{"id":20265,"date":"2013-06-07T21:43:13","date_gmt":"2013-06-07T19:43:13","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/morne-morkel-ruled-out-of-champions-trophy\/"},"modified":"2013-06-07T21:43:13","modified_gmt":"2013-06-07T19:43:13","slug":"morne-morkel-ruled-out-of-champions-trophy","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/press\/morne-morkel-ruled-out-of-champions-trophy\/","title":{"rendered":"Morne Morkel ruled out of Champions Trophy"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>\t    <a href=\"http:\/\/commons.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/File:Morne_Morkel.jpg\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"lightbox[4392]\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"zemanta-img-inserted zemanta-img-configured\" title=\"Morne Morkel at a training session at the Adel...\" alt=\"Morne Morkel at a training session at the Adel...\" src=\"http:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/press\/wp-content\/plugins\/rss-poster\/cache\/17e8b_300px-Morne_Morkel.jpg\" width=\"300\" height=\"531\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-caption-text\">Morne Morkel at a training session at the Adelaide Oval (Photo credit: Wikipedia)<\/p>\n<p><a class=\"zem_slink\" title=\"Morn\u00e9 Morkel\" href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Morn%C3%A9_Morkel\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"wikipedia\">Morne Morkel<\/a> is out of the remainder of Champions Trophy 2013 due to an injury to his left quad, <a class=\"zem_slink\" title=\"Cricket South Africa\" href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Cricket_South_Africa\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"wikipedia\">Cricket South Africa<\/a> (CSA) said on Friday.<\/p>\n<p>Morkel, who sustained an injury during the team\u2019s opening match against India in Cardiff on Thursday (June 6), will be replaced by Chris Morris. The Event Technical Committee of Champions Trophy has approved Morkel\u2019s replacement.<\/p>\n<p>Right-arm fast bowler Morris had a good tournament with Chennai Super Kings in the Indian Premier League. He will leave South Africa this evening to join his team-mates in England. Morris, 26, has not played ODIs and has featured in 2 T20 Internationals for <a class=\"zem_slink\" title=\"South Africa national cricket team\" href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/South_Africa_national_cricket_team\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"wikipedia\">the Proteas<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Morkel could not complete his quota of overs against India and pulled out during his 7th over. South Africa lost that game by 26 runs. South Africa were also without <a class=\"zem_slink\" title=\"Dale Steyn\" href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Dale_Steyn\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"wikipedia\">Dale Steyn<\/a> in the opener. 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Morkel, who sustained an injury during the team\u2019s opening match against India in Cardiff on Thursday [&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":[3258,830,885],"class_list":{"0":"post-20265","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-south-africa","7":"tag-mysport","8":"tag-news","9":"tag-sport","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\/20265","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=20265"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/press\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20265\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/press\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=20265"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/press\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=20265"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/press\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=20265"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}