{"id":98179,"date":"2026-01-22T20:51:20","date_gmt":"2026-01-22T15:51:20","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/dailyausaf.com\/en\/?p=98179"},"modified":"2026-01-22T20:51:20","modified_gmt":"2026-01-22T15:51:20","slug":"south-africa-star-faf-du-plessis-ruled-out-of-psl-due-to-thumb-injury","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/dailyausaf.com\/en\/sports\/south-africa-star-faf-du-plessis-ruled-out-of-psl-due-to-thumb-injury\/","title":{"rendered":"Proteas Star Faf du Plessis ruled out of PSL due to thumb injury"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>LAHORE: South Africa&#8217;s star batsman Faf du Plessis has been ruled out of the Pakistan Super League (<a href=\"https:\/\/dailyausaf.com\/en\/sports\/auction-system-set-to-debut-in-psl-11\/\">PSL<\/a>) due to his right thumb injury.<\/p>\n<p>Sources say that Faf du Plessis suffered a serious injury to his right thumb during the recently played SA20 League 2025-26, after which he had to withdraw from the event in the middle of the season.<\/p>\n<p>According to medical experts, the nature of the injury is serious, and surgery has become necessary for a complete recovery, due to which he will be away from competitive cricket for the next few months.<\/p>\n<p>Faf du Plessis last represented Quetta Gladiators in PSL 2021. He has played only 6 matches for two different franchises, Quetta Gladiators and Peshawar Zalmi, in two seasons of PSL so far. In these competitions, he scored 107 runs in 5 innings, averaging 21.40 while having a strike rate of 122.98.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>LAHORE: South Africa&#8217;s star batsman Faf du Plessis has been ruled out of the Pakistan Super League (PSL) due to his right thumb injury. Sources say that Faf du Plessis suffered a serious injury to his right thumb during the recently played SA20 League 2025-26, after which he had to withdraw from the event in [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":29,"featured_media":98180,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[32605,32637],"class_list":["post-98179","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-sports","tag-faf-du-plessis","tag-psl-2026"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/dailyausaf.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/98179","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=98179"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/dailyausaf.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/98179\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":98181,"href":"https:\/\/dailyausaf.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/98179\/revisions\/98181"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dailyausaf.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/98180"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/dailyausaf.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=98179"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dailyausaf.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=98179"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dailyausaf.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=98179"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}