{"id":1152,"date":"2020-08-11T14:47:00","date_gmt":"2020-08-11T09:17:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.businessupturn.com\/sports\/?p=31646"},"modified":"2020-08-11T14:47:00","modified_gmt":"2020-08-11T09:17:00","slug":"new-zealand-is-set-to-host-international-cricket-matches-later-this-year","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.businessupturn.com\/sports\/cricket\/new-zealand-is-set-to-host-international-cricket-matches-later-this-year\/","title":{"rendered":"New Zealand is set to host international cricket matches later this year."},"content":{"rendered":"<p>New Zealand Cricket (NZC) chief executive David White provided an update on the team\u2019s schedule and is optimistic about the upcoming tours saying that they are making \u2018tremendous progress\u2019.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe are making tremendous progress. I was just on the phone to the West Indies, they\u2019re confirmed, Pakistan is confirmed, Australia and Bangladesh, so 37 days of international cricket. We will go through the details of that in due course,\u201d David White said in a video posted on Twitter.<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"550\" data-dnt=\"true\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">NZC CEO David White also gave an update on the potential shape of the New Zealand summer schedule at today's MediaWorks Radio announcement. Tours from <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/windiescricket?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">@windiescricket<\/a>, <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/TheRealPCB?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">@TheRealPCB<\/a>, <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/CricketAus?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">@CricketAus<\/a> and <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/BCBtigers?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">@BCBtigers<\/a> to NZ are all in the proposed schedule <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/hashtag\/CricketNation?src=hash&ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">#CricketNation<\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/F10qYvyFLI\">pic.twitter.com\/F10qYvyFLI<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2014 BLACKCAPS (@BLACKCAPS) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/BLACKCAPS\/status\/1293051574764281857?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">August 11, 2020<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<p>New Zealand is set to host international cricket during their summer with men\u2019s tours by West Indies, Pakistan, Australia, and Bangladesh. A visit by the Australia Women\u2019s team is also in the early stages of planning for the gap created by the postponed ODI World Cup in February.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe last time the men\u2019s team was in action was in the behind-closed-doors ODI against Australia in mid-March. The women\u2019s team is believed to be the first back on the field with their trip to Australia in late September that includes three T20Is and three ODIs, \u201d read a report by ESPNcricinfo<\/p>\n<p>The report further added with on The Women\u2019s ODI World Cup, which was due to be staged in February and March next year, was postponed by 12 months earlier this week when it was decided that there would not be sufficient time for teams to qualify and prepare for the tournament.<\/p>\n<p>New Zealand has been one of the most successful countries in combatting Covid-19 and recently marked 100 days without community transmission. One of the main concerns was that teams haven\u2019t played a match since March. Yet confident to go ahead, New Zealand remains the host of the tournament.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>New Zealand is ready to host the international cricket matches later this year. Countries have started confirming. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":437,"featured_media":24283,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[427,425,389],"class_list":["post-1152","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-cricket","tag-bangladesh","tag-corona","tag-sports"],"reading_time":"2 min read","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.businessupturn.com\/sports\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1152","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.businessupturn.com\/sports\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.businessupturn.com\/sports\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.businessupturn.com\/sports\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/437"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.businessupturn.com\/sports\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1152"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.businessupturn.com\/sports\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1152\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.businessupturn.com\/sports\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/24283"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.businessupturn.com\/sports\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1152"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.businessupturn.com\/sports\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1152"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.businessupturn.com\/sports\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1152"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}