{"id":4597,"date":"2022-10-04T10:35:13","date_gmt":"2022-10-04T05:05:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.businessupturn.com\/sports\/?p=249570"},"modified":"2022-10-04T10:35:13","modified_gmt":"2022-10-04T05:05:13","slug":"johnny-bairstows-long-term-leg-injury-ruled-him-out-of-the-icc-t20-world-cup","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.businessupturn.com\/sports\/cricket\/johnny-bairstows-long-term-leg-injury-ruled-him-out-of-the-icc-t20-world-cup\/","title":{"rendered":"Johnny Bairstow\u2019s long-term leg injury ruled him out of the ICC T20 World Cup"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: left\">Then England batter has taken on his social media to confirm his absence from the ICC T20 World Cup 2022 because of a major leg injury.<\/p>\n<p>Bairstow broke his leg during a golf accident last month. Unfortunately, the batter was immediately ruled out from the T20 World Cup in Australia.<\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>The 33-year-old has successfully undergone leg surgery. The Englishman provided the update on his official Instagram account.<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/ https:\/\/www.instagram.com\/p\/CjQyxF3N4Iy\/?igshid=YmMyMTA2M2Y=\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone wp-image-249572 size-medium\" src=\"https:\/\/www.businessupturn.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/4\/2022\/10\/86924F7D-420D-4498-AF98-F8324159458F-186x300.jpeg\" alt=\"\" width=\"186\" height=\"300\" \/><\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>\u201cThe actual injury was as such\u2026 a broken fibula in 3 places which required a plate, I dislocated my ankle which in turn meant I did my syndesmosis joint and lateral ligament along with a couple more bits,\u201d the post read.\u00a0All in all, I have done a proper job on it!\u00a0Anyway\u2026 on the positive side, the operation went well and I am now 3 weeks post surgery and my staples have been removed. It\u2019s now all about swelling prevention and getting my ankle moving once again.\u00a0These next few weeks\/couple of months are the key to the recovery.\u201d<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Johnny Bairstow had been in exceptional form for England this year, with the right-hander having already made six centuries from 10 Test matches before the injury.<\/p>\n<p>Sadly the England side will miss his presence in the upcoming big event in Australia.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The English wicket-keeper-batter, Johnny Bairstow provides his positive outlook on his long-term leg injury. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":300,"featured_media":27610,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[3396,176],"class_list":["post-4597","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-cricket","tag-icc-t20-world-cup-2022","tag-jonny-bairstow"],"reading_time":"2 min read","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.businessupturn.com\/sports\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4597","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.businessupturn.com\/sports\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.businessupturn.com\/sports\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.businessupturn.com\/sports\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/300"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.businessupturn.com\/sports\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4597"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.businessupturn.com\/sports\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4597\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.businessupturn.com\/sports\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/27610"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.businessupturn.com\/sports\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4597"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.businessupturn.com\/sports\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4597"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.businessupturn.com\/sports\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4597"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}