{"id":109553,"date":"2026-04-25T17:43:59","date_gmt":"2026-04-25T12:43:59","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/dailyausaf.com\/en\/?p=109553"},"modified":"2026-04-25T17:43:59","modified_gmt":"2026-04-25T12:43:59","slug":"cricketer-ngidi-injured-after-heavy-fall-during-match-taken-to-hospital","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/dailyausaf.com\/en\/sports\/cricketer-ngidi-injured-after-heavy-fall-during-match-taken-to-hospital\/","title":{"rendered":"Cricketer Ngidi Injured after heavy fall during match, taken to hospital"},"content":{"rendered":"<p data-start=\"90\" data-end=\"273\">DELHI: During <a href=\"https:\/\/dailyausaf.com\/en\/sports\/ipl-match-halted-midway-amid-india-pakistan-tensions\/\">IPL match<\/a>, South African pacer <span class=\"hover:entity-accent entity-underline inline cursor-pointer align-baseline\"><span class=\"whitespace-normal\">Lungi Ngidi<\/span><\/span> suffered a serious injury after a failed catch attempt, raising fears of a possible concussion.<\/p>\n<p data-start=\"275\" data-end=\"491\">The incident occurred when Ngidi, positioned at mid-off, ran back to take a high catch but misjudged it. He fell awkwardly, hitting the back of his head hard on the ground and remained motionless for over a minute.<\/p>\n<p data-start=\"493\" data-end=\"775\">Medical staff rushed onto the field immediately, with the physio holding his neck and assessing his condition. Although Ngidi was able to communicate, he showed signs of distress. A stretcher was brought in, and a neck brace was carefully fitted before securing him for transport.<\/p>\n<p data-start=\"777\" data-end=\"958\" data-is-last-node=\"\" data-is-only-node=\"\">Doctors and support staff surrounded the player as he was taken off the field and shifted to an ambulance for further medical examination. More updates on his condition are awaited.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>DELHI: During IPL match, South African pacer Lungi Ngidi suffered a serious injury after a failed catch attempt, raising fears of a possible concussion. The incident occurred when Ngidi, positioned at mid-off, ran back to take a high catch but misjudged it. He fell awkwardly, hitting the back of his head hard on the ground [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":29,"featured_media":2679,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[40885],"class_list":["post-109553","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-sports","tag-ngidi-injured"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/dailyausaf.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/109553","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/dailyausaf.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/dailyausaf.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dailyausaf.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/29"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dailyausaf.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=109553"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/dailyausaf.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/109553\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":109554,"href":"https:\/\/dailyausaf.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/109553\/revisions\/109554"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dailyausaf.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2679"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/dailyausaf.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=109553"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dailyausaf.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=109553"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dailyausaf.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=109553"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}