{"id":102642,"date":"2021-07-20T14:04:47","date_gmt":"2021-07-20T14:04:47","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/sportinfo.pro\/?p=102642"},"modified":"2021-07-20T14:56:46","modified_gmt":"2021-07-20T14:56:46","slug":"aaron-finch-injured-alex-carey-to-captain-australia-against-west-indies","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sportinfo.pro\/?p=102642","title":{"rendered":"Aaron Finch injured, Alex Carey to captain Australia against West Indies"},"content":{"rendered":"<div style=\"margin: 5px 5% 10px 5%\"><img loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/arysports.tv\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/07\/Finch-and-Carey.jpg\" width=\"742\" height=\"486\" title=\"\" alt=\"\" \/><\/div>\n<div>\n<p><strong>St Lucia: Alex Carey will captain Australia in the first one-day match against West Indies in Barbados later on Tuesday after regular skipper Aaron Finch aggravated a knee injury during last week&#8217;s fifth T20 in St Lucia, the team said.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Wicketkeeper-batsman Carey takes over the captaincy in the absence of regular vice-captain Pat Cummins who is sitting out the Caribbean tour.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;I am deeply honoured to be able to lead the team while Aaron recovers,&#8221; said Carey, who has previously captained Australia A, Big Bash League team Adelaide Strikers and Sheffield Shield side South Australia.<\/p>\n<p>Australia, without a number of key players who skipped the tour, were thrashed 4-1 in the T20 series by the Caribbeans.<\/p>\n<p>The second ODI is in Barbados on Thursday, with the third and final match on Saturday.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<div class=\"mh-excerpt\"><p>St Lucia: Alex Carey will captain Australia in the first one-day match against West Indies in Barbados later on Tuesday after regular skipper Aaron Finch <a class=\"mh-excerpt-more\" href=\"https:\/\/sportinfo.pro\/?p=102642\" title=\"Aaron Finch injured, Alex Carey to captain Australia against West Indies\">[&#8230;]<\/a><\/p>\n<\/div>","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[1],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/sportinfo.pro\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/102642"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/sportinfo.pro\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/sportinfo.pro\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sportinfo.pro\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sportinfo.pro\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=102642"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/sportinfo.pro\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/102642\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":102644,"href":"https:\/\/sportinfo.pro\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/102642\/revisions\/102644"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sportinfo.pro\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=102642"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sportinfo.pro\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=102642"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sportinfo.pro\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=102642"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}