{"id":12806,"date":"2012-07-27T01:33:56","date_gmt":"2012-07-26T23:33:56","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/07\/cricket-boucher-requires-further-surgery-but-outlook-optimistic\/"},"modified":"2012-07-27T01:33:56","modified_gmt":"2012-07-26T23:33:56","slug":"cricket-boucher-requires-further-surgery-but-outlook-optimistic","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/press\/cricket-boucher-requires-further-surgery-but-outlook-optimistic\/","title":{"rendered":"Cricket-Boucher requires further surgery but outlook optimistic"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>\t\t<span><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span class=\"articleLocation\">JOHANNESBURG, July 26<\/span> (Reuters) &#8211; Doctors are \u201c&#8221;cautiously<br \/>\noptimistic&#8221; that former South Africa wicketkeeper Mark Boucher<br \/>\nwill regain sight in his left eye, they said on Thursday.<span><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span><\/span><\/p>\n<p>Boucher, who was forced to quit cricket after being hit in<br \/>\nthe eye by a bail in the first match of South Africa&#8217;s tour of<br \/>\nEngland this month, underwent his second operation this week.<\/p>\n<p><span><\/span><\/p>\n<p>&#8220;While it is impossible to predict the long-term outcome of<br \/>\nMark&#8217;s eye injury, his medical team are nevertheless cautiously<br \/>\noptimistic that he will have a reasonable recovery of the vision<br \/>\nin his left eye,&#8221; a statement from medics said.<\/p>\n<p><span><\/span><\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Over the next three to six months, Mark will undergo<br \/>\nfurther surgery procedures in an attempt to improve his vision.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p><span><\/span><\/p>\n<p>The 35-year-old played in 147 tests for South Africa and<br \/>\nmanaged 555 dismissals, a world record. <\/p>\n<p> (Reporting by Ken Borland, Editing by Mark Meadows;<br \/>\nmark.meadows@thomsonreuters.com; Reuters Messaging:;<br \/>\nmark.meadows.reuters.com@reuters.net; +44 20 7542 7933; For all<br \/>\nthe latest; Olympic news go to <a href=\"http:\/\/www.reuters.com\/london-olympics-2012\">here<\/a>)<\/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 26 (Reuters) &#8211; Doctors are \u201c&#8221;cautiously optimistic&#8221; that former South Africa wicketkeeper Mark Boucher will regain sight in his left eye, they said on Thursday. Boucher, who was forced to quit cricket after being hit in the eye by a bail in the first match of South Africa&#8217;s tour of England this month, [&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-12806","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\/12806","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=12806"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/press\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12806\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/press\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=12806"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/press\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=12806"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/press\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=12806"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}