{"id":31589,"date":"2026-07-01T11:32:46","date_gmt":"2026-07-01T11:32:46","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/sport\/t20-world-cup-england-captain-nat-sciver-brunt-fit-for-semi-final-against-south-africa\/"},"modified":"2026-07-01T11:32:46","modified_gmt":"2026-07-01T11:32:46","slug":"t20-world-cup-england-captain-nat-sciver-brunt-fit-for-semi-final-against-south-africa","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/sport\/t20-world-cup-england-captain-nat-sciver-brunt-fit-for-semi-final-against-south-africa\/","title":{"rendered":"T20 World Cup: England captain Nat Sciver-Brunt fit for semi-final against South Africa"},"content":{"rendered":"<p> <br \/>\n<\/p>\n<div>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\"><b class=\"ssrcss-1xjjfut-BoldText e5tfeyi3\">England captain Nat Sciver-Brunt has been passed fit to return from injury for Thursday&#8217;s T20 World Cup semi-final against South Africa.<\/b><\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Sciver-Brunt, 33, who has not played since England&#8217;s second match of the tournament against Ireland after a recurrence of her calf issue, batted in the nets again on Wednesday morning.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">She also trained on Tuesday at Lord&#8217;s and England have deemed her fit enough to return as her side attempts to win a World Cup for the first time since 2017.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">&#8220;We are confident I am fully fit,&#8221; Sciver-Brunt told BBC Test Match Special.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\"><b class=\"ssrcss-1xjjfut-BoldText e5tfeyi3\">More to follow<\/b><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><br \/>\n<br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/www.bbc.co.uk\/sport\/cricket\/articles\/cze902zj526o?at_medium=RSS&#038;at_campaign=rss\">Source link <\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>England captain Nat Sciver-Brunt has been passed fit to return from injury for Thursday&#8217;s T20 World Cup semi-final against South Africa. Sciver-Brunt, 33, who has not played since England&#8217;s second match of the tournament against Ireland after a recurrence of her calf issue, batted in the nets again on Wednesday morning. She also trained on [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":31590,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[10],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-31589","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-top-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/sport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/31589","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=31589"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/sport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/31589\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":31591,"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/sport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/31589\/revisions\/31591"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/sport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/31590"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/sport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=31589"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/sport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=31589"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/sport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=31589"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}