{"id":6776,"date":"2024-11-12T08:14:41","date_gmt":"2024-11-12T08:14:41","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/sport\/south-africa-rest-all-rounder-marizanne-kapp-for-england-t20-series\/"},"modified":"2024-11-12T08:14:41","modified_gmt":"2024-11-12T08:14:41","slug":"south-africa-rest-all-rounder-marizanne-kapp-for-england-t20-series","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/sport\/south-africa-rest-all-rounder-marizanne-kapp-for-england-t20-series\/","title":{"rendered":"South Africa rest all-rounder Marizanne Kapp for England T20 series"},"content":{"rendered":"<p> <br \/>\n<\/p>\n<div>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\"><b class=\"ssrcss-1xjjfut-BoldText e5tfeyi3\">World Cup finalists South Africa have rested all-rounder Marizanne Kapp for their upcoming T20 series with England.<\/b><\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">The Proteas are set to host Heather Knight&#8217;s side from 24 November for ODI and T20 series, each comprising three matches, followed by a one-off Test match.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Kapp, 34, will return for the 50-over matches, while a squad for the Test will be named at a later date.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">The T20 series is South Africa&#8217;s first outing since they lost <a href=\"https:\/\/www.bbc.com\/sport\/cricket\/articles\/c3rlgv5zxrlo\" class=\"ssrcss-k8mrr8-InlineLink e1kn3p7n0\">the World Cup final to New Zealand last month,<\/a> and their selectors have added all-rounders Eliz-Mari Marx and Nondumiso Shangase, and batter Faye Tunnicliffe, to their tournament squad.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Seamer Ayabonga Khaka has also been rested, all-rounder Seshnie Naidu will miss the series for school exams, while wicketkeeper Mieke de Ridder has been omitted.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">It will be England&#8217;s first series since they were eliminated from the World Cup in the group stage, and the tourists have <a href=\"https:\/\/www.bbc.com\/sport\/cricket\/articles\/clygdlp338po\" class=\"ssrcss-k8mrr8-InlineLink e1kn3p7n0\">dropped all-rounder Alice Capsey<\/a> for the Test and T20 legs of the tour.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">She has been replaced by batter Paige Scholfield, who will be in contention for a third T20 cap in the series opener in East London &#8211; on the south-eastern coast of South Africa.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><br \/>\n<br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/www.bbc.com\/sport\/cricket\/articles\/cdd0rm91rnyo\">Source link <\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>World Cup finalists South Africa have rested all-rounder Marizanne Kapp for their upcoming T20 series with England. The Proteas are set to host Heather Knight&#8217;s side from 24 November for ODI and T20 series, each comprising three matches, followed by a one-off Test match. Kapp, 34, will return for the 50-over matches, while a squad [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":6777,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-6776","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\/6776","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=6776"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/sport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6776\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":6778,"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/sport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6776\/revisions\/6778"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/sport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/6777"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/sport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6776"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/sport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6776"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/sport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6776"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}