{"id":48767,"date":"2026-10-22T14:40:20","date_gmt":"2026-10-22T12:40:20","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.channelafrica.co.za\/channelafrica\/?post_type=news&#038;p=48767"},"modified":"2026-10-22T14:40:20","modified_gmt":"2026-10-22T12:40:20","slug":"australias-schutt-handed-two-match-ban-over-prescription-medication-breach","status":"publish","type":"news","link":"https:\/\/www.channelafrica.co.za\/channelafrica\/news\/australias-schutt-handed-two-match-ban-over-prescription-medication-breach\/","title":{"rendered":"Australia&#8217;s Schutt handed two-match ban over prescription medication breach"},"content":{"rendered":"<div dir=\"ltr\">Australia fast bowler Megan Schutt has been suspended \u200bfor two matches for \u200cfailing to comply with requirements relating to the use of \u200bprescription medication, Cricket \u200bAustralia said on Thursday.<\/div>\n<div dir=\"ltr\"><\/div>\n<div>The 33-year-old \u2060will miss the third \u200band final Twenty20 against New \u200bZealand at North Sydney Oval on Thursday, as well as Adelaide \u200bStrikers&#8217; Women&#8217;s Big Bash \u200bLeague opener against Melbourne Stars on \u200cOctober \u206031.<\/div>\n<div dir=\"ltr\"><\/div>\n<div dir=\"ltr\">&#8220;This breach relates to a single incidence which occurred while out of competition and \u200bwas not \u200bfor \u2060performance enhancing purposes,&#8221; Cricket Australia said in \u200ba statement.<\/div>\n<div dir=\"ltr\">\nSchutt said \u200bin \u2060the statement that she accepted the sanction and apologised \u2060for \u200bfailing to meet \u200bthe standards.<\/div>\n<div dir=\"ltr\"><\/div>\n<div dir=\"ltr\">\u2014Reuters\u2014<\/div>\n","protected":false},"featured_media":22746,"template":"","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"_members_access_role":[],"_members_access_error":"","_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"news-type":[20],"class_list":["post-48767","news","type-news","status-publish","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","news-type-sport","entry"],"acf":{"short_description":"Schutt said \u200bin \u2060the statement that she accepted the sanction and apologised \u2060for \u200bfailing to meet \u200bthe standards.","published_date":"","news_description":"Schutt said \u200bin \u2060the statement that she accepted the sanction and apologised \u2060for \u200bfailing to meet \u200bthe standards.","form_embed":"","author":"","image_caption":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.channelafrica.co.za\/channelafrica\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news\/48767","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":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.channelafrica.co.za\/channelafrica\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news\/48767\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":48769,"href":"https:\/\/www.channelafrica.co.za\/channelafrica\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news\/48767\/revisions\/48769"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.channelafrica.co.za\/channelafrica\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/22746"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.channelafrica.co.za\/channelafrica\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=48767"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"news-type","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.channelafrica.co.za\/channelafrica\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news-type?post=48767"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}