{"id":87975,"date":"2025-10-09T17:11:15","date_gmt":"2025-10-09T12:11:15","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/dailyausaf.com\/en\/?p=87975"},"modified":"2025-10-09T17:11:29","modified_gmt":"2025-10-09T12:11:29","slug":"sas-pacer-kwena-maphaka-ruled-out-of-pakistan-t20-odi-series","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/dailyausaf.com\/en\/sports\/sas-pacer-kwena-maphaka-ruled-out-of-pakistan-t20-odi-series\/","title":{"rendered":"SA pacer Kwena Maphaka ruled out of Pakistan T20, ODI series"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>LAHORE: South Africa&#8217;s young<a href=\"https:\/\/dailyausaf.com\/en\/sports\/icc-bans-netherlands-fast-bowler-heres-why\/\"> fast bowler<\/a> Kwena Maphaka has been ruled out of the T20 and ODI series against Pakistan.<\/p>\n<p>According to Cricket South Africa, Maphaka has been ruled out of the white-ball series against Pakistan and the only T20 against Namibia due to a hamstring injury.<\/p>\n<p>Maphaka sustained the injury during a four-day domestic match last week. He bowled 5.5 overs in the first innings, but had to leave the field due to a hamstring strain.<\/p>\n<p>Although initial scans did not reveal any serious problems, further medical tests later revealed that Mafaka has a grade 1 to 2 hamstring injury.<\/p>\n<p>According to Cricket South Africa, Maphaka will undergo a rehabilitation process for the next 4 weeks.<\/p>\n<p>Ottniel Baartman has been included in the squad for the T20I match against Namibia on October 11 and the three-match T20I series against Pakistan, replacing Maphaka.<\/p>\n<p>According to Cricket South Africa, Lizaad Williams, who was already part of the T20I squad, has now been included in the ODI squad against Pakistan.<\/p>\n<p>It should be noted that South Africa&#8217;s tour of Pakistan will begin with two Test matches from October 12, after which three T20Is will begin from October 28, while the three-match ODI series will continue until November 8.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>LAHORE: South Africa&#8217;s young fast bowler Kwena Maphaka has been ruled out of the T20 and ODI series against Pakistan. According to Cricket South Africa, Maphaka has been ruled out of the white-ball series against Pakistan and the only T20 against Namibia due to a hamstring injury. Maphaka sustained the injury during a four-day domestic [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":14,"featured_media":87977,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[31597],"class_list":["post-87975","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-sports","tag-kwena-maphaka"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/dailyausaf.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/87975","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\/14"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dailyausaf.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=87975"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/dailyausaf.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/87975\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":87979,"href":"https:\/\/dailyausaf.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/87975\/revisions\/87979"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dailyausaf.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/87977"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/dailyausaf.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=87975"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dailyausaf.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=87975"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dailyausaf.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=87975"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}