{"id":61199,"date":"2025-09-05T02:36:00","date_gmt":"2025-09-05T02:36:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/newsfortnite.com\/index.php\/2025\/09\/05\/shock-comeback-cricket-legend-41-ends-retirement-to-play-for-samoa\/"},"modified":"2025-09-05T02:36:00","modified_gmt":"2025-09-05T02:36:00","slug":"shock-comeback-cricket-legend-41-ends-retirement-to-play-for-samoa","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/newsfortnite.com\/index.php\/2025\/09\/05\/shock-comeback-cricket-legend-41-ends-retirement-to-play-for-samoa\/","title":{"rendered":"Shock comeback! Cricket legend, 41, ends retirement to play for Samoa"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Ross Taylor, the former New Zealand cricket star, is set to make a comeback to the sport after a four-year retirement. He will be representing Samoa, his mother&#8217;s native country, in the upcoming Twenty20 World Cup qualifying series. Taylor aims to contribute his extensive experience to the team and help Samoa secure a spot in the 2026 World Cup.<\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Ross Taylor, the former New Zealand cricket star, is set to make a comeback to the sport after a four-year retirement. He will be representing Samoa, his mother&#8217;s native country, in the upcoming Twenty20 World Cup qualifying series. Taylor aims to contribute his extensive experience to the team and help Samoa secure a spot in&hellip;&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/newsfortnite.com\/index.php\/2025\/09\/05\/shock-comeback-cricket-legend-41-ends-retirement-to-play-for-samoa\/\" class=\"\" rel=\"bookmark\">Read More &raquo;<span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Shock comeback! Cricket legend, 41, ends retirement to play for Samoa<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":0,"featured_media":61200,"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\/61199"}],"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=61199"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/newsfortnite.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/61199\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newsfortnite.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/61200"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/newsfortnite.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=61199"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newsfortnite.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=61199"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newsfortnite.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=61199"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}