{"id":1260,"date":"2014-09-28T12:15:19","date_gmt":"2014-09-28T12:15:19","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/cricbol.com\/blog\/?p=1260"},"modified":"2014-09-28T12:15:19","modified_gmt":"2014-09-28T12:15:19","slug":"vettori-test-career-comes-to-an-end","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/cricbol.com\/blog\/2014\/09\/28\/vettori-test-career-comes-to-an-end\/","title":{"rendered":"Vettori Test Career Comes to an End"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/cricbol.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/09\/2014-09-28-17.32.33.png\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone\" src=\"http:\/\/cricbol.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/09\/2014-09-28-17.32.33-300x197.png\" alt=\"2014-09-28 17.32.33\" width=\"323\" height=\"212\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Vettori accepts Test career may be over<\/p>\n<p>Daniel Vettori, New Zealand&#8217;s most capped Test player, has accepted that his playing days in the longest format are virtually over. Due to a series of injuries, he hasn&#8217;t played a Test in more than two years, and he has now set his sights on the World Cup at home. &#8220;[Test cricket&#8217;s] not at the forefront of my mind,&#8221; he told the Herald on Sunday.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;I can&#8217;t guarantee the amount of overs [required] to play a Test match and don&#8217;t want to get in way of Ish [Sodhi] and Mark [Craig] in their development. It&#8217;s definitely on the back burner.&#8221; Almost all the cricket that the 35-year-old Vettori has played in 2014 has been with Twenty20 franchises, with Jamaica Tallawahs in the Caribbean Premier League and with Brisbane Heat in Australia&#8217;s Big Bash. He also coached Royal Challengers Bangalore in the IPL this year. He hasn&#8217;t played one-day cricket since June 2013, but has turned out for Northern Districts in four first-class matches last season.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&nbsp; Vettori accepts Test career may be over Daniel Vettori, New Zealand&#8217;s most capped Test player, has accepted that his playing days in the longest format are virtually over. Due to a series of injuries, he hasn&#8217;t played a Test in more than two years, and he has now set his sights on the World [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1815,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[70,8],"tags":[265,266,264],"class_list":["post-1260","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-featured","category-interesting-stories","tag-daniel","tag-newzealand","tag-vettori"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/cricbol.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1260","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/cricbol.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/cricbol.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cricbol.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1815"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cricbol.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1260"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/cricbol.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1260\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1262,"href":"https:\/\/cricbol.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1260\/revisions\/1262"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/cricbol.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1260"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cricbol.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1260"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cricbol.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1260"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}