{"id":38473,"date":"2018-08-07T11:41:42","date_gmt":"2018-08-07T11:41:42","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blastingskyhawk.com\/?p=38473"},"modified":"2018-08-07T11:41:42","modified_gmt":"2018-08-07T11:41:42","slug":"south-africa-captain-faf-du-plessis-ruled-out-of-remainder-of-sri-lanka-tour","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blastingskyhawk.com\/english\/south-africa-captain-faf-du-plessis-ruled-out-of-remainder-of-sri-lanka-tour\/","title":{"rendered":"South Africa captain Faf Du Plessis ruled out of remainder of Sri Lanka tour"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>South Africa captain Faf du Plessis will miss the remainder of his side\u2019s limited overs tour to Sri Lanka after injuring his shoulder in Sunday\u2019s 78-run victory that clinched the one-day international series.<\/p>\n<p>Du Plessis hurt his shoulder while diving for a catch and played no futher part in the match.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cFaf sustained an injury to one of the rotator cuff tendons in his right shoulder and will unfortunately be unavailable for the rest of the tour,\u201d team manager Mohammed Moosajee said in a media release from Cricket South Africa on Monday.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cHe will need a rehabilitation period of up to six weeks to make a full recovery.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>The South Africans hold an unassailable 3-0 lead in the five-match series, with the fourth game scheduled for the Pallekele International Cricket Stadium on Wednesday.<\/p>\n<p>The teams will also be involved in a one-off Twenty20 international in Colombo on Aug. 14 that will close the tour, which included two test matches that were convincingly won by the home side.<\/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 captain Faf du Plessis will miss the remainder of his side\u2019s limited overs tour to Sri Lanka after injuring his shoulder in Sunday\u2019s 78-run victory that clinched the one-day international series. Du Plessis hurt his shoulder while diving for a catch and played no futher part in the match. \u201cFaf sustained an injury [&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":38475,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"inline_featured_image":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[122],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-38473","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\/38473","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=38473"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/blastingskyhawk.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/38473\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":38476,"href":"https:\/\/blastingskyhawk.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/38473\/revisions\/38476"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blastingskyhawk.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/38475"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blastingskyhawk.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=38473"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blastingskyhawk.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=38473"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blastingskyhawk.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=38473"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}