{"id":12306,"date":"2012-07-11T12:28:28","date_gmt":"2012-07-11T10:28:28","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/07\/cricket-tsolekile-replaces-boucher-in-south-africa-squad\/"},"modified":"2012-07-11T12:28:28","modified_gmt":"2012-07-11T10:28:28","slug":"cricket-tsolekile-replaces-boucher-in-south-africa-squad","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/press\/cricket-tsolekile-replaces-boucher-in-south-africa-squad\/","title":{"rendered":"Cricket-Tsolekile replaces Boucher in South Africa squad"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>\t\t<span><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span class=\"articleLocation\">JOHANNESBURG, July 11<\/span> (Reuters) &#8211; Stumper Thami Tsolekile<br \/>\nwill replace the retired Mark Boucher in South Africa&#8217;s test<br \/>\nsquad on the tour of England, Cricket South Africa (CSA)<br \/>\nannounced on Wednesday.<span><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span><\/span><\/p>\n<p>Boucher was forced to retire from international cricket on<br \/>\nTuesday after suffering a lacerated eyeball during South<br \/>\nAfrica&#8217;s tour match against Somerset.<\/p>\n<p><span><\/span><\/p>\n<p>Always under Boucher&#8217;s shadow, 31-year-old Tsolekile made<br \/>\nhis test his debut against India in 2004 but has been out of the<br \/>\nsquad since playing his third and last against England in the<br \/>\nsame year.<\/p>\n<p><span><\/span><\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Thami has done very well both the Lions (his South African<br \/>\nfranchise) and South Africa A for a couple of seasons,<br \/>\nculminating in his South African record eight catches in an<br \/>\ninnings this past week,&#8221; CSA selection convener Andrew Hudson<br \/>\nsaid in a statement.<\/p>\n<p><span><\/span><\/p>\n<p>\u201c&#8221;With AB de Villiers also able to fill the role of<br \/>\nwicketkeeper in the test series it gives the tour selectors<br \/>\noptions in this important position,&#8221; he added.<\/p>\n<p><span><\/span><\/p>\n<p>South Africa will play three tests against England with the<br \/>\nfirst test set to start on July 19 at The Oval in London.<\/p>\n<p> (Reporting by Jason Humphries in Durban; editing by Amlan<br \/>\nChakraborty)<\/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>JOHANNESBURG, July 11 (Reuters) &#8211; Stumper Thami Tsolekile will replace the retired Mark Boucher in South Africa&#8217;s test squad on the tour of England, Cricket South Africa (CSA) announced on Wednesday. Boucher was forced to retire from international cricket on Tuesday after suffering a lacerated eyeball during South Africa&#8217;s tour match against Somerset. Always under [&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-12306","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\/12306","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=12306"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/press\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12306\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/press\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=12306"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/press\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=12306"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/press\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=12306"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}