{"id":26465,"date":"2025-02-20T15:47:09","date_gmt":"2025-02-20T15:47:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/kede.com.br\/sport\/champions-trophy-2025-jamie-smith-to-bat-at-number-three-in-englands-opener-against-australia\/"},"modified":"2025-02-20T15:47:10","modified_gmt":"2025-02-20T15:47:10","slug":"champions-trophy-2025-jamie-smith-to-bat-at-number-three-in-englands-opener-against-australia","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/kede.com.br\/sport\/champions-trophy-2025-jamie-smith-to-bat-at-number-three-in-englands-opener-against-australia\/","title":{"rendered":"Champions Trophy 2025: Jamie Smith to bat at number three in England&#8217;s opener against Australia"},"content":{"rendered":"<p> <br \/>\n<\/p>\n<div>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\"><b class=\"ssrcss-1xjjfut-BoldText e5tfeyi3\">Wicketkeeper Jamie Smith will take the gloves and bat at number three in England&#8217;s Champions Trophy opener against Australia on Saturday.<\/b><\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Smith, 24, has recovered from a calf injury that ruled him out of the last two T20s and the entire one-day international series against India earlier this month.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Phil Salt, who had been England&#8217;s first-choice wicketkeeper, remains as opener alongside Ben Duckett while Joe Root drops down to number four.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Durham&#8217;s Brydon Carse also returns after a toe injury in a three-strong pace attack that also includes Mark Wood and Jofra Archer.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\"><b class=\"ssrcss-1xjjfut-BoldText e5tfeyi3\">England XI:<\/b> Phil Salt, Ben Duckett, Jamie Smith (wk), Joe Root, Harry Brook, Jos Buttler (capt), Liam Livingstone, Brydon Carse, Jofra Archer, Adil Rashid, Mark Wood<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><br \/>\n<br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/www.bbc.com\/sport\/cricket\/articles\/cx2xmjemxl9o\">Source link <\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Wicketkeeper Jamie Smith will take the gloves and bat at number three in England&#8217;s Champions Trophy opener against Australia on Saturday. Smith, 24, has recovered from a calf injury that ruled him out of the last two T20s and the entire one-day international series against India earlier this month. Phil Salt, who had been England&#8217;s [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":26466,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[4],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/kede.com.br\/sport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/26465"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/kede.com.br\/sport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/kede.com.br\/sport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kede.com.br\/sport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kede.com.br\/sport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=26465"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/kede.com.br\/sport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/26465\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":26467,"href":"https:\/\/kede.com.br\/sport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/26465\/revisions\/26467"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kede.com.br\/sport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/26466"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/kede.com.br\/sport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=26465"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kede.com.br\/sport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=26465"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kede.com.br\/sport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=26465"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}