{"id":7213,"date":"2023-09-27T14:38:18","date_gmt":"2023-09-27T09:08:18","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.businessupturn.com\/sports\/?p=357337"},"modified":"2023-09-27T14:38:18","modified_gmt":"2023-09-27T09:08:18","slug":"tim-southee-nearing-return-for-world-cup-after-thumb-surgery","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.businessupturn.com\/sports\/cricket\/tim-southee-nearing-return-for-world-cup-after-thumb-surgery\/","title":{"rendered":"Tim Southee nearing return for World Cup after thumb surgery"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Veteran fast bowler Tim Southee is making positive strides in his recovery from thumb surgery as he prepares to rejoin New Zealand\u2019s World Cup squad. Southee suffered a fractured right thumb while fielding in a recent ODI against England.<\/p>\n<p>After consulting specialists and undergoing surgery, the 34-year-old is on track to regain full fitness ahead of New Zealand\u2019s World Cup opener against England on October 5 in Ahmedabad.<\/p>\n<p>In the meantime, pace-bowler Kyle Jamieson will join the World Cup squad in India this week for training purposes, although he won\u2019t be officially part of the World Cup squad.<\/p>\n<p>Consequently, he won\u2019t participate in the upcoming warm-up matches against Pakistan and South Africa, scheduled for Friday and Monday, respectively.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Veteran fast bowler Tim Southee is making positive strides in his recovery from thumb surgery as he prepares to rejoin\u2026<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":250,"featured_media":30119,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[3486,164,1129],"class_list":["post-7213","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-cricket","tag-icc-odi-world-cup-2023","tag-new-zealand","tag-tim-southee"],"reading_time":"1 min read","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.businessupturn.com\/sports\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7213","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=7213"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.businessupturn.com\/sports\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7213\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.businessupturn.com\/sports\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/30119"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.businessupturn.com\/sports\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=7213"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.businessupturn.com\/sports\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=7213"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.businessupturn.com\/sports\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=7213"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}