{"id":60814,"date":"2019-05-07T11:56:56","date_gmt":"2019-05-07T11:56:56","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blastingskyhawk.com\/?p=60814"},"modified":"2019-05-07T11:56:58","modified_gmt":"2019-05-07T11:56:58","slug":"chris-gayle-named-west-indies-vice-captain-for-world-cup","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blastingskyhawk.com\/english\/chris-gayle-named-west-indies-vice-captain-for-world-cup\/","title":{"rendered":"Chris Gayle named West Indies vice captain for World Cup"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>The West  Indies cricket board has named opening batsman Chris Gayle as the  deputy to skipper Jason Holder for the 50-over World Cup, which begins  at the end of this month in England and Wales.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Former captain \nGayle, 39, will be playing in his fifth World Cup and has amassed over \n10,000 runs in 289 one-day internationals for the Caribbean side.\u201cAs a \nsenior player it is my responsibility to support the captain and \neveryone else in the team,\u201d Gayle said in a statement from Cricket West \nIndies.\u201cThis will probably be the biggest World Cup, so there will be \ngreat expectations and I know we\u2019ll do very well for the people of the \nWest Indies.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Wicket-keeper batsman Shai Hope, who has played 50 \nODIs with five centuries to his name, was named the vice captain for the\n ongoing tri-series in Ireland, which also features Bangladesh.\n\n<\/p>\n<!-- AddThis Advanced Settings generic via filter on the_content --><!-- AddThis Share Buttons generic via filter on the_content -->","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The West Indies cricket board has named opening batsman Chris Gayle as the deputy to skipper Jason Holder for the 50-over World Cup, which begins at the end of this month in England and Wales. Former captain Gayle, 39, will be playing in his fifth World Cup and has amassed over 10,000 runs in 289 [&hellip;]<!-- AddThis Advanced Settings generic via filter on get_the_excerpt --><!-- AddThis Share Buttons generic via filter on get_the_excerpt --><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":60815,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"inline_featured_image":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[122],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-60814","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blastingskyhawk.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/60814","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blastingskyhawk.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blastingskyhawk.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blastingskyhawk.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blastingskyhawk.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=60814"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/blastingskyhawk.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/60814\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":60816,"href":"https:\/\/blastingskyhawk.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/60814\/revisions\/60816"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blastingskyhawk.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/60815"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blastingskyhawk.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=60814"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blastingskyhawk.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=60814"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blastingskyhawk.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=60814"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}