/p>\n

He will be replaced by South Africa’s Donovan Ferreira as Phoenix skipper, who is a two-time Hundred champion with Oval Invincibles. <\/p>\n

Phoenix’s opening match is against Trent Rockets at Edgbaston on Friday (18:30 BST).<\/p>\n

Bethell, who plays county cricket for Warwickshire, was retained by Phoenix in the auction earlier this year with a contract worth \u00a3340,000. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"England all-rounder Jacob Bethell has been ruled out of The Hundred with a knee injury sustained during the…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":704457,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[34],"tags":[1721,101,56,54,55],"class_list":["post-704456","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\/704456","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=704456"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/704456\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/704457"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=704456"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=704456"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=704456"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}