{"id":3004,"date":"2026-01-04T15:25:18","date_gmt":"2026-01-04T15:25:18","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/africa\/3004\/"},"modified":"2026-01-04T15:25:18","modified_gmt":"2026-01-04T15:25:18","slug":"zimbabwe-appoint-new-test-and-odi-captain","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/africa\/3004\/","title":{"rendered":"Zimbabwe appoint new Test and ODI captain"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Bennett has featured in 11 Tests and 11 ODIs so far. In the longest format, he has amassed 509 runs, including the fastest Test century by a Zimbabwean. In 50-over cricket, he has scored 348 runs, with a highest score of 169 against Ireland earlier this year.<\/p>\n<p>The chairman also paid tribute to outgoing captain Craig Ervine, who first led Zimbabwe in 2020 during a Test match against Bangladesh and took over the ODI team in 2021.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cCraig Ervine led with professionalism, resilience and dignity during a challenging period. ZC is deeply grateful for his contribution to the team\u2019s stability and progress,\u201d Mukuhlani said.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Bennett has featured in 11 Tests and 11 ODIs so far. In the longest format, he has amassed&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":3005,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[60],"tags":[201,199,335,345,341,344,342,197,343,340,204,349,206,202,195,205,334,203,198,338,339,347,346,348,337,200,336,106],"class_list":{"0":"post-3004","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-zimbabwe","8":"tag-cricket-breaking-news","9":"tag-cricket-headlines-today","10":"tag-cricket-live-score","11":"tag-cricket-match-highlights-today","12":"tag-cricket-match-live-streaming-score","13":"tag-cricket-match-result-today","14":"tag-cricket-match-today-live","15":"tag-cricket-news","16":"tag-cricket-results-today","17":"tag-cricket-scorecard-live","18":"tag-cricket-series-updates","19":"tag-cricket-world-cup-live-score","20":"tag-cricket-world-cup-news","21":"tag-cricket-world-news","22":"tag-icc","23":"tag-icc-cricket-updates","24":"tag-international-cricket-live-score","25":"tag-international-cricket-news","26":"tag-latest-cricket-news","27":"tag-latest-cricket-scores","28":"tag-live-cricket-match-update","29":"tag-odi-cricket-live-score","30":"tag-t20-cricket-live-score","31":"tag-test-cricket-live-score","32":"tag-today-cricket-live-score","33":"tag-today-cricket-news-update","34":"tag-todays-cricket-match-score","35":"tag-zimbabwe"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/africa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3004","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/africa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/africa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/africa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/africa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3004"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/africa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3004\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/africa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/3005"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/africa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3004"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/africa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3004"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/africa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3004"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}