{"id":16313,"date":"2012-11-05T08:31:32","date_gmt":"2012-11-05T06:31:32","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/11\/cricket-watson-ruled-out-of-first-south-africa-test\/"},"modified":"2012-11-05T08:31:32","modified_gmt":"2012-11-05T06:31:32","slug":"cricket-watson-ruled-out-of-first-south-africa-test","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/press\/cricket-watson-ruled-out-of-first-south-africa-test\/","title":{"rendered":"Cricket-Watson ruled out of first South Africa test"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>\t\t<span><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span class=\"articleLocation\">MELBOURNE<\/span> Nov 5 (Reuters) &#8211; Allrounder Shane Watson has been ruled out of Australia&#8217;s first test against South Africa with a leg injury, Cricket Australia (CA) said on Monday.<span><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span><\/span><\/p>\n<p>Watson appeared to injure 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;(Australia coach) Mickey Arthur today advised Rob Quiney will replace Watson,&#8221; CA said in a brief statement on its website (www.cricket.com.au), without providing further details.<\/p>\n<p><span><\/span><\/p>\n<p>Left-handed batsman Quiney had been named as cover for Watson on Sunday.<\/p>\n<p><span><\/span><\/p>\n<p>Opener Quiney comes into the three-test series in good form after scoring 85 for Australia A against South Africa last week.<\/p>\n<p><span><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span><\/span><\/p>\n<p>(Reporting by Ian Ransom; Editing by Greg Stutchbury)<\/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>MELBOURNE Nov 5 (Reuters) &#8211; Allrounder Shane Watson has been ruled out of Australia&#8217;s first test against South Africa with a leg injury, Cricket Australia (CA) said on Monday. Watson appeared to injure his left calf playing for New South Wales against Queensland on Saturday and had been a doubt for the test which begins [&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-16313","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\/16313","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=16313"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/press\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16313\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/press\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=16313"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/press\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=16313"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/press\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=16313"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}