{"id":45522,"date":"2026-09-15T12:23:53","date_gmt":"2026-09-15T10:23:53","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.channelafrica.co.za\/channelafrica\/?post_type=news&#038;p=45522"},"modified":"2026-09-15T12:23:53","modified_gmt":"2026-09-15T10:23:53","slug":"zimbabwes-taylor-takes-over-from-tendulkar-as-longest-serving-odi-player","status":"publish","type":"news","link":"https:\/\/www.channelafrica.co.za\/channelafrica\/news\/zimbabwes-taylor-takes-over-from-tendulkar-as-longest-serving-odi-player\/","title":{"rendered":"Zimbabwe&#8217;s Taylor takes over from Tendulkar as longest-serving ODI player"},"content":{"rendered":"<div dir=\"auto\">Brendan Taylor replaced India great Sachin Tendulkar as the longest-serving One-Day \u200bInternational (ODI) player on Tuesday after the \u200cZimbabwe veteran took the field for the series opener against Australia in Harare.<\/div>\n<div dir=\"auto\"><\/div>\n<div dir=\"auto\">Taylor&#8217;s ODI \u200bcareer now spans 22 years and \u200bfour months, taking the mantle from \u2060Tendulkar, who retired from the 50-overs \u200bformat in 2012 after playing for 22 \u200byears and three months.<\/div>\n<div dir=\"auto\"><\/div>\n<div dir=\"auto\">Tendulkar remains the highest run-scorer in ODIs (18.426) and the format&#8217;s most capped \u200bplayer with 463 appearances.<\/div>\n<div dir=\"auto\"><\/div>\n<div dir=\"auto\">Taylor, 40, emerged \u200bas one of Zimbabwe&#8217;s most prolific talents in \u200c2004 \u2060and has scored a national record 11 hundreds in 207 ODI games heading into Tuesday&#8217;s match.<\/div>\n<div dir=\"auto\"><\/div>\n<div dir=\"auto\">Taylor retired in 2021 \u200band was \u200bbanned for \u2060three and half years in 2022 for breaching the \u200bICC\u2019s Anti-Corruption and Anti-Doping codes.<\/div>\n<div dir=\"auto\"><\/div>\n<div dir=\"auto\">After serving \u200bthe \u2060suspension he came out of retirement in 2025 with Zimbabwe gearing up to \u2060co-host \u200bnext year&#8217;s ODI World \u200bCup with South Africa and Namibia.<\/div>\n<div dir=\"auto\"><\/div>\n<div dir=\"auto\">&#8211;Reuters&#8211;<\/div>\n","protected":false},"featured_media":22051,"template":"","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"news-type":[20],"class_list":["post-45522","news","type-news","status-publish","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","news-type-sport","entry"],"acf":{"short_description":"","published_date":"","news_description":"International cricket","form_embed":"","author":"","image_caption":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.channelafrica.co.za\/channelafrica\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news\/45522","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\/45522\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":45523,"href":"https:\/\/www.channelafrica.co.za\/channelafrica\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news\/45522\/revisions\/45523"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.channelafrica.co.za\/channelafrica\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/22051"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.channelafrica.co.za\/channelafrica\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=45522"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"news-type","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.channelafrica.co.za\/channelafrica\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news-type?post=45522"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}