{"id":13193,"date":"2012-08-05T14:07:26","date_gmt":"2012-08-05T12:07:26","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/08\/smith-kallis-add-to-south-africa-injury-concerns\/"},"modified":"2012-08-05T14:07:26","modified_gmt":"2012-08-05T12:07:26","slug":"smith-kallis-add-to-south-africa-injury-concerns","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/press\/smith-kallis-add-to-south-africa-injury-concerns\/","title":{"rendered":"Smith, Kallis add to South Africa injury concerns"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>\t\t<span><\/span><\/p>\n<p>By Richard Sydenham<span><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span class=\"articleLocation\">LEEDS, England<\/span> Aug 5 (Reuters) &#8211; South African all-rounder<br \/>\nJacques Kallis will not bowl on day four of the ongoing second<br \/>\ntest against England because of recurring lower back spasms, a<br \/>\nteam spokeswoman said on Sunday.<\/p>\n<p><span><\/span><\/p>\n<p>Captain Graeme Smith also had his injured left knee strapped<br \/>\nas South Africa grapple with a spate of injuries to their<br \/>\nplayers.<\/p>\n<p><span><\/span><\/p>\n<p>This follows the news that Smith&#8217;s opening partner Alviro<br \/>\nPetersen, who scored 182 in the first innings, had sustained a<br \/>\nminor tear to his hamstring and would need 10 days to recover.<br \/>\nHe is expected to be fit for the third test at Lord&#8217;s though.<\/p>\n<p><span><\/span><\/p>\n<p>Smith injured his knee during the evening session on<br \/>\nSaturday, while chasing a ball to the boundary, which means the<br \/>\nProteas now have three of their top four batsmen all injured to<br \/>\nvarying degrees.<\/p>\n<p><span><\/span><\/p>\n<p>South Africa, leading the three-match series 1-0, scored 419<br \/>\nin their first innings. England resumed on Sunday on 351 for<br \/>\nfive but lost Kevin Pietersen to the second ball of the morning<br \/>\nfor his overnight score of 149. He was out lbw to Morne Morkel.<\/p>\n<p> (Editing by Amlan Chakraborty)<\/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>By Richard Sydenham LEEDS, England Aug 5 (Reuters) &#8211; South African all-rounder Jacques Kallis will not bowl on day four of the ongoing second test against England because of recurring lower back spasms, a team spokeswoman said on Sunday. Captain Graeme Smith also had his injured left knee strapped as South Africa grapple with a [&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-13193","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\/13193","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=13193"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/press\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13193\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/press\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=13193"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/press\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=13193"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/press\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=13193"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}