{"id":82659,"date":"2021-06-09T12:10:38","date_gmt":"2021-06-09T12:10:38","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/sportinfo.pro\/?p=82659"},"modified":"2021-06-09T12:56:13","modified_gmt":"2021-06-09T12:56:13","slug":"williamson-ruled-out-of-second-england-test-latham-to-lead-new-zealand","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sportinfo.pro\/?p=82659","title":{"rendered":"Williamson ruled out of second England Test, Latham to lead New Zealand"},"content":{"rendered":"<div style=\"margin: 5px 5% 10px 5%\"><img loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/arysports.tv\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/06\/Kane-and-Latham.jpg\" width=\"800\" height=\"480\" title=\"\" alt=\"\" \/><\/div>\n<div>\n<p><strong>Karachi: New Zealand captain Kane Williamson has been ruled out of the second Test against England at Edgbaston due to his persistent elbow injury.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Opener Tom Latham, the side&#8217;s vice-captain, will lead the team in Williamson&#8217;s absence. He previously led against Australia at the SCG in January 2020 and West Indies at Wellington in December.<\/p>\n<p>The injury is not expected to rule him out of the World Test Championship final against India, which starts on June 18 at the Ageas Bowl.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;It&#8217;s not an easy decision for Kane to have to miss a Test, but we think it&#8217;s the right one,&#8221; Gary Stead, New Zealand&#8217;s head coach, said.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;He&#8217;s had an injection in his elbow to relieve the irritation he&#8217;s been experiencing when he bats and a period of rest and rehabilitation will help maximise his recovery,&#8221; he added.<\/p>\n<p>Williamson will be replaced in the New Zealand side by Will Young, the top-order batter who won both of his Test caps to date in the home series against West Indies in December.<\/p>\n<h3><strong>Read:\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/arysports.tv\/ecb-suspends-ollie-robinson-international-cricket\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">ECB suspends Ollie Robinson from international cricket<\/a><\/strong><\/h3>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<div class=\"mh-excerpt\"><p>Karachi: New Zealand captain Kane Williamson has been ruled out of the second Test against England at Edgbaston due to his persistent elbow injury. Opener <a class=\"mh-excerpt-more\" href=\"https:\/\/sportinfo.pro\/?p=82659\" title=\"Williamson ruled out of second England Test, Latham to lead New Zealand\">[&#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\/82659"}],"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=82659"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/sportinfo.pro\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/82659\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":82661,"href":"https:\/\/sportinfo.pro\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/82659\/revisions\/82661"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sportinfo.pro\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=82659"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sportinfo.pro\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=82659"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sportinfo.pro\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=82659"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}