{"id":89156,"date":"2025-05-10T04:24:11","date_gmt":"2025-05-10T04:24:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/89156\/"},"modified":"2025-05-10T04:24:11","modified_gmt":"2025-05-10T04:24:11","slug":"kiwi-cricketers-involved-in-indian-premier-league-returning-home-to-new-zealand-pakistan-based-group-head-to-dubai","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/89156\/","title":{"rendered":"Kiwi cricketers involved in Indian Premier League returning home to New Zealand, Pakistan-based group head to Dubai"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"\">The five Kiwis playing in this year\u2019s Indian Premier League (IPL) are returning to New Zealand, amid the current tensions between India and Pakistan.<\/p>\n<p class=\"\">On Friday, the IPL \u2013 cricket\u2019s most lucrative tournament \u2013 was suspended for a week because of the cross-border tensions between the two nations.<\/p>\n<p class=\"\">On Saturday morning, New Zealand Cricket (NZC) confirmed the group of five players \u201chave either left India, or are in the process of leaving as flights become available\u201d.<\/p>\n<p class=\"\">Those players are Trent Boult, Rachin Ravindra, Devon Conway, Mitchell Santner and Bevon Jacobs. Glenn Phillips and Lockie Ferguson had also been involved, but left the tournament early because of injury.<\/p>\n<p class=\"\">Along the same lines, non-playing New Zealanders are also <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nzherald.co.nz\/world\/pakistan-and-india-accuse-each-other-of-waves-of-drone-attacks\/6YJXAMPGY5BABMVITRHP5OMFDU\/\" target=\"_self\" rel=\"noopener\" title=\"https:\/\/www.nzherald.co.nz\/world\/pakistan-and-india-accuse-each-other-of-waves-of-drone-attacks\/6YJXAMPGY5BABMVITRHP5OMFDU\/\">departing India<\/a>. Former Black Caps captains Stephen Fleming and Daniel Vettori both hold coaching roles within the league, as head coaches of the Chennai Super Kings and Sunrisers Hyderabad respectively.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The five Kiwis playing in this year\u2019s Indian Premier League (IPL) are returning to New Zealand, amid the&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":89157,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4101],"tags":[25043,25047,1406,42396,42403,2721,34677,14117,19266,1444,256,730,42398,42397,5710,13685,42401,6695,9641,6026,42400,25494,15395,42399,79,14781,9989,6093,16,15,42402,9642],"class_list":{"0":"post-89156","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-cricket","8":"tag-amid","9":"tag-between","10":"tag-cricket","11":"tag-cricketers","12":"tag-current","13":"tag-dubai","14":"tag-five","15":"tag-group","16":"tag-head","17":"tag-home","18":"tag-in","19":"tag-india","20":"tag-indian","21":"tag-involved","22":"tag-ipl","23":"tag-kiwi","24":"tag-kiwis","25":"tag-league","26":"tag-new","27":"tag-pakistan","28":"tag-pakistanbased","29":"tag-playing","30":"tag-premier","31":"tag-returning","32":"tag-sports","33":"tag-tensions","34":"tag-this","35":"tag-to","36":"tag-uk","37":"tag-united-kingdom","38":"tag-years","39":"tag-zealand"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@uk\/114481637860152028","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/89156","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=89156"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/89156\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/89157"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=89156"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=89156"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=89156"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}