{"id":3788,"date":"2026-10-09T11:17:25","date_gmt":"2026-10-09T05:47:25","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blooming9news.com\/new-zealand-lose-mark-chapman-and-zak-foulkes-for-india-t20-series-through-injury\/"},"modified":"2026-10-09T11:30:13","modified_gmt":"2026-10-09T06:00:13","slug":"new-zealand-lose-mark-chapman-and-zak-foulkes-for-india-t20-series-through-injury","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blooming9news.com\/te\/new-zealand-lose-mark-chapman-and-zak-foulkes-for-india-t20-series-through-injury\/","title":{"rendered":"New Zealand Lose Mark Chapman and Zak Foulkes for India T20 Series Through Injury"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>New Zealand have suffered a double injury blow ahead of their Twenty20 series against India, with <strong>Mark Chapman<\/strong> and <strong>Zak Foulkes<\/strong> ruled out.<\/p>\n<p>New Zealand Cricket confirmed on October 9 that Chapman, a key middle-order batter, and fast bowler Foulkes will miss the series because of injuries.<\/p>\n<h2>Replacements yet to be announced<\/h2>\n<p>The board had not immediately named replacements, leaving New Zealand with decisions to make as they prepare to face a strong Indian side.<\/p>\n<p>The absences reduce both batting depth and pace-bowling options for the visitors and could influence the balance of the playing XI during the series.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Related:<\/strong> Follow more <a href=\"https:\/\/blooming9news.com\/te\/category\/sports\/\">Sports news<\/a> and browse the <a href=\"https:\/\/blooming9news.com\/te\/latest-news-2\/\">latest updates<\/a> from Blooming 9 News.<\/p>\n<p><em>This report is based on Reuters reporting published October 9, 2026.<\/em><\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>New Zealand batter Mark Chapman and fast bowler Zak Foulkes have been ruled out of the T20 series against India due to injury, New Zealand Cricket said on October 9.<\/p>","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":3790,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"googlesitekit_rrm_CAowpoq8DA:productID":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3788","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-sports","resize-featured-image"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blooming9news.com\/te\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3788","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blooming9news.com\/te\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blooming9news.com\/te\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blooming9news.com\/te\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blooming9news.com\/te\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3788"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/blooming9news.com\/te\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3788\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3800,"href":"https:\/\/blooming9news.com\/te\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3788\/revisions\/3800"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blooming9news.com\/te\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/3790"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blooming9news.com\/te\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3788"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blooming9news.com\/te\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3788"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blooming9news.com\/te\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3788"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}