{"id":965576,"date":"2024-07-13T13:20:20","date_gmt":"2024-07-13T13:20:20","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/localhost:8888\/dm-simulator-v2\/?p=965576"},"modified":"2024-07-13T13:20:20","modified_gmt":"2024-07-13T13:20:20","slug":"wood-replaces-retired-anderson-in-england-squad-for-windies-test","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/elections.sabc.co.za\/elections2024\/wood-replaces-retired-anderson-in-england-squad-for-windies-test\/","title":{"rendered":"Wood replaces retired Anderson in England squad for Windies test"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"tr-story-p1\">Fast bowler Mark Wood will take James Anderson&#8217;s spot in the England squad for next week&#8217;s second test against West Indies at Trent Bridge, the England and Wales Cricket Board (ECB) said on Saturday.<\/p>\n<p>Anderson, 41, retired on Friday after finishing his 188th test, having taken 704 wickets in a career spanning 21 years &#8211; the third-highest wicket taker in the format, as England\u00a0beat West Indies\u00a0by an innings and 114 runs at Lord&#8217;s.<\/p>\n<p>Wood has played 34 tests, taking 108 wickets. The 34-year-old&#8217;s last test was against India in March.<\/p>\n<p>The second test begins on Thursday, with a third and final test scheduled at Birmingham starting on July 26.<\/p>\n<p><strong>England Squad<\/strong>: Ben Stokes (captain), Gus Atkinson, Shoaib Bashir, Harry Brook, Zak Crawley, Ben Duckett, Dan Lawrence, Dillon Pennington, Ollie Pope, Matthew Potts, Joe Root, Jamie Smith, Chris Woakes, Mark Wood.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Fast bowler Mark Wood will take James Anderson&#8217;s spot in England squad for next week&#8217;s second test<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":58,"featured_media":965577,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[629,225],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-965576","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-cricket","category-sport"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/elections.sabc.co.za\/elections2024\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/965576","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/elections.sabc.co.za\/elections2024\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/elections.sabc.co.za\/elections2024\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/elections.sabc.co.za\/elections2024\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/58"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/elections.sabc.co.za\/elections2024\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=965576"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/elections.sabc.co.za\/elections2024\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/965576\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/elections.sabc.co.za\/elections2024\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/965577"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/elections.sabc.co.za\/elections2024\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=965576"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/elections.sabc.co.za\/elections2024\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=965576"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/elections.sabc.co.za\/elections2024\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=965576"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}