{"id":66032,"date":"2021-12-29T09:16:28","date_gmt":"2021-12-29T09:16:28","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.gkseries.com\/blog\/?p=66032"},"modified":"2021-12-29T09:16:29","modified_gmt":"2021-12-29T09:16:29","slug":"former-england-test-captain-ray-illingworth-died-at-89","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.gkseries.com\/blog\/former-england-test-captain-ray-illingworth-died-at-89\/","title":{"rendered":"Former England Test Captain Ray Illingworth died at 89"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>Ray Illingworth, a former&nbsp;England&nbsp;cricket captain who went on to coach the team, has died. He was 89.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Illingworth, who led England to a 2-0 series victory in Australia in the 1970-71 Ashes, had been undergoing radiotherapy for esophageal&nbsp;cancer. Yorkshire, the English county Illingworth played for, announced his death.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\"><li>Illingworth played 61 test matches for England between 1958 and 1973, scoring 1,836 runs at an average of 23.24 and he claimed 122 wickets.<\/li><li>Apart from this, he served as chairman of the England selectors from 1993 to 1996 and coached the team in 1995-96.<\/li><\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Ray Illingworth, a former&nbsp;England&nbsp;cricket captain who went on to coach the team, has died. He was 89. Illingworth, who led England to a 2-0 series victory in Australia in the 1970-71 Ashes, had been undergoing radiotherapy for esophageal&nbsp;cancer. Yorkshire, the English county Illingworth played for, announced his death. Illingworth played 61 test matches for England [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":894,"featured_media":66036,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2506],"tags":[1801],"offerexpiration":[],"class_list":["post-66032","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-current-affairs-december-2021","tag-passes-away"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.gkseries.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/66032","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.gkseries.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.gkseries.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.gkseries.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/894"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.gkseries.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=66032"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.gkseries.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/66032\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":66037,"href":"https:\/\/www.gkseries.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/66032\/revisions\/66037"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.gkseries.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/66036"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.gkseries.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=66032"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.gkseries.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=66032"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.gkseries.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=66032"},{"taxonomy":"offerexpiration","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.gkseries.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/offerexpiration?post=66032"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}