{"id":15452,"date":"2025-06-06T13:51:47","date_gmt":"2025-06-06T13:51:47","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/sport\/new-zealand-cricket-rob-walter-new-head-coach-across-all-formats\/"},"modified":"2025-06-06T13:51:47","modified_gmt":"2025-06-06T13:51:47","slug":"new-zealand-cricket-rob-walter-new-head-coach-across-all-formats","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/sport\/new-zealand-cricket-rob-walter-new-head-coach-across-all-formats\/","title":{"rendered":"New Zealand cricket: Rob Walter new head coach across all formats"},"content":{"rendered":"<p> <br \/>\n<\/p>\n<div>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\"><b class=\"ssrcss-1xjjfut-BoldText e5tfeyi3\">Rob Walter has been named as New Zealand&#8217;s new head coach for all three formats of the game.<\/b><\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">The former South Africa white-ball coach has signed a three-year contract and will take over in mid-June ahead of New Zealand&#8217;s tour of Zimbabwe.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">His contract will run through to the next One-Day International World Cup in 2027, as well as the next two T20 World Cups in 2026 and 2028.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">There is also potential for New Zealand to take part when cricket debuts at the Olympics in Los Angeles in 2028, which will take the T20 format.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Walter, 49, was one of the favourites for the job after it was revealed he had continued living in New Zealand during his time with South Africa.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">While in charge, he lead them to the final of the 2024 T20 World Cup, narrowly losing to India by seven runs.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><br \/>\n<br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/www.bbc.com\/sport\/cricket\/articles\/cpw7e5vx01go\">Source link <\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Rob Walter has been named as New Zealand&#8217;s new head coach for all three formats of the game. The former South Africa white-ball coach has signed a three-year contract and will take over in mid-June ahead of New Zealand&#8217;s tour of Zimbabwe. His contract will run through to the next One-Day International World Cup in [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":15453,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-15452","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-cricket"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/sport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15452","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/sport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/sport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/sport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/sport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=15452"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/sport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15452\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":15454,"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/sport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15452\/revisions\/15454"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/sport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/15453"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/sport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=15452"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/sport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=15452"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/sport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=15452"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}