{"id":6839,"date":"2012-01-08T20:28:28","date_gmt":"2012-01-08T18:28:28","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/01\/cricket-morkel-called-up-to-safricas-odi-squad\/"},"modified":"2012-01-08T20:28:28","modified_gmt":"2012-01-08T18:28:28","slug":"cricket-morkel-called-up-to-safricas-odi-squad","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/press\/cricket-morkel-called-up-to-safricas-odi-squad\/","title":{"rendered":"Cricket-Morkel called up to SAfrica&#8217;s ODI squad"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>\t\t<span><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span class=\"articleLocation\">JOHANNESBURG<\/span> Jan 8 (Reuters) &#8211; All-rounder Albie<br \/>\nMorkel has been called up to South Africa&#8217;s one-day<br \/>\ninternational (ODI) squad as an injury replacement for the<br \/>\nfive-match series against Sri Lanka, Cricket South Africa<br \/>\nannounced on Sunday.<span><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span><\/span><\/p>\n<p>Morkel replaces uncapped all-rounder Dean Elgar in the<br \/>\n14-man squad after Elgar pulled out with a knee ligament injury.<\/p>\n<p><span><\/span><\/p>\n<p>The 30-year-old Morkel has scored 679 runs in his 51 ODIs<br \/>\nand last represented his country in an ODI when he turned out<br \/>\nagainst Pakistan in Abu Dhabi in November 2010.<\/p>\n<p><span><\/span><\/p>\n<p>The first game of the series against Sri Lanka takes place<br \/>\nin Paarl on Jan. 11 with the final match scheduled for January<br \/>\n22 in Johannesburg.<\/p>\n<p><span><\/span><\/p>\n<p>Revised South Africa squad:<\/p>\n<p><span><\/span><\/p>\n<p>Hashim Amla, Johan Botha, AB de Villiers (capt), JP Duminy,<br \/>\nFrancois du Plessis, Jacques Kallis, Rory Kleinveldt, Albie<br \/>\nMorkel, Morne Morkel, Wayne Parnell, Robin Peterson, Graeme<br \/>\nSmith, Dale Steyn, Lonwabo Tsotsobe.<br \/>\n(Jason Humphries in East London; Editing by Peter Rutherford)<\/p>\n<p><span><\/span><\/p>\n<p>Please double-click on the newslink:<\/p>\n<p><span><\/span><\/p>\n<p>for more cricket stories<\/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>JOHANNESBURG Jan 8 (Reuters) &#8211; All-rounder Albie Morkel has been called up to South Africa&#8217;s one-day international (ODI) squad as an injury replacement for the five-match series against Sri Lanka, Cricket South Africa announced on Sunday. Morkel replaces uncapped all-rounder Dean Elgar in the 14-man squad after Elgar pulled out with a knee ligament injury. [&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-6839","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\/6839","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=6839"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/press\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6839\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/press\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6839"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/press\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6839"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/press\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6839"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}