{"id":5922,"date":"2023-03-27T15:40:10","date_gmt":"2023-03-27T10:10:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.businessupturn.com\/sports\/?p=292524"},"modified":"2023-03-27T15:40:10","modified_gmt":"2023-03-27T10:10:10","slug":"new-zealand-names-tom-latham-as-captain-for-upcoming-t20i-series-against-sl-and-pakistan","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.businessupturn.com\/sports\/cricket\/new-zealand-names-tom-latham-as-captain-for-upcoming-t20i-series-against-sl-and-pakistan\/","title":{"rendered":"New Zealand names Tom Latham as captain for upcoming T20I series against SL and Pakistan"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>For New Zealand\u2019s two T20I games against Pakistan and Sri Lanka, Tom Latham has been appointed captain. On April 2, April 5, and April 8, New Zealand will welcome Sri Lanka for three Twenty20 Internationals before departing the following day for Pakistan for five games from April 14 to 24. New Zealand has selected a 13-man team for the matches against Sri Lanka and a 15-man team for the visit of Pakistan.<\/p>\n<section class=\"cb-nws-dtl-itms\">\n<blockquote>\n<p class=\"cb-nws-para\">\u201cWe saw against India earlier this season the power and range of shots that Tom possesses,\u201d New Zealand head coach Gary Stead said. \u201cHis adaptability also means he can feature in a range of batting positions. He led an inexperienced T20 squad to Bangladesh in 2021 and we were really impressed with his leadership of that group during a COVID bubble tour.\u201d<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<section class=\"cb-nws-dtl-itms\">\n<p class=\"cb-nws-para\"><b>NZ squad for SL T20Is<\/b>: Tom Latham (c, wk), Chad Bowes, Mark Chapman, Matt Henry, Ben Lister, Adam Milne, Daryl Mitchell, Jimmy Neesham, Rachin Ravindra, Tim Seifert, Henry Shipley, Ish Sodhi, Will Young<\/p>\n<\/section>\n<p class=\"cb-nws-para\"><b>NZ squad for Pakistan T20Is:<\/b>\u00a0Tom Latham (c, wk), Chad Bowes, Mark Chapman, Dane Cleaver, Matt Henry, Ben Lister, Adam Milne, Cole McConchie, Daryl Mitchell, Jimmy Neesham, Rachin Ravindra, Henry Shipley, Ish Sodhi, Blair Tickner, Will Young<\/p>\n<\/section>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>For New Zealand\u2019s two T20I games against Pakistan and Sri Lanka, Tom Latham has been appointed captain. On April 2,\u2026<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":250,"featured_media":28855,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[3363,1183],"class_list":["post-5922","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-cricket","tag-t20is","tag-tom-latham"],"reading_time":"2 min read","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.businessupturn.com\/sports\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5922","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=5922"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.businessupturn.com\/sports\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5922\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.businessupturn.com\/sports\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/28855"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.businessupturn.com\/sports\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5922"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.businessupturn.com\/sports\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5922"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.businessupturn.com\/sports\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5922"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}