{"id":16312,"date":"2012-11-05T08:31:29","date_gmt":"2012-11-05T06:31:29","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/11\/update-2-cricket-watson-ruled-out-of-first-south-africa-test\/"},"modified":"2012-11-05T08:31:29","modified_gmt":"2012-11-05T06:31:29","slug":"update-2-cricket-watson-ruled-out-of-first-south-africa-test","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/press\/update-2-cricket-watson-ruled-out-of-first-south-africa-test\/","title":{"rendered":"UPDATE 2-Cricket-Watson ruled out of first South Africa test"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>\t\t<span><\/span><\/p>\n<p>* Calf strain rules Watson out of test<span><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span><\/span><\/p>\n<p>* Quiney to make debut aged 30<\/p>\n<p><span><\/span><\/p>\n<p>* Arthur confident Ponting will play   (Clarifies injury status after updated Cricket Australia statement)<\/p>\n<p><span><\/span><\/p>\n<p>By Ian Ransom<\/p>\n<p><span><\/span><\/p>\n<p>MELBOURNE, Nov 5 (Reuters) &#8211; Allrounder Shane Watson has been ruled out of the first test against South Africa with a calf strain in a huge blow for Australia&#8217;s hopes of upsetting the top-ranked visitors.<\/p>\n<p><span><\/span><\/p>\n<p>Vice captain Watson injured his left calf playing for New South Wales against Queensland on Saturday and had been a doubt for the test which begins on Friday at the Gabba in Brisbane.<\/p>\n<p><span><\/span><\/p>\n<p>&#8220;We&#8217;re ruling him out now because we think he won&#8217;t be fit enough come Friday,&#8221; Australia coach Mickey Arthur told reporters in Brisbane, where he confirmed Rob Quiney would make his test debut in the 31-year-old&#8217;s absence.<\/p>\n<p><span><\/span><\/p>\n<p>&#8220;We wanted to make a decisive decision pretty early so we could give some real clarity to the team, so unfortunately Shane misses out and Quiney plays.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p><span><\/span><\/p>\n<p>Governing body Cricket Australia earlier reported Watson&#8217;s omission as being due to a hamstring injury, but later changed the diagnosis in an updated statement.<br \/>\n\u00a0 <span class=\"label\"><strong>Continued&#8230;<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>* Calf strain rules Watson out of test * Quiney to make debut aged 30 * Arthur confident Ponting will play (Clarifies injury status after updated Cricket Australia statement) By Ian Ransom MELBOURNE, Nov 5 (Reuters) &#8211; Allrounder Shane Watson has been ruled out of the first test against South Africa with a calf strain [&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-16312","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\/16312","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=16312"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/press\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16312\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/press\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=16312"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/press\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=16312"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/press\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=16312"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}