{"id":222363,"date":"2025-06-28T21:57:09","date_gmt":"2025-06-28T21:57:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/222363\/"},"modified":"2025-06-28T21:57:09","modified_gmt":"2025-06-28T21:57:09","slug":"hampshire-preview-reaction-required-as-pears-hit-the-road","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/222363\/","title":{"rendered":"Hampshire Preview: Reaction required as Pears hit the road"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>Worcestershire Captain Brett D\u2019Oliveira says his side will \u201ccome back stronger\u201d as they prepare to take on Hampshire this weekend, in their next instalment of the Rothesay County Championship. <\/strong><\/p>\n<p>After watching his side fall to a heavy defeat against title-contenders, Surrey, last time out, D\u2019Oliveira is in the frame to return to action this Sunday.<\/p>\n<p>Absent through injury, the captain says watching from the sidelines has been frustrating but is confident his team have all the parts in place to return to somewhere near their best this weekend.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIt is never easy sitting the other side of the rope, especially when things aren\u2019t going your way. I know full well that this sort of result sparks a change, and all the lads have been working exceptionally hard to ensure we come back stronger this weekend. <\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe looked at things, identified what needs to change and be corrected, now we are firmly looking ahead to Sunday and keen to get stuck in against another well-organised side. <\/p>\n<p>\u201cAlan mentioned it earlier in the week, about resilience and spirit being our hallmarks, so we have to translate that into a complete performance.\u201d <\/p>\n<p>Having been named in the squad to face Surrey, the Worcestershire Club Captain played no part in the game, with his return from injury a process being managed very carefully by the club\u2019s medical staff.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Worcestershire Captain Brett D\u2019Oliveira says his side will \u201ccome back stronger\u201d as they prepare to take on Hampshire&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":222364,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4101],"tags":[1406,79,16,15],"class_list":{"0":"post-222363","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-cricket","8":"tag-cricket","9":"tag-sports","10":"tag-uk","11":"tag-united-kingdom"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/222363","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=222363"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/222363\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/222364"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=222363"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=222363"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=222363"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}