{"id":16291,"date":"2012-11-04T20:31:12","date_gmt":"2012-11-04T18:31:12","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/11\/cricket-australia-name-rob-quiney-as-cover-for-injured-watson\/"},"modified":"2012-11-04T20:31:12","modified_gmt":"2012-11-04T18:31:12","slug":"cricket-australia-name-rob-quiney-as-cover-for-injured-watson","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/press\/cricket-australia-name-rob-quiney-as-cover-for-injured-watson\/","title":{"rendered":"Cricket-Australia name Rob Quiney as cover for injured Watson"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>\t\t<span><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span class=\"articleLocatio\/spann\">Nov 4 (Reuters) &#8211; Australia have added left-handed batsman Rob Quiney to their squad as cover for all-rounder Shane Watson for the first test against South Africa.<span><\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span><\/span><\/p>\n<p>Watson injured his calf playing for New South Wales against Queensland on Saturday and is a doubt for the test, which begins on Friday at the Gabba in Brisbane.<\/p>\n<p><span><\/span><\/p>\n<p>&#8220;A decision on Shane is likely to be made earlier rather than later,&#8221; national selector John Inverarity said in a statement on Sunday.<\/p>\n<p><span><\/span><\/p>\n<p>Former skipper Ricky Ponting is also recovering from a hamstring niggle.<\/p>\n<p><span><\/span><\/p>\n<p>Victorian opener Quiney scored 85 in a practice match against South Africa to stay on course for a potential test debut against the world&#8217;s top-ranked side.<\/p>\n<p><span><\/span><\/p>\n<p>&#8220;His 85 from 113 balls against the strong South African attack demonstrated a good range of shots and a sound technique,&#8221; Inverarity said.<\/p>\n<p><span><\/span><\/p>\n<p>&#8220;He is in good shape at the moment and he is ready to grasp his opportunity should he get the nod for Friday.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p><span><\/span><\/p>\n<p>Quiney said he was up for the challenge of taking on South Africa&#8217;s formidable pace attack, which is led by Dale Steyn.<\/p>\n<p><span><\/span><\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Hopefully Shane can get up and be right because he&#8217;s such an important player for the team but I&#8217;ll obviously be training and preparing to be ready to go if he doesn&#8217;t get up,&#8221; said the 30-year-old.   (Reporting by Amlan Chakraborty in new Delhi; Editing by Peter Rutherford)<\/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>Nov 4 (Reuters) &#8211; Australia have added left-handed batsman Rob Quiney to their squad as cover for all-rounder Shane Watson for the first test against South Africa. Watson injured his calf playing for New South Wales against Queensland on Saturday and is a doubt for the test, which begins on Friday at the Gabba in [&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-16291","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\/16291","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=16291"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/press\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16291\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/press\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=16291"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/press\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=16291"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/press\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=16291"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}