{"id":145376,"date":"2021-10-17T01:45:32","date_gmt":"2021-10-17T01:45:32","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/sportinfo.pro\/?p=145376"},"modified":"2021-10-17T07:59:50","modified_gmt":"2021-10-17T07:59:50","slug":"test-star-floored-by-sickening-blow","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sportinfo.pro\/?p=145376","title":{"rendered":"Test star floored by sickening blow"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>It&#x27;s been a rough week for Australian Test star <a href=\"https:\/\/wwos.nine.com.au\/cricket\/marnus-labuschagne\" target=\"\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\" title=\"Marnus Labuschagne\">Marnus Labuschagne<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>He was <a href=\"https:\/\/wwos.nine.com.au\/cricket\/marnus-labuschagne-fined-sheffield-shield-queensland-tasmania\/accfdd8f-cd04-4cf9-9719-3b51b17e2113\" target=\"\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\" title=\"hit with a fine for excessive appealing in a Sheffield Shield match\">hit with a fine for excessive appealing in a Sheffield Shield match<\/a>, narrowly avoiding a dissent charge for running down the wicket following a delivery that the umpire deemed not out.<\/p>\n<p>A few days later he was back in action for Queensland for their next Shield game, against South Australia at Adelaide Oval.<\/p>\n<p>Labuschagne had been out lbw for 8 in the Bulls&#x27; first innings, falling to Redbacks paceman Brendan Doggett.<\/p>\n<p>The pair were locked in another cat-and-mouse battle with Labuschagne at the crease for the second innings on Sunday, when he let a delivery slip past his bat that he will be regretting for a while.<\/p>\n<p>A Doggett seamer bounced off the deck and flew up into Labuschagne&#x27;s groin, hitting him where every man fears to be hit.<\/p>\n<p><img data-video-id=\"6276868498001\" src=\"https:\/\/vms-network-images-prod.s3-ap-southeast-2.amazonaws.com\/2021\/10\/386330\/pickerimage.jpg\" alt=\"Marnus Labuschagne&#x27;s awkward appeal in a Sheffield Shield match\" data-vms-id=\"ref:ckup67c0h000e0hmmpn5qa21i\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Labuschagne &#8211; one of Australia&#x27;s leading Test batters &#8211; dropped to his knees and then rolled onto his back, clutching himself in pain.<\/p>\n<p>Doggett checked in on the opposition star while Labuschagne&#x27;s batting partner, Usman Khawaja, also walked down the pitch to make sure he was OK.<\/p>\n<p>Luckily, Labuschagne was able to bat on with Khawaja as the pair combined for a healthy partnership.<\/p>\n<p><em><strong>For a daily dose of the best of the breaking news and exclusive content from Wide World of Sports, subscribe to our newsletter by<\/strong><\/em> <a href=\"https:\/\/login.nine.com.au\/login?client_id=wwos&amp;redirect_uri=https%3A%2F%2Fwwos.nine.com.au&amp;newsletter=true\" title=\"clicking here!\"><em><strong>clicking here!<\/strong><\/em><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<div class=\"mh-excerpt\"><p>It&#x27;s been a rough week for Australian Test star Marnus Labuschagne. He was hit with a fine for excessive appealing in a Sheffield Shield match, <a class=\"mh-excerpt-more\" href=\"https:\/\/sportinfo.pro\/?p=145376\" title=\"Test star floored by sickening blow\">[&#8230;]<\/a><\/p>\n<\/div>","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[1],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/sportinfo.pro\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/145376"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/sportinfo.pro\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/sportinfo.pro\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sportinfo.pro\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sportinfo.pro\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=145376"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/sportinfo.pro\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/145376\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":145378,"href":"https:\/\/sportinfo.pro\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/145376\/revisions\/145378"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sportinfo.pro\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=145376"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sportinfo.pro\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=145376"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sportinfo.pro\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=145376"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}