{"id":4977,"date":"2022-12-19T11:55:31","date_gmt":"2022-12-19T06:25:31","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.businessupturn.com\/sports\/?p=265542"},"modified":"2022-12-19T11:55:31","modified_gmt":"2022-12-19T06:25:31","slug":"mark-chapman-gets-first-nzc-central-contract","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.businessupturn.com\/sports\/cricket\/mark-chapman-gets-first-nzc-central-contract\/","title":{"rendered":"Mark Chapman gets first NZC central contract"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Kiwi batsman Mark Chapman\u00a0has been given his first central New Zealand Cricket contract by New Zealand. The left-hander effectively fills Martin Guptill\u2019s position after he was let go from his NZC contract in November.<\/p>\n<p>Chapman\u00a0played in 21 matches for his native nation Hong Kong\u00a0before making his debut for New Zealand in 2018. Since then, he has played in 27 matches for the Kiwis (22 T20Is and 5 ODIs). Champan also participated in New Zealand\u2019s participation in the previous two T20 World Cups.<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"550\" data-dnt=\"true\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">Contract News | <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/aucklandcricket?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">@aucklandcricket<\/a> batsman Mark Chapman has been awarded his first New Zealand Cricket central contract, effectively filling the vacancy left by Martin Guptill\u2019s departure in November. <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/3tVs2Q6avs\">https:\/\/t.co\/3tVs2Q6avs<\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/hashtag\/CricketNation?src=hash&ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">#CricketNation<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2014 BLACKCAPS (@BLACKCAPS) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/BLACKCAPS\/status\/1604617522510176261?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">December 18, 2022<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe\u2019re delighted to have Mark join the central contract list after being there or thereabouts for a while,\u201d said New Zealand head coach Gary Stead.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cHe\u2019s a fine player and we like the versatility and innovation he brings to his batting.He\u2019s a guy with a lot of talent and we see him being a big part of future BLACKCAPS squads,\u201d he added.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Kiwi batsman Mark Chapman\u00a0has been given his first central New Zealand Cricket contract by New Zealand. The left-hander effectively fills\u2026<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":250,"featured_media":27967,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[2508,1220],"class_list":["post-4977","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-cricket","tag-blackcaps","tag-nzc"],"reading_time":"1 min read","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.businessupturn.com\/sports\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4977","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\/250"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.businessupturn.com\/sports\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4977"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.businessupturn.com\/sports\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4977\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.businessupturn.com\/sports\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/27967"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.businessupturn.com\/sports\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4977"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.businessupturn.com\/sports\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4977"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.businessupturn.com\/sports\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4977"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}