{"id":42524,"date":"2018-01-07T20:55:35","date_gmt":"2018-01-07T15:55:35","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/tns.world\/?p=42524"},"modified":"2018-01-07T20:55:35","modified_gmt":"2018-01-07T15:55:35","slug":"aging-south-african-bowling-spearhead-styne-likely-to-miss-rest-of-series-against-india-due-to-freakish-injury","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/tns.world\/?p=42524","title":{"rendered":"Aging South African bowling spearhead Styne likely to miss rest of series against India due to \u2018\u2019 freakish\u201d injury"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>CAPE TOWN, Jan 07(TNS):<\/strong> Aging South African bowling spearhead Dale Steyn is likely to miss the rest of the Test series against India after what was described as a &#8220;freakish&#8221; injury on the second day of the first Test at Newlands on Saturday.<\/p>\n<p>It was yet another injury setback for Steyn, who was playing his first match in more than a year after suffering a fractured shoulder in Australia in November 2016.<\/p>\n<p>Team manager and doctor Mohammed Moosajee said what he described as a &#8220;freakish&#8221; injury was unrelated to bowling workload or being match ready after his long lay-off.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;He was in his delivery stride and landed awkwardly in the foot holes,&#8221; said Moosajee. &#8220;This caused a significant strain to the foot, leading to tissue damage on the underside of the foot.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Moosajee said the type of issue usually needed a recovery period of four to six weeks, which would rule him out of the rest of the match as well as the two remaining Test matches.<\/p>\n<p>Steyn had taken two wickets for 51 runs in the first innings, taking his career total of Test wickets to 419, two short of Shaun Pollock s all-time South African record.<\/p>\n<p>Steyn, 34, has played in only six of South Africa s most recent 27 Test matches. He has broken down in four of them.<\/p>\n<p>He suffered a groin injury in the first Test of a series in India in November 2016, then had a shoulder injury against England in December that year.<\/p>\n<p>He played in two Tests against New Zealand in August 2016 before his more serious shoulder injury in Australia.<\/p>\n<p>Courtesy AFP<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>CAPE TOWN, Jan 07(TNS): Aging South African bowling spearhead Dale Steyn is likely to miss the rest of the Test series against India after what was described as a &#8220;freakish&#8221; injury on the second day of the first Test at Newlands on Saturday. It was yet another injury setback for Steyn, who was playing his [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":42525,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[20],"tags":[330],"class_list":["post-42524","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-sports","tag-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/tns.world\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/42524","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/tns.world\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/tns.world\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tns.world\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tns.world\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=42524"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/tns.world\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/42524\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":42526,"href":"https:\/\/tns.world\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/42524\/revisions\/42526"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tns.world\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/42525"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/tns.world\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=42524"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tns.world\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=42524"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tns.world\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=42524"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}