{"id":4988,"date":"2022-12-19T14:57:32","date_gmt":"2022-12-19T09:27:32","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.businessupturn.com\/sports\/?p=265625"},"modified":"2022-12-19T14:57:32","modified_gmt":"2022-12-19T09:27:32","slug":"aus-vs-sa-josh-hazlewood-likely-to-return-for-boxing-day-test","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.businessupturn.com\/sports\/cricket\/aus-vs-sa-josh-hazlewood-likely-to-return-for-boxing-day-test\/","title":{"rendered":"AUS vs SA: Josh Hazlewood likely to return for Boxing Day Test"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Injured Australian pacer Josh Hazlewood is confident that he will be able to play in the second Test against South Africa on December 26 in Melbourne.<br \/>\nJosh Hazlewood missed the series-clinching victory over the West Indies and the opening Test against South Africa at The Gabba, which ended in two days, due to a side strain.<\/p>\n<p>The Australia shortstop, however, is optimistic that he will be able to play in the Test match that starts in Melbourne on Boxing Day.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cEverything is ticking along nicely and going according to plan,\u201d Hazlewood told Channel Seven.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIf I\u2019m ticking the box on the 24th and bowling two spells of four or five overs with a break in between, that\u2019s the final tick we\u2019re looking for, then I\u2019ll be available for selection hopefully.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI\u2019ll build it up over the next week and a half and tick that last box on the 24th hopefully. I\u2019m not noticing the side at all, so fingers crossed.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Injured Australian pacer Josh Hazlewood is confident that he will be able to play in the second Test against South\u2026<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":250,"featured_media":27977,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[3431,1346,1231],"class_list":["post-4988","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-cricket","tag-australia","tag-boxing-day-test","tag-josh-hazlewood"],"reading_time":"1 min read","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.businessupturn.com\/sports\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4988","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\/250"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.businessupturn.com\/sports\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4988"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.businessupturn.com\/sports\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4988\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.businessupturn.com\/sports\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/27977"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.businessupturn.com\/sports\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4988"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.businessupturn.com\/sports\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4988"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.businessupturn.com\/sports\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4988"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}