{"id":708979,"date":"2026-07-24T14:59:09","date_gmt":"2026-07-24T14:59:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/708979\/"},"modified":"2026-07-24T14:59:09","modified_gmt":"2026-07-24T14:59:09","slug":"nat-sciver-brunt-england-captain-to-miss-first-two-trent-rockets-matches-to-manage-workload","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/708979\/","title":{"rendered":"Nat Sciver-Brunt: England captain to miss first two Trent Rockets matches to manage workload"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">England captain Nat Sciver-Brunt will miss Trent Rockets&#8217; first two matches of The Hundred to manage her workload. <\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Sciver-Brunt, 33, has been managing a calf problem throughout the summer. <\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">The all-rounder suffered the injury playing domestic cricket for The Blaze in April, and it led to her missing England&#8217;s early series against New Zealand and India as well as three group-stage matches of the T20 World Cup. <\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">It also meant she had to play as a specialist batter during the tournament, where England were beaten by Australia in the final at Lord&#8217;s. <\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">England&#8217;s next series starts on 1 September with three one-day internationals against Ireland.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Trent Rockets open their Hundred campaign on Friday against Birmingham Phoenix at 15:00 BST and then take on London Spirit on Sunday. <\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Sciver-Brunt previously captained the Rockets but stepped down from the role in 2025 shortly after she took on the England leadership.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Her wife, former England bowler Katherine, was recently appointed as Rockets&#8217; assistant coach.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"England captain Nat Sciver-Brunt will miss Trent Rockets&#8217; first two matches of The Hundred to manage her workload.&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":708980,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[34],"tags":[1721,101,56,54,55],"class_list":["post-708979","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\/708979","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=708979"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/708979\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/708980"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=708979"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=708979"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=708979"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}