{"id":12241,"date":"2012-07-10T00:25:14","date_gmt":"2012-07-09T22:25:14","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/07\/cricket-boucher-needs-surgery-after-bail-cuts-his-eyeball\/"},"modified":"2012-07-10T00:25:14","modified_gmt":"2012-07-09T22:25:14","slug":"cricket-boucher-needs-surgery-after-bail-cuts-his-eyeball","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/press\/cricket-boucher-needs-surgery-after-bail-cuts-his-eyeball\/","title":{"rendered":"Cricket-Boucher needs surgery after bail cuts his eyeball"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>\t\t<span><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span class=\"articleLocation\">July 9<\/span> (Reuters) &#8211; South Africa wicketkeeper Mark Boucher<br \/>\nwill undergo surgery after suffering a cut to his left eyeball<br \/>\nin a warm-up match against Somerset in Taunton on Monday.<span><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span><\/span><\/p>\n<p>Boucher was injured when a delivery from leg-spinner Imran<br \/>\nTahir flicked the bail into his face, forcing the 35-year-old<br \/>\noff the field with blood coming from his eye.<\/p>\n<p><span><\/span><\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Mark suffered a laceration to the sclera of his left eye,&#8221;<br \/>\nteam manager Mohammad Moosajee told the Cricket South Africa<br \/>\nwebsite (www.cricket.co.za).<\/p>\n<p><span><\/span><\/p>\n<p>&#8220;He will undergo emergency exploratory surgery in the next<br \/>\nfew hours, after which the ophthalmologist will be able to<br \/>\ndetermine the extent of the damage,&#8221; said Moosajee, adding that<br \/>\nthe appointment was scheduled for 1800 local time (1700 GMT).<\/p>\n<p><span><\/span><\/p>\n<p>Boucher, who was replaced by AB de Villiers behind the<br \/>\nstumps, could be a doubt for the three-match test series against<br \/>\ntop-ranked England starting on July 19 at The Oval in London.<\/p>\n<p> (Writing by Tom Pilcher, Editing by Clare Fallon)<\/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>July 9 (Reuters) &#8211; South Africa wicketkeeper Mark Boucher will undergo surgery after suffering a cut to his left eyeball in a warm-up match against Somerset in Taunton on Monday. Boucher was injured when a delivery from leg-spinner Imran Tahir flicked the bail into his face, forcing the 35-year-old off the field with blood coming [&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-12241","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\/12241","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=12241"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/press\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12241\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/press\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=12241"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/press\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=12241"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/press\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=12241"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}