{"id":9034,"date":"2025-08-29T13:18:10","date_gmt":"2025-08-29T07:48:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.businessupturn.com\/sports\/?p=632135"},"modified":"2025-08-29T13:18:10","modified_gmt":"2025-08-29T07:48:10","slug":"zimbabwe-vs-sri-lanka-1st-odi-brendan-taylor-suffers-finger-injury-exits-field-early","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.businessupturn.com\/sports\/cricket\/zimbabwe-vs-sri-lanka-1st-odi-brendan-taylor-suffers-finger-injury-exits-field-early\/","title":{"rendered":"Zimbabwe vs Sri Lanka 1st ODI: Brendan Taylor suffers finger injury, exits field early"},"content":{"rendered":"<p data-start=\"163\" data-end=\"509\">In a setback for Zimbabwe, veteran wicketkeeper-batter <strong data-start=\"218\" data-end=\"236\">Brendan Taylor<\/strong> has injured one of his fingers during the opening ODI against Sri Lanka at the Harare Sports Club on Friday, August 29. Taylor, who was part of the playing XI and entrusted with keeping duties, appeared in discomfort and was forced to leave the field after the incident.<\/p>\n<p data-start=\"511\" data-end=\"758\">As a precautionary measure, <strong data-start=\"539\" data-end=\"556\">Clive Madande<\/strong> has taken over the wicketkeeping gloves. The severity of Taylor\u2019s injury is yet to be confirmed, and Zimbabwe fans will be hoping it is not serious, given his importance to the team\u2019s batting lineup.<\/p>\n<p data-start=\"760\" data-end=\"1172\">Earlier in the day, Zimbabwe won the toss and opted to bowl first. Sri Lanka, led by <strong data-start=\"845\" data-end=\"865\">Charith Asalanka<\/strong>, began their innings with <strong data-start=\"892\" data-end=\"911\">Pathum Nissanka<\/strong> and <strong data-start=\"916\" data-end=\"935\">Nishan Madushka<\/strong> opening the batting. At the time of the injury, Sri Lanka were at <strong data-start=\"1002\" data-end=\"1022\">9\/0 in 2.2 overs<\/strong>, with Nissanka batting on 8 and Madushka yet to open his account. <strong data-start=\"1089\" data-end=\"1108\">Richard Ngarava<\/strong> and <strong data-start=\"1113\" data-end=\"1136\">Blessing Muzarabani<\/strong> shared the new ball for Zimbabwe.<\/p>\n<p data-start=\"1174\" data-end=\"1277\">This match marks the start of the three-match ODI series, part of Sri Lanka\u2019s tour of Zimbabwe, 2025.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In a setback for Zimbabwe, veteran wicketkeeper-batter Brendan Taylor has injured one of his fingers during the opening ODI against\u2026<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":250,"featured_media":31804,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-9034","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-cricket"],"reading_time":"1 min read","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.businessupturn.com\/sports\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9034","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=9034"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.businessupturn.com\/sports\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9034\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.businessupturn.com\/sports\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/31804"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.businessupturn.com\/sports\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=9034"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.businessupturn.com\/sports\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=9034"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.businessupturn.com\/sports\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=9034"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}