{"id":39306,"date":"2026-07-10T18:30:20","date_gmt":"2026-07-10T16:30:20","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.channelafrica.co.za\/channelafrica\/?post_type=news&#038;p=39306"},"modified":"2026-07-10T18:30:20","modified_gmt":"2026-07-10T16:30:20","slug":"zimbabwe-confirm-future-captains-across-all-formats","status":"publish","type":"news","link":"https:\/\/www.channelafrica.co.za\/channelafrica\/news\/zimbabwe-confirm-future-captains-across-all-formats\/","title":{"rendered":"Zimbabwe confirm future captains across all formats"},"content":{"rendered":"<div dir=\"auto\">Zimbabwe have confirmed Richard Ngarava will \u200bcaptain their test \u200cand One-Day International sides while veteran Sikandar Raza is \u200bretained as Twenty20 \u200bcaptain, the country\u2019s cricket board \u2060said in a \u200bstatement <span dir=\"ltr\">this Friday<\/span>.<\/div>\n<div dir=\"auto\"><\/div>\n<div dir=\"auto\">Josephine Nkomo \u200bwas appointed captain of the Zimbabwe women\u2019s team.<\/div>\n<div dir=\"auto\"><\/div>\n<div dir=\"auto\">Ngarava made his \u200bcaptaincy debut in \u200bthe one-off Test against Bangladesh at \u200cHarare \u2060Sports Club in June, which Zimbabwe won by an innings and \u200b85 runs, \u200band \u2060was also in charge for their \u200btwo One Day International wins \u200bover \u2060Bangladesh this week.<\/div>\n<div dir=\"auto\"><\/div>\n<div dir=\"auto\">The 28-year-old opening bowler replaces Craig \u2060Ervine \u200bas test \u200bcaptain.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p>\u2014Reuters\u2014<\/p>\n","protected":false},"featured_media":12386,"template":"","meta":{"_acf_changed":false},"news-type":[20],"class_list":["post-39306","news","type-news","status-publish","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","news-type-sport","entry"],"acf":{"short_description":"Josephine Nkomo \u200bwas appointed captain of the Zimbabwe women\u2019s team.","published_date":"","news_description":"Josephine Nkomo \u200bwas appointed captain of the Zimbabwe women\u2019s team.","form_embed":"","author":"","image_caption":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.channelafrica.co.za\/channelafrica\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news\/39306","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.channelafrica.co.za\/channelafrica\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.channelafrica.co.za\/channelafrica\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/news"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.channelafrica.co.za\/channelafrica\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news\/39306\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":39307,"href":"https:\/\/www.channelafrica.co.za\/channelafrica\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news\/39306\/revisions\/39307"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.channelafrica.co.za\/channelafrica\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/12386"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.channelafrica.co.za\/channelafrica\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=39306"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"news-type","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.channelafrica.co.za\/channelafrica\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news-type?post=39306"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}