{"id":6421,"date":"2011-12-25T00:52:12","date_gmt":"2011-12-24T22:52:12","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/12\/cricket-philander-under-injury-cloud\/"},"modified":"2011-12-25T00:52:12","modified_gmt":"2011-12-24T22:52:12","slug":"cricket-philander-under-injury-cloud","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/press\/cricket-philander-under-injury-cloud\/","title":{"rendered":"Cricket-Philander under injury cloud"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>\t\t<span><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span class=\"articleLocation\">DURBAN<\/span> Dec 24 (Reuters) &#8211; Vernon Philander, South<br \/>\nAfrica&#8217;s latest fast bowling sensation, had his participation in<br \/>\nthe second test against Sri Lanka thrown into doubt after he<br \/>\npulled up with a knee injury in Durban on Saturday.<span><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span><\/span><\/p>\n<p>Philander has enjoyed a remarkable start to his test career,<br \/>\ntaking 24 wickets in three tests, but the 26-year-old injured<br \/>\nhis knee during a net session.<\/p>\n<p><span><\/span><\/p>\n<p>Despite the injury Proteas team management are confident<br \/>\nthat Philander will be fit for the second test against Sri Lanka<br \/>\ndue to start in Durban on Monday.<\/p>\n<p><span><\/span><\/p>\n<p>&#8220;He suffered a mild strain to the medial side of his left<br \/>\nknee while bowling today. The physio classified it as a mild<br \/>\nstrain,&#8221; South Africa team manager Mohammed Moosajee told<br \/>\nreporters shortly after the injury occurred.<\/p>\n<p><span><\/span><\/p>\n<p>&#8220;He will be treated overnight and he will bowl tomorrow. If<br \/>\nanything untoward happens we will decide from there. But at the<br \/>\nmoment we are still confident he will be fit for the test,&#8221;<br \/>\nadded Moosajee.<\/p>\n<p><span><\/span><\/p>\n<p>If Philander fails to recover from the injury it could<br \/>\nsignal a debut for 21-year-old fast bowler Marchant de Lange,<br \/>\nwho has played in just 14 first-class matches.<\/p>\n<p><span><\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"copyright\">\n<p>         \t\t\u00a9 Thomson Reuters 2011 All rights reserved<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>DURBAN Dec 24 (Reuters) &#8211; Vernon Philander, South Africa&#8217;s latest fast bowling sensation, had his participation in the second test against Sri Lanka thrown into doubt after he pulled up with a knee injury in Durban on Saturday. Philander has enjoyed a remarkable start to his test career, taking 24 wickets in three tests, but [&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-6421","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\/6421","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=6421"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/press\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6421\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/press\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6421"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/press\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6421"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/press\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6421"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}