{"id":22279,"date":"2026-01-11T10:49:19","date_gmt":"2026-01-11T08:49:19","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/jhb-webdevelopers\/channelafrica\/news\/indias-wicketkeeper-pant-ruled-out-of-odi-series-after-omt-diagnosis\/"},"modified":"2026-02-27T16:33:18","modified_gmt":"2026-02-27T14:33:18","slug":"indias-wicketkeeper-pant-ruled-out-of-odi-series-after-omt-diagnosis","status":"publish","type":"news","link":"https:\/\/www.channelafrica.co.za\/channelafrica\/news\/indias-wicketkeeper-pant-ruled-out-of-odi-series-after-omt-diagnosis\/","title":{"rendered":"India\u2019s wicketkeeper Pant ruled out of ODI series after OMT diagnosis"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>India wicketkeeper Rishabh Pant has been ruled out of the three-match one-day international (ODI) series against New Zealand after suffering an abdominal injury during a training session, the Indian cricket board (BCCI) says on Sunday, ahead of the first game in Vadodara.<\/p>\n<p>The selection committee named Dhruv Jurel as Pant\u2019s replacement, the board says, adding he had already linked up with the Indian squad.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWicket-keeper Rishabh Pant felt a sudden onset of discomfort in his right lateral abdominal area while batting in the nets during India\u2019s practice session on Saturday afternoon at the BCA Stadium, Vadodara,\u201d the BCCI says in a statement.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cHe was taken for MRI scans immediately and the BCCI Medical Team had a detailed discussion with an expert on his clinical and radiological findings. Pant has been diagnosed with a side strain (Oblique Muscle Tear) and is subsequently ruled out of the ODI Series,\u201d the statement says.<\/p>\n<p>After the ODI series ends on January 18, India and New Zealand will also play five T20 Internationals this month, before the start of the Twenty20 World Cup scheduled from February 7 to March 8 across eight venues in India and Sri Lanka.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&#8211;Reuters&#8211;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"featured_media":22280,"template":"","meta":{"_acf_changed":false},"news-type":[20],"class_list":["post-22279","news","type-news","status-publish","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","news-type-sport","entry"],"acf":{"short_description":"The selection committee named Dhruv Jurel as Pant\u2019s replacement.","published_date":null,"news_description":"The selection committee named Dhruv Jurel as Pant\u2019s replacement.","form_embed":"","author":"","image_caption":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.channelafrica.co.za\/channelafrica\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news\/22279","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\/22279\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":25629,"href":"https:\/\/www.channelafrica.co.za\/channelafrica\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news\/22279\/revisions\/25629"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.channelafrica.co.za\/channelafrica\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/22280"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.channelafrica.co.za\/channelafrica\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=22279"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"news-type","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.channelafrica.co.za\/channelafrica\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news-type?post=22279"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}