{"id":20758,"date":"2018-02-03T12:03:39","date_gmt":"2018-02-03T12:03:39","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/punjabnews24.com\/?p=20758"},"modified":"2018-02-03T12:03:39","modified_gmt":"2018-02-03T12:03:39","slug":"south-africas-stand-in-captain-to-be-named-as-injured-plessis-bows-out","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blastingskyhawk.com\/english\/south-africas-stand-in-captain-to-be-named-as-injured-plessis-bows-out\/","title":{"rendered":"South Africa&#8217;s stand-in captain to be named as injured Plessis bows out"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>South Africa skipper Faf du Plessis has been ruled out of the ongoing ODI series and the upcoming Twenty20 Internationals against India owing to a finger injury, a massive blow to the home side which lost the first one-dayer in Durban.<\/p>\n<p>Plessis was injured during the Durban ODI in which he scored his ninth hundred to take the Proteas to 269\/8. India chased down that total with ease winning by six wickets and taking a 1-0 lead.<\/p>\n<p>A replacement captain for the rest of the limited-overs&#8217; schedule against India will be named today, just 24 hours before the second ODI.<\/p>\n<p>This a huge blow for the Proteas who had earlier lost batting mainstay AB de Villiers for the first three ODIs, also owing to a finger injury sustained during the third Test at Wanderers.<\/p>\n<!-- AddThis Advanced Settings generic via filter on the_content --><!-- AddThis Share Buttons generic via filter on the_content -->","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>South Africa skipper Faf du Plessis has been ruled out of the ongoing ODI series and the upcoming Twenty20 Internationals against India owing to a finger injury, a massive blow to the home side which lost the first one-dayer in Durban. Plessis was injured during the Durban ODI in which he scored his ninth hundred [&hellip;]<!-- AddThis Advanced Settings generic via filter on get_the_excerpt --><!-- AddThis Share Buttons generic via filter on get_the_excerpt --><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":20759,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"inline_featured_image":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[122],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-20758","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blastingskyhawk.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20758","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blastingskyhawk.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blastingskyhawk.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blastingskyhawk.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blastingskyhawk.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=20758"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/blastingskyhawk.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20758\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":20760,"href":"https:\/\/blastingskyhawk.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20758\/revisions\/20760"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blastingskyhawk.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/20759"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blastingskyhawk.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=20758"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blastingskyhawk.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=20758"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blastingskyhawk.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=20758"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}