{"id":46478,"date":"2026-07-31T23:55:13","date_gmt":"2026-07-31T22:55:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/topxnews.com\/index.php\/2026\/07\/31\/joe-root-reappointed-england-test-captain-as-stephen-fleming-named-head-coach-following-brendon-mccullums-departure-cricket-news-sky-sports\/"},"modified":"2026-07-31T23:55:13","modified_gmt":"2026-07-31T22:55:13","slug":"joe-root-reappointed-england-test-captain-as-stephen-fleming-named-head-coach-following-brendon-mccullums-departure-cricket-news-sky-sports","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/topxnews.com\/index.php\/2026\/07\/31\/joe-root-reappointed-england-test-captain-as-stephen-fleming-named-head-coach-following-brendon-mccullums-departure-cricket-news-sky-sports\/","title":{"rendered":"Joe Root reappointed England Test captain as Stephen Fleming named head coach following Brendon McCullum&#8217;s departure | Cricket News | Sky Sports"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Joe Root reappointed England Test captain as Stephen Fleming named head coach following Brendon McCullum&#8217;s departure Joe Root returns as England Test captain while Stephen Fleming succeeds Brendon McCullum as head coach; former New Zealand captain most recently coached Chennai Super Kings, leading them to 2023 IPL title; watch England&#8217;s series against Pakistan live on<br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/www.skysports.com\/cricket\/news\/12123\/13568100\/joe-root-reappointed-england-test-captain-as-stephen-fleming-named-head-coach-following-brendon-mccullums-departure\" class=\"button purchase\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Read More<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Joe Root reappointed England Test captain as Stephen Fleming named head coach following Brendon McCullum&#8217;s departure Joe Root returns as England Test captain while Stephen Fleming succeeds Brendon McCullum as head coach; former New Zealand captain most recently coached Chennai Super Kings, leading them to 2023 IPL title; watch England&#8217;s series against Pakistan live onRead [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":46479,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/topxnews.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/46478"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/topxnews.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/topxnews.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/topxnews.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/topxnews.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=46478"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/topxnews.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/46478\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/topxnews.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/46479"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/topxnews.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=46478"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/topxnews.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=46478"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/topxnews.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=46478"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}