{"id":13681,"date":"2025-10-24T09:02:21","date_gmt":"2025-10-24T07:02:21","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/jhb-webdevelopers\/channelafrica\/news\/proteas-suffer-blow-as-miller-coetzee-ruled-out-of-pakistan-series\/"},"modified":"2026-02-27T16:26:31","modified_gmt":"2026-02-27T14:26:31","slug":"proteas-suffer-blow-as-miller-coetzee-ruled-out-of-pakistan-series","status":"publish","type":"news","link":"https:\/\/www.channelafrica.co.za\/channelafrica\/news\/proteas-suffer-blow-as-miller-coetzee-ruled-out-of-pakistan-series\/","title":{"rendered":"Proteas suffer blow as Miller, Coetzee ruled out of Pakistan series"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"x_divRplyFwdMsg\">\n<div aria-hidden=\"true\" data-olk-copy-source=\"MessageBody\">The South African cricket team that beat Pakistan by eight wickets in Rawalpindi to square the series earlier today, has received some bad news ahead of the white ball series.<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<div id=\"x_x_ms-outlook-mobile-signature\">\n<div><\/div>\n<div>Stand-in T20 International captain David Miller and fastbowler Gerald Coetzee have been ruled out of the upcoming series in Pakistan.<\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<div>Miller picked up a hamstring strain in the build-up to the T20 series starting in Rawalpindi on Tuesday.<\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<div>Coetzee has suffered a pectoral muscle strain in recent match against Nambia and has been ruled out of both the T20I and three-match One-Day International series.<\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<div>The selectors added batters Matthew Breetzke and the uncapped Tony de Zorzi to the T20I squad which will now be captained by Donovan Ferreira.<\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<div>Dolphins fast bowler, Ottneil Baartman, will replace Coetzee in the ODI squad.<\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<div>&#8211;SABC&#8211;<\/div>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"featured_media":13596,"template":"","meta":{"_acf_changed":false},"news-type":[20],"class_list":["post-13681","news","type-news","status-publish","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","news-type-sport","entry"],"acf":{"short_description":"Miller picked up a hamstring strain in the build-up to the T20 series starting in Rawalpindi on Tuesday.","published_date":null,"news_description":"Miller picked up a hamstring strain in the build-up to the T20 series starting in Rawalpindi on Tuesday.","form_embed":"","author":"","image_caption":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.channelafrica.co.za\/channelafrica\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news\/13681","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.channelafrica.co.za\/channelafrica\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.channelafrica.co.za\/channelafrica\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/news"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.channelafrica.co.za\/channelafrica\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news\/13681\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":18690,"href":"https:\/\/www.channelafrica.co.za\/channelafrica\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news\/13681\/revisions\/18690"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.channelafrica.co.za\/channelafrica\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/13596"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.channelafrica.co.za\/channelafrica\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=13681"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"news-type","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.channelafrica.co.za\/channelafrica\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news-type?post=13681"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}