{"id":15980,"date":"2025-11-24T08:16:13","date_gmt":"2025-11-24T06:16:13","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/jhb-webdevelopers\/channelafrica\/news\/proteas-centurion-had-given-up-on-playing-test-cricket-again\/"},"modified":"2026-02-27T16:28:02","modified_gmt":"2026-02-27T14:28:02","slug":"proteas-centurion-had-given-up-on-playing-test-cricket-again","status":"publish","type":"news","link":"https:\/\/www.channelafrica.co.za\/channelafrica\/news\/proteas-centurion-had-given-up-on-playing-test-cricket-again\/","title":{"rendered":"Proteas centurion\u00a0&#8216;had given up on playing Test cricket again&#8217;"},"content":{"rendered":"<div>\n<p class=\"x_MsoNormal\">Muthusamy scored his maiden hundred in the longest format in the second match against India, helping the team to a healthy 489 first innings total in Guwahati.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<div>\n<p class=\"x_MsoNormal\">He says after being on the wrong side of a 3-0 whitewash against the same nation six years ago, opportunities to play were few and far between for a spinning all-rounder.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<div>\n<p class=\"x_MsoNormal\">It&#8217;s tough being a spin all rounder in SA. Conditions are a lot different to the sub-continent, but when we get the opportunity to play in this part of the world, we really relish that challenge.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<div>\n<p class=\"x_MsoNormal\">&#8220;My journey has been unique to say the least. Got a taste of international cricket in 2019, went back into the wilderness . There were times I wasn&#8217;t sure if I was ever going to play test cricket again,&#8221; he said.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<div>\n<p class=\"x_MsoNormal\">&#8211;ChannelAfrica&#8211;<\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"featured_media":15981,"template":"","meta":{"_acf_changed":false},"news-type":[20],"class_list":["post-15980","news","type-news","status-publish","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","news-type-sport","entry"],"acf":{"short_description":"Proteas centurion,\u00a0Senuran Muthusamy has revealed that he had given up on playing Test cricket again\u00a0after making his debut for\u00a0South Africa (SA)\u00a0back in 2019, and was not selected again for a few years","published_date":"2025-11-24 00:00:00","news_description":"Proteas centurion,\u00a0Senuran Muthusamy has revealed that he had given up on playing Test cricket again\u00a0after making his debut for\u00a0South Africa (SA)\u00a0back in 2019, and was not selected again for a few years","form_embed":"","author":"","image_caption":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.channelafrica.co.za\/channelafrica\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news\/15980","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\/15980\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":19986,"href":"https:\/\/www.channelafrica.co.za\/channelafrica\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news\/15980\/revisions\/19986"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.channelafrica.co.za\/channelafrica\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/15981"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.channelafrica.co.za\/channelafrica\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=15980"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"news-type","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.channelafrica.co.za\/channelafrica\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news-type?post=15980"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}