{"id":11379,"date":"2012-06-12T11:11:01","date_gmt":"2012-06-12T09:11:01","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/06\/update-3-rugby-england-fullback-brown-ruled-out-of-test-series\/"},"modified":"2012-06-12T11:11:01","modified_gmt":"2012-06-12T09:11:01","slug":"update-3-rugby-england-fullback-brown-ruled-out-of-test-series","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/press\/update-3-rugby-england-fullback-brown-ruled-out-of-test-series\/","title":{"rendered":"UPDATE 3-Rugby-England fullback Brown ruled out of test series"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>\t\t<span><\/span><\/p>\n<p>* England fullback Brown has fractured thumb<span><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span><\/span><\/p>\n<p>* Abendanon joins squad as replacement<\/p>\n<p><span><\/span><\/p>\n<p>* South Africa&#8217;s Kirchner to miss second test<\/p>\n<p> (Adds Lancaster quotes)<\/p>\n<p><span><\/span><\/p>\n<p>JOHANNESBURG, June 11 (Reuters) &#8211; England fullback Mike<br \/>\nBrown has been ruled out of the three-test series against South<br \/>\nAfrica with a fractured thumb and will be replaced by Bath&#8217;s<br \/>\nNick Abendanon, the team management said on Monday.<\/p>\n<p><span><\/span><\/p>\n<p>Abendanon, 25, has already joined the squad ahead of the<br \/>\nsecond test against the Springboks on Saturday in Johannesburg,<br \/>\nwhere he attended the weekend wedding of Bath team mate Pieter<br \/>\nDixon.<\/p>\n<p><span><\/span><\/p>\n<p>South Africa lost their fullback Zane Kirchner on Monday for<br \/>\nthe second test. Kirchner injured his knee in the first test in<br \/>\nDurban last weekend and will be replaced by Stormers utility<br \/>\nback Gio Aplon.<\/p>\n<p><span><\/span><\/p>\n<p>Abendanon was born in Johannesburg and made his test debut<br \/>\nin Pretoria against the Springboks in 2007. He won his second<br \/>\nand last test cap against France at Twickenham later that year.<br \/>\nBrown will return home for an operation on his thumb.<\/p>\n<p><span><\/span><\/p>\n<p>England&#8217;s backline will have to be further shuffled for the<br \/>\nsecond test after centre Brad Barritt, another South<br \/>\nAfrican-born player, underwent a minor operation at the weekend<br \/>\nfor a  lacerated eyeball.<\/p>\n<p><span><\/span><\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Barritt won&#8217;t figure in this week&#8217;s games, but will join us<br \/>\n\u00a0 <span class=\"label\"><strong>Continued&#8230;<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>* England fullback Brown has fractured thumb * Abendanon joins squad as replacement * South Africa&#8217;s Kirchner to miss second test (Adds Lancaster quotes) JOHANNESBURG, June 11 (Reuters) &#8211; England fullback Mike Brown has been ruled out of the three-test series against South Africa with a fractured thumb and will be replaced by Bath&#8217;s Nick [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_genesis_hide_title":false,"_genesis_hide_breadcrumbs":false,"_genesis_hide_singular_image":false,"_genesis_hide_footer_widgets":false,"_genesis_custom_body_class":"","_genesis_custom_post_class":"","_genesis_layout":"","ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[1],"tags":[830,2370,183],"class_list":{"0":"post-11379","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-south-africa","7":"tag-news","8":"tag-reuters","9":"tag-south-africa-2","10":"entry"},"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/press\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11379","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/press\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/press\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/press\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/press\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=11379"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/press\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11379\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/press\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=11379"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/press\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=11379"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/press\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=11379"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}