{"id":1108426,"date":"2026-07-24T11:41:14","date_gmt":"2026-07-24T11:41:14","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/1108426\/"},"modified":"2026-07-24T11:41:14","modified_gmt":"2026-07-24T11:41:14","slug":"joe-root-set-to-be-reappointed-england-test-captain","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/1108426\/","title":{"rendered":"Joe Root set to be reappointed England Test captain"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"post_in-line_link\" href=\"https:\/\/inews.co.uk\/topic\/joe-root?ico=in-line_link\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Joe Root<\/a> is in line to be named as England\u2019s new Test captain \u2013 possibly until the end of next summer\u2019s Ashes.<\/p>\n<p>It is understood the England &amp; Wales Cricket Board (ECB) have not finalised their decision on who takes over from the retired <a class=\"post_in-line_link\" href=\"https:\/\/inews.co.uk\/topic\/ben-stokes?ico=in-line_link\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Ben Stokes<\/a>. <\/p>\n<p>However, The i Paper has been told that Root is now the clear favourite and is set to be installed in the job in the coming days.<\/p>\n<p>This is a breaking news story that is currently being updated.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Joe Root is in line to be named as England\u2019s new Test captain \u2013 possibly until the end&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":1108427,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","_share_on_mastodon":"0"},"categories":[5008],"tags":[748,393,7504,4884,66284,6924,31647,16,15],"class_list":["post-1108426","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-england","tag-britain","tag-england","tag-england-cricket","tag-great-britain","tag-joe-root","tag-sports-news","tag-test-cricket","tag-uk","tag-united-kingdom"],"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@uk\/116974773214873241","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1108426","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1108426"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1108426\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1108427"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1108426"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1108426"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1108426"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}