{"id":9609,"date":"2012-04-04T03:48:55","date_gmt":"2012-04-04T01:48:55","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/04\/cricket-s-africa-captain-smith-to-miss-ipl-due-to-ankle-surgery\/"},"modified":"2012-04-04T03:48:55","modified_gmt":"2012-04-04T01:48:55","slug":"cricket-s-africa-captain-smith-to-miss-ipl-due-to-ankle-surgery","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/press\/cricket-s-africa-captain-smith-to-miss-ipl-due-to-ankle-surgery\/","title":{"rendered":"Cricket-S.Africa captain Smith to miss IPL due to ankle surgery"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>\t\t<span><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span class=\"articleLocation\">CAPE TOWN, April 3<\/span> (Reuters) &#8211; South Africa&#8217;s test captain<br \/>\nGraeme Smith will miss the Indian Premier League (IPL)<br \/>\ntournament that gets underway this week after undergoing ankle<br \/>\nsurgery on Tuesday.<span><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span><\/span><\/p>\n<p>A Cricket South Africa (CSA) statement said the opening<br \/>\nbatsman had his operation now to ensure he was fully fit for the<br \/>\ntour to England in July.<\/p>\n<p><span><\/span><\/p>\n<p>&#8220;My ankle has been troubling me for some time,&#8221; said Smith<br \/>\nwho is expected to be out of action for up to 10 weeks.<\/p>\n<p><span><\/span><\/p>\n<p>&#8220;I&#8217;m very disappointed to be missing out on the IPL this<br \/>\nyear. I was looking forward to my second season with Pune<br \/>\nWarriors.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p><span><\/span><\/p>\n<p>(Writing by Ken Borland in Johannesburg, editing by Tony<br \/>\nJimenez)<\/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>CAPE TOWN, April 3 (Reuters) &#8211; South Africa&#8217;s test captain Graeme Smith will miss the Indian Premier League (IPL) tournament that gets underway this week after undergoing ankle surgery on Tuesday. A Cricket South Africa (CSA) statement said the opening batsman had his operation now to ensure he was fully fit for the tour to [&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-9609","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\/9609","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=9609"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/press\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9609\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/press\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=9609"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/press\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=9609"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/press\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=9609"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}