{"id":226515,"date":"2025-06-30T11:39:09","date_gmt":"2025-06-30T11:39:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/226515\/"},"modified":"2025-06-30T11:39:09","modified_gmt":"2025-06-30T11:39:09","slug":"edgbaston-set-for-huge-india-support-during-test-match","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/226515\/","title":{"rendered":"Edgbaston set for &#8216;huge&#8217; India support during test match"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">This week will see <a href=\"https:\/\/www.bbc.co.uk\/sport\/cricket\/articles\/c9vrm0d2114o\" class=\"ssrcss-f6h2dj-InlineLink e1kn3p7n0\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Jofra Archer<\/a> in a first Test appearance in more than four years after being named in England&#8217;s 15-man squad.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">He is the only addition to an otherwise unchanged squad after England&#8217;s win last week, which Agnew said was &#8220;a fantastic victory&#8221;.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">&#8220;I think they&#8217;ve played some very exciting cricket over the last three years since Ben Stokes and Brendon McCullum got together,&#8221; he said, &#8220;but it&#8217;s always been slightly on a knife-edge.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">&#8220;There have been some victories along the way. There have also been some terrible defeats where England has fallen in a bit of a heap, but this was a very measured, calm, rather a new approach, to be honest, and it was very, very encouraging to see.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">The following Tests will take place at Lord&#8217;s, from 10 to 14 July, Old Trafford, from 23 to 27 July, and the Oval, from 31 July to 4 August.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"This week will see Jofra Archer in a first Test appearance in more than four years after being&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":226516,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4101],"tags":[1406,79,16,15],"class_list":{"0":"post-226515","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":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@uk\/114772127061493462","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/226515","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=226515"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/226515\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/226516"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=226515"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=226515"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=226515"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}