{"id":646869,"date":"2025-12-21T19:41:10","date_gmt":"2025-12-21T19:41:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/646869\/"},"modified":"2025-12-21T19:41:10","modified_gmt":"2025-12-21T19:41:10","slug":"new-zealand-batter-ruled-out-until-march-with-injury","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/646869\/","title":{"rendered":"New Zealand batter ruled out until March with injury"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>\u201cI\u2019m gutted to be missing out this summer, I was really looking forward to another season with the Sparks, especially the Super Smash,\u201d said Bates.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI\u2019m determined to get back on the field with the White Ferns in March so that\u2019ll be my focus for now.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>On the international stage, Bates was last seen in her side\u2019s final group stage clash of the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.icc-cricket.com\/tournaments\/womens-cricket-worldcup-2025\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">ICC Women\u2019s Cricket World Cup 2025<\/a> against England.<\/p>\n<p>Bates had a below par outing for her standards, amassing just 40 runs across five innings as New Zealand eventually ended sixth on the table with just a single win across seven games.<\/p>\n<p>With the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.icc-cricket.com\/tournaments\/womens-t20-worldcup-2026\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">ICC Women&#8217;s T20 World Cup 2026<\/a> coming up in six months&#8217; time, New Zealand are next scheduled to face Zimbabwe in a three-match ODI &amp; T20I series, set to begin on February 25 in Hamilton.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"\u201cI\u2019m gutted to be missing out this summer, I was really looking forward to another season with the&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":646870,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4101],"tags":[1406,145387,145385,56086,145400,145396,145399,145397,11096,145398,145395,145401,145407,145406,145388,2192,145405,145390,145389,30566,145393,145394,145403,79,145402,145404,145392,145386,145391,16,15],"class_list":{"0":"post-646869","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-cricket","8":"tag-cricket","9":"tag-cricket-breaking-news","10":"tag-cricket-headlines-today","11":"tag-cricket-live-score","12":"tag-cricket-match-highlights-today","13":"tag-cricket-match-live-streaming-score","14":"tag-cricket-match-result-today","15":"tag-cricket-match-today-live","16":"tag-cricket-news","17":"tag-cricket-results-today","18":"tag-cricket-scorecard-live","19":"tag-cricket-series-updates","20":"tag-cricket-world-cup-live-score","21":"tag-cricket-world-cup-news","22":"tag-cricket-world-news","23":"tag-icc","24":"tag-icc-cricket-updates","25":"tag-international-cricket-live-score","26":"tag-international-cricket-news","27":"tag-latest-cricket-news","28":"tag-latest-cricket-scores","29":"tag-live-cricket-match-update","30":"tag-odi-cricket-live-score","31":"tag-sports","32":"tag-t20-cricket-live-score","33":"tag-test-cricket-live-score","34":"tag-today-cricket-live-score","35":"tag-today-cricket-news-update","36":"tag-todays-cricket-match-score","37":"tag-uk","38":"tag-united-kingdom"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"","error":"Validation failed: Text character limit of 500 exceeded"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/646869","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=646869"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/646869\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/646870"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=646869"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=646869"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=646869"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}