{"id":11596,"date":"2012-06-18T23:33:31","date_gmt":"2012-06-18T21:33:31","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/06\/rugby-england-captain-robshaw-to-miss-third-south-africa-test\/"},"modified":"2012-06-18T23:33:31","modified_gmt":"2012-06-18T21:33:31","slug":"rugby-england-captain-robshaw-to-miss-third-south-africa-test","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/press\/rugby-england-captain-robshaw-to-miss-third-south-africa-test\/","title":{"rendered":"Rugby-England captain Robshaw to miss third South Africa test"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>\t\t<span><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span class=\"articleLocation\">LONDON, June 18<\/span> (Reuters) &#8211; Dylan Hartley will captain<br \/>\nEngland in Saturday&#8217;s third test against South Africa in Port<br \/>\nElizabeth after Chris Robshaw was ruled out with a cracked bone<br \/>\nin his right thumb, the RFU said  on Monday.<span><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span><\/span><\/p>\n<p>Robshaw suffered the injury in the first test but it was<br \/>\nonly revealed in a scan after he took another knock at the<br \/>\nweekend.<\/p>\n<p><span><\/span><\/p>\n<p>&#8220;I&#8217;m absolutely gutted,&#8221; he said in a statement. &#8220;I&#8217;ve been<br \/>\nvery proud and honoured to lead this group during the Six<br \/>\nNations and on this tour and it&#8217;s a difficult way to end the<br \/>\nseason.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p><span><\/span><\/p>\n<p>Head coach Stuart Lancaster said medical advice was that<br \/>\nRobshaw should not play.<\/p>\n<p><span><\/span><\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Dylan Hartley will captain the side. He has been a key part<br \/>\nof our leadership group and I know he will step up to the task<br \/>\non Saturday,&#8221; he added.<\/p>\n<p><span><\/span><\/p>\n<p>South Africa clinched the three-test series after defeating<br \/>\nEngland 36-27 at Ellis Park in Johannesburg in the second test<br \/>\non Saturday.<\/p>\n<p><span><\/span><\/p>\n<p>England will also be without scrumhalf Ben Youngs due to a<br \/>\nshoulder injury.<\/p>\n<p> (Reporting by Alan Baldwin, editing by Pritha Sarkar)<\/p>\n<p><span><\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"copyright\">\n<p>         \t\t\u00a9 Thomson Reuters 2012 All rights reserved<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>LONDON, June 18 (Reuters) &#8211; Dylan Hartley will captain England in Saturday&#8217;s third test against South Africa in Port Elizabeth after Chris Robshaw was ruled out with a cracked bone in his right thumb, the RFU said on Monday. Robshaw suffered the injury in the first test but it was only revealed in a scan [&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-11596","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\/11596","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=11596"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/press\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11596\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/press\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=11596"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/press\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=11596"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/press\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=11596"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}