{"id":114344,"date":"2026-06-05T15:36:04","date_gmt":"2026-06-05T15:36:04","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/newsfortnite.com\/index.php\/2026\/06\/05\/eng-vs-nz-gay-scripts-history-becomes-first-ever-batter-since-strauss-to\/"},"modified":"2026-06-05T15:36:04","modified_gmt":"2026-06-05T15:36:04","slug":"eng-vs-nz-gay-scripts-history-becomes-first-ever-batter-since-strauss-to","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/newsfortnite.com\/index.php\/2026\/06\/05\/eng-vs-nz-gay-scripts-history-becomes-first-ever-batter-since-strauss-to\/","title":{"rendered":"ENG vs NZ: Gay scripts history, becomes first-ever batter since Strauss to&#8230;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>England opener Emilio Gay marked his Test debut against New Zealand at Lord&#8217;s with a composed 57 in the second innings. His crucial half-century anchored the hosts against a disciplined pace attack. With this knock, Gay became the first England men&#8217;s opener to score a debut fifty on home soil since Andrew Strauss in 2004, stabilising the top order.<\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>England opener Emilio Gay marked his Test debut against New Zealand at Lord&#8217;s with a composed 57 in the second innings. His crucial half-century anchored the hosts against a disciplined pace attack. With this knock, Gay became the first England men&#8217;s opener to score a debut fifty on home soil since Andrew Strauss in 2004,&hellip;&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/newsfortnite.com\/index.php\/2026\/06\/05\/eng-vs-nz-gay-scripts-history-becomes-first-ever-batter-since-strauss-to\/\" class=\"\" rel=\"bookmark\">Read More &raquo;<span class=\"screen-reader-text\">ENG vs NZ: Gay scripts history, becomes first-ever batter since Strauss to&#8230;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":0,"featured_media":114345,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_sitemap_exclude":false,"_sitemap_priority":"","_sitemap_frequency":"","neve_meta_sidebar":"","neve_meta_container":"","neve_meta_enable_content_width":"","neve_meta_content_width":0,"neve_meta_title_alignment":"","neve_meta_author_avatar":"","neve_post_elements_order":"","neve_meta_disable_header":"","neve_meta_disable_footer":"","neve_meta_disable_title":"","_themeisle_gutenberg_block_has_review":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/newsfortnite.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/114344"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/newsfortnite.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/newsfortnite.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newsfortnite.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=114344"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/newsfortnite.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/114344\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newsfortnite.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/114345"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/newsfortnite.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=114344"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newsfortnite.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=114344"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newsfortnite.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=114344"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}