{"id":72970,"date":"2019-10-23T11:17:17","date_gmt":"2019-10-23T11:17:17","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blastingskyhawk.com\/?p=72970"},"modified":"2019-10-23T11:17:18","modified_gmt":"2019-10-23T11:17:18","slug":"leaving-with-mental-scars-faf-rues-lack-of-planning","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blastingskyhawk.com\/english\/leaving-with-mental-scars-faf-rues-lack-of-planning\/","title":{"rendered":"Leaving with mental scars, Faf rues lack of planning"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>Humiliated by a ruthless India, the South African team will go back with \u201cmental scars\u201d as skipper Faf du Plessis rued a lack of vision that impeded phasing out of their great players. \u201cA tour like this reveals that there&#8217;s a lot of mental scars that can happen and then obviously it&#8217;s difficult to come out of that hole,\u201d Du Plessis said after they conceded their heaviest defeat to India in the third Test. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>\u201cIt&#8217;s just a relentless, ruthlessness the way they put big totals on the board every time. The effect it has on you mentally as a batting line-up, it takes a lot of energy and it takes a lot of toll and that&#8217;s why you could see towards the end our batting was mentally weak. You don&#8217;t want to be mentally weak,\u201d he said. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Blaming Cricket South Africa, the visiting skipper further said the tour exposed the lack of planning as they did not think for future after greats like Hashim Amla and AB de Villiers retired.<\/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>Humiliated by a ruthless India, the South African team will go back with \u201cmental scars\u201d as skipper Faf du Plessis rued a lack of vision that impeded phasing out of their great players. \u201cA tour like this reveals that there&#8217;s a lot of mental scars that can happen and then obviously it&#8217;s difficult to come [&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":72971,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"inline_featured_image":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[122],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-72970","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\/72970","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=72970"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/blastingskyhawk.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/72970\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":72972,"href":"https:\/\/blastingskyhawk.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/72970\/revisions\/72972"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blastingskyhawk.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/72971"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blastingskyhawk.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=72970"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blastingskyhawk.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=72970"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blastingskyhawk.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=72970"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}