{"id":148347,"date":"2025-06-01T02:34:10","date_gmt":"2025-06-01T02:34:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/148347\/"},"modified":"2025-06-01T02:34:10","modified_gmt":"2025-06-01T02:34:10","slug":"englands-overton-ruled-out-of-west-indies-series","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/148347\/","title":{"rendered":"England\u2019s Overton ruled out of West Indies series"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>    <img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/06\/1317291_2690259_Jamee_akhbar.jpg\" alt=\"Englands Jamie Overton. \u2014 AFP\/File\" width=\"700\" height=\"400\" class=\"\"\/><\/p>\n<p>England&#8217;s Jamie Overton. \u2014 AFP\/File<\/p>\n<p>LONDON: England fast bowler Jamie Overton will miss the rest of the white-ball series against the West Indies after suffering a broken finger.<\/p>\n<p>Overton sustained the injury while dropping a catch from just his second delivery in England\u00b4s 238-run win in the first one-day international on Thursday. The 31-year-old immediately sprinted to the dressing room clutching his right hand and grimacing.<\/p>\n<p>After treatment, he returned to bowl five more overs, claiming career-best ODI figures of three for 22, but he is now set for a short spell on the sidelines.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cJamie Overton has been ruled out of the remaining one-day internationals and the IT20s against the West Indies due to a broken right little finger,\u201d an ECB statement said on Saturday.<\/p>\n<p>England will not draft in a replacement for the last two ODIs on Sunday at Cardiff and Tuesday at The Oval, or for the three-match T20 series, which gets under way on June 6 in Durham.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"England&#8217;s Jamie Overton. \u2014 AFP\/File LONDON: England fast bowler Jamie Overton will miss the rest of the white-ball&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":148348,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5008],"tags":[748,393,63564,4884,18941,3577,19335,63565,63566,12863,16,15,7474],"class_list":{"0":"post-148347","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-england","8":"tag-britain","9":"tag-england","10":"tag-englands","11":"tag-great-britain","12":"tag-indies","13":"tag-of","14":"tag-out","15":"tag-overton","16":"tag-ruled","17":"tag-series","18":"tag-uk","19":"tag-united-kingdom","20":"tag-west"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/148347","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=148347"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/148347\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/148348"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=148347"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=148347"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=148347"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}