{"id":14787,"date":"2012-09-19T16:39:46","date_gmt":"2012-09-19T14:39:46","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/09\/update-1-cricket-after-new-zealand-s-africa-grapple-with-illness\/"},"modified":"2012-09-19T16:39:46","modified_gmt":"2012-09-19T14:39:46","slug":"update-1-cricket-after-new-zealand-s-africa-grapple-with-illness","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/press\/update-1-cricket-after-new-zealand-s-africa-grapple-with-illness\/","title":{"rendered":"UPDATE 1-Cricket-After New Zealand, S Africa grapple with illness"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>\t\t<span><\/span><\/p>\n<p>(Updates with Albie Morkel&#8217;s injury)<span><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span><\/span><\/p>\n<p>* 5 South African player struck by illness<\/p>\n<p><span><\/span><\/p>\n<p>* Albie Morkel doubtful with back spasm<\/p>\n<p><span><\/span><\/p>\n<p>HAMBANTOTA, Sri Lanka, Sept 19 (Reuters) &#8211; Five South African players have fallen ill but are expected to be fit for the team&#8217;s first Twenty20 World Cup match against Zimbabwe on Thursday, the Proteas team manager said.<\/p>\n<p><span><\/span><\/p>\n<p>&#8220;We have a few guys who&#8217;ve gone down with viral infection, vomiting and diarrhoea but I am happy to say that they are on the mend,&#8221; team manager Mohammed Moosajee said on Wednesday.<\/p>\n<p><span><\/span><\/p>\n<p>&#8220;I am hopeful come tomorrow, all 15 will be fit to take the field,&#8221; he said while declining to identify the players struck by illness.<\/p>\n<p><span><\/span><\/p>\n<p>On Monday, three members of New Zealand&#8217;s World Twenty20 team  &#8211; Tim Southee, Rob Nicol and Daniel Vettori &#8211; suffered stomach trouble.<\/p>\n<p><span><\/span><\/p>\n<p>For South Africa, allrounder Albie Morkel is also doubtful for Thursday&#8217;s match because of a back problem.<\/p>\n<p><span><\/span><\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Albie will be having a fitness test tomorrow morning,&#8221; said Moosajee.<br \/>\n\u00a0 <span class=\"label\"><strong>Continued&#8230;<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>(Updates with Albie Morkel&#8217;s injury) * 5 South African player struck by illness * Albie Morkel doubtful with back spasm HAMBANTOTA, Sri Lanka, Sept 19 (Reuters) &#8211; Five South African players have fallen ill but are expected to be fit for the team&#8217;s first Twenty20 World Cup match against Zimbabwe on Thursday, the Proteas team [&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-14787","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\/14787","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=14787"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/press\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14787\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/press\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=14787"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/press\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=14787"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/press\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=14787"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}