{"id":7230,"date":"2023-09-28T20:56:05","date_gmt":"2023-09-28T15:26:05","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.businessupturn.com\/sports\/?p=357819"},"modified":"2023-09-28T20:56:05","modified_gmt":"2023-09-28T15:26:05","slug":"world-cup-2023-south-african-skipper-temba-bavuma-to-miss-warm-up-games-before-tournament","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.businessupturn.com\/sports\/cricket\/world-cup-2023-south-african-skipper-temba-bavuma-to-miss-warm-up-games-before-tournament\/","title":{"rendered":"World Cup 2023: South African skipper Temba Bavuma to miss warm up games before tournament"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"color: #252525\">South African skipper Temba Bavuma has to head home amid family reasons and will be absent during the two warm-up fixtures before the World Cup 2023 kick-offs. The Proteas\u2019 are supposed to face Afghanistan and New Zealand in their two warm-up matches.<\/p>\n<p style=\"color: #252525\">South Africa will take on Afghanistan at Greenfield Stadium, Thiruvananthapuram, under the captaincy of Aiden Markram, followed by the Kiwis on October 2 at the same venue.<\/p>\n<p style=\"color: #252525\">Their first World Cup match is against Sri Lanka, which is at the Arun Jaitley Stadium in Delhi. Skipper Bavuma is likely to return before both teams lock horns.<\/p>\n<p style=\"color: #252525\">However, South Africa will miss their ace seamers Anrich Nortje and Sisanda Magala for the tournament due to serious injuries.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>South African skipper Temba Bavuma has to head home amid family reasons and will be absent during the two warm-up\u2026<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":300,"featured_media":30136,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[2106,2929,3446,2711],"class_list":["post-7230","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-cricket","tag-aiden-markram","tag-anrich-nortje","tag-icc-world-cup-2023","tag-temba-bavuma"],"reading_time":"1 min read","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.businessupturn.com\/sports\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7230","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=7230"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.businessupturn.com\/sports\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7230\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.businessupturn.com\/sports\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/30136"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.businessupturn.com\/sports\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=7230"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.businessupturn.com\/sports\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=7230"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.businessupturn.com\/sports\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=7230"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}