{"id":11597,"date":"2012-06-18T23:33:32","date_gmt":"2012-06-18T21:33:32","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/06\/rugby-pietersen-added-to-south-africa-squad-for-england-series\/"},"modified":"2012-06-18T23:33:32","modified_gmt":"2012-06-18T21:33:32","slug":"rugby-pietersen-added-to-south-africa-squad-for-england-series","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/press\/rugby-pietersen-added-to-south-africa-squad-for-england-series\/","title":{"rendered":"Rugby-Pietersen added to South Africa squad for England series"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>\t\t<span><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span class=\"articleLocation\">PORT ELIZABETH, South Africa, June 18<\/span> (Reuters) &#8211; Uncapped<br \/>\nfullback Joe Pietersen has been added to the Springbok squad<br \/>\nahead of the third test against England, the South African Rugby<br \/>\nUnion (SARU) announced on Monday.<span><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span><\/span><\/p>\n<p>The 28-year-old Pietersen, who plies his trade with South<br \/>\nAfrican Super Rugby franchise the Stormers, has been added to<br \/>\nthe squad as cover for Patrick Lambie, who suffered an ankle<br \/>\ninjury in the Springboks 36-27 victory over England in the<br \/>\nsecond test in Johannesburg.<\/p>\n<p><span><\/span><\/p>\n<p>The hosts, who hold an unassailable 2-0 lead in the<br \/>\nthree-test series, are already without Zane Kirchner, who played<br \/>\nfullback in the first test before being ruled out of the series<br \/>\nwith a knee injury, while centre Frans Steyn will miss the third<br \/>\ntest as he will be getting married.<\/p>\n<p><span><\/span><\/p>\n<p>Fullback Lambie and flank Willem Alberts, who injured knee<br \/>\nligaments in the second test, have not been ruled out of<br \/>\nSaturday&#8217;s third test and a final decision on their availability<br \/>\nwill be made on Wednesday.<\/p>\n<p><span><\/span><\/p>\n<p>\u201c&#8221;Joe has always been part of our plans and also attended<br \/>\nour final planning camp in Durban shortly before the England<br \/>\nseries started,&#8221; Springbok coach Heyneke Meyer said in a<br \/>\nstatement.<\/p>\n<p><span><\/span><\/p>\n<p>&#8220;\u201cInjuries are part of the game and something you can&#8217;t plan<br \/>\nfor, but we always knew Frans was not going to be available for<br \/>\nthis test. Joe knows our systems and game plans and I&#8217;m sure he<br \/>\nwill slot in easily.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p><span><\/span><\/p>\n<p>England&#8217;s tour of South Africa concludes with the third test<br \/>\nin Port Elizabeth on Saturday.<\/p>\n<p> (Reporting by Jason Humphries in Durban, editing by Pritha<br \/>\nSarkar)<\/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>PORT ELIZABETH, South Africa, June 18 (Reuters) &#8211; Uncapped fullback Joe Pietersen has been added to the Springbok squad ahead of the third test against England, the South African Rugby Union (SARU) announced on Monday. The 28-year-old Pietersen, who plies his trade with South African Super Rugby franchise the Stormers, has been added to the [&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-11597","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\/11597","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=11597"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/press\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11597\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/press\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=11597"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/press\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=11597"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/press\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=11597"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}