{"id":80195,"date":"2025-08-20T13:08:08","date_gmt":"2025-08-20T13:08:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/80195\/"},"modified":"2025-08-20T13:08:08","modified_gmt":"2025-08-20T13:08:08","slug":"england-to-tour-sri-lanka-ahead-of-t20-world-cup-2026","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/80195\/","title":{"rendered":"England to tour Sri Lanka ahead of T20 World Cup 2026"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p> ENGLAND TOUR OF SRI LANKA, 2026 <\/p>\n<p>           <img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"cursor-pointer\" height=\"396\" width=\"595\" alt=\"Harry Brook has had a strong start to his stint as white-ball captain of England so far \" title=\"Harry Brook has had a strong start to his stint as white-ball captain of England so far \" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/08\/harry-brook-has-had-a-strong-s.jpg\" itemprop=\"contentUrl\"\/> <\/p>\n<p>Harry Brook has had a strong start to his stint as white-ball captain of England so far \u00a9 Getty<\/p>\n<p class=\"cb-nws-para\"> England&#8217;s men&#8217;s side will tour Sri Lanka for a white-ball series in early 2026, ahead of the T20 World Cup. Confirming the development, the England &amp; Wales Cricket Board (ECB) announced the itinerary for the tour comprising of three ODIs and three T20Is. <\/p>\n<p class=\"cb-nws-para\"> The tour will begin with the 50-over format with games scheduled on January 22, January 24 and January 27. The T20Is will then follow on January 30, February 1 and February 3. Venues for the matches are as yet undecided. <\/p>\n<p class=\"cb-nws-para\"> The T20I series will be part of England&#8217;s build-up to the World Cup scheduled to be hosted by India and Sri Lanka. England, champions in 2010 and 2022, fell at the semi-final stage in the previous edition in the West Indies and the USA. <\/p>\n<p> \u00a9 Cricbuzz <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"ENGLAND TOUR OF SRI LANKA, 2026 Harry Brook has had a strong start to his stint as white-ball&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":80196,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[34],"tags":[1721,101,56,54,55],"class_list":["post-80195","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\/80195","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=80195"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/80195\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/80196"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=80195"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=80195"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=80195"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}