{"id":961711,"date":"2026-05-15T14:24:16","date_gmt":"2026-05-15T14:24:16","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/961711\/"},"modified":"2026-05-15T14:24:16","modified_gmt":"2026-05-15T14:24:16","slug":"emilio-gay-england-getting-durham-batter-at-peak-of-power-says-coach","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/961711\/","title":{"rendered":"Emilio Gay: England getting Durham batter at &#8216;peak of power&#8217;, says coach"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Gay was named on the England Lions tour to Australia last winter to get on the radar, and he has impressed with how he has started the county season.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">His efforts included a match-winning 159 not out to beat Lancashire last month and other scores of 129 and 128.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">And with established opener Zak Crawley struggling to make runs for Kent, Gay has taken his chance, and even though he has batted at three for his county, he is an opener by trade.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Gay has a strong work ethic towards practice and Campbell believes England supporters not familiar with his batting will like what they see with the ex-Northants player.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">&#8220;What you are going to get is a traditional, stylish opening batter,&#8221; said the Australian.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">&#8220;Everyone has different ways to look at their game nowadays. Some are quite brutal when they come to hitting fours and sixes.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">&#8220;Whereas as a left-hander, when you watch Emilio bat, it won&#8217;t take long if he gets a couple of cover drives away, you&#8217;ll think this kid&#8217;s got something about him.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">&#8220;He&#8217;s very stylish, elegant and hopefully he&#8217;ll get the job done.&#8221;  <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Gay was named on the England Lions tour to Australia last winter to get on the radar, and&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":961712,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5008],"tags":[748,393,4884,16,15],"class_list":{"0":"post-961711","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-great-britain","11":"tag-uk","12":"tag-united-kingdom"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@uk\/116579052329610066","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/961711","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=961711"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/961711\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/961712"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=961711"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=961711"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=961711"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}