{"id":9036,"date":"2025-08-29T13:31:49","date_gmt":"2025-08-29T08:01:49","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.businessupturn.com\/sports\/?p=632142"},"modified":"2025-08-29T13:31:49","modified_gmt":"2025-08-29T08:01:49","slug":"zimbabwe-vs-sri-lanka-captain-craig-ervine-ruled-out-of-odi-series-sean-williams-to-lead","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.businessupturn.com\/sports\/cricket\/zimbabwe-vs-sri-lanka-captain-craig-ervine-ruled-out-of-odi-series-sean-williams-to-lead\/","title":{"rendered":"Zimbabwe vs Sri Lanka: Captain Craig Ervine ruled out of ODI series, Sean Williams to lead"},"content":{"rendered":"<p data-start=\"148\" data-end=\"340\">Zimbabwe suffered a major setback ahead of their opening ODI against Sri Lanka in Harare, as skipper <strong data-start=\"249\" data-end=\"265\">Craig Ervine<\/strong> has been ruled out of the two-match ODI series due to a <strong data-start=\"322\" data-end=\"337\">calf injury<\/strong>.<\/p>\n<p data-start=\"342\" data-end=\"648\">According to the Zimbabwe Cricket Board, an <strong data-start=\"386\" data-end=\"432\">MRI scan conducted on Thursday (August 28)<\/strong> revealed that Ervine suffered a <strong data-start=\"465\" data-end=\"500\">Grade 2 strain in his left calf<\/strong> and a <strong data-start=\"507\" data-end=\"565\">chronic and resolving Grade 1 strain in his right calf<\/strong>. The injury was sustained on the eve of the series opener at Harare Sports Club.<\/p>\n<p data-start=\"650\" data-end=\"829\">With Ervine sidelined, experienced all-rounder <strong data-start=\"697\" data-end=\"714\">Sean Williams<\/strong> has been handed the captaincy for the ODI series. Zimbabwe, however, are yet to name a replacement in the squad.<\/p>\n<p data-start=\"831\" data-end=\"1011\">Zimbabwe and Sri Lanka will play a short limited-overs series comprising <strong data-start=\"904\" data-end=\"932\">two ODIs and three T20Is<\/strong> between <strong data-start=\"941\" data-end=\"970\">August 29 and September 7<\/strong>, with all matches scheduled in Harare.<\/p>\n<p data-start=\"1013\" data-end=\"1176\">This injury comes as another blow for Zimbabwe, who were already banking on senior players like Ervine and Brendan Taylor to provide stability against Sri Lanka.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Zimbabwe suffered a major setback ahead of their opening ODI against Sri Lanka in Harare, as skipper Craig Ervine has\u2026<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":250,"featured_media":31805,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[2968],"class_list":["post-9036","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-cricket","tag-craig-ervine"],"reading_time":"1 min read","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.businessupturn.com\/sports\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9036","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=9036"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.businessupturn.com\/sports\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9036\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.businessupturn.com\/sports\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/31805"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.businessupturn.com\/sports\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=9036"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.businessupturn.com\/sports\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=9036"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.businessupturn.com\/sports\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=9036"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}