{"id":146943,"date":"2021-10-20T06:08:32","date_gmt":"2021-10-20T06:08:32","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/sportinfo.pro\/?p=146943"},"modified":"2021-10-20T07:00:07","modified_gmt":"2021-10-20T07:00:07","slug":"test-goat-concussed-during-practice-match","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sportinfo.pro\/?p=146943","title":{"rendered":"Test GOAT concussed during practice match"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Australian Test star <a href=\"https:\/\/wwos.nine.com.au\/nathan-lyon\" target=\"\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\" title=\"Nathan Lyon\">Nathan Lyon<\/a> was concussed during a trial game for NSW Blues on Tuesday.<\/p>\n<p>Cricket NSW revealed the off-spinner &quot;was injured while fielding late in the day&quot; on day one of a three-day match.<\/p>\n<p>He has been withdrawn from the remainder of the game but is hopeful of being fit to line up for the Blues in their <a href=\"https:\/\/wwos.nine.com.au\/cricket\/sheffield-shield\" target=\"\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\" title=\"Sheffield Shield\">Sheffield Shield<\/a> opener against Victoria at Drummoyne Oval on Wednesday next week.<\/p>\n<p>The 33-year-old \u2013 known as the GOAT as he&#x27;s Australia&#x27;s greatest-ever Test finger-spinner \u2013 had taken 1-79 from 20 overs bowled before suffering the concussion.<\/p>\n<p><img data-id=\"1e72eae9-9e5e-42c5-8319-f1cd9142ea41\" src=\"https:\/\/prod.static9.net.au\/fs\/1e72eae9-9e5e-42c5-8319-f1cd9142ea41\" alt=\"Nathan Lyon of NSW.\" data-width=\"2817\" data-height=\"1878\" \/><\/p>\n<p>The news comes barely a week after it was revealed Test young gun <a href=\"https:\/\/wwos.nine.com.au\/cricket\/will-pucovski-hopeful-of-ashes-participation-despite-concussion\/e353b8e3-40ca-49fc-9f47-de081973a135\" target=\"\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\" title=\"Will Pucovski had suffered another concussion\">Will Pucovski had suffered another concussion<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Pucovski has battled ongoing concussion issues already in his early career.<\/p>\n<p>Australia will be hoping both players are fit to be picked for the Ashes, set to get underway on December 8.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/login.nine.com.au\/login?client_id=wwos&amp;redirect_uri=https%3A%2F%2Fwwos.nine.com.au&amp;newsletter=true\" target=\"\" title=\"For a daily dose of the best of the breaking news and exclusive content from Wide World of Sports, subscribe to our newsletter by\u00a0clicking here!\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\"><strong><em>For a daily dose of the best of the breaking news and exclusive content from Wide World of Sports, subscribe to our newsletter by<\/em><\/strong> <strong><em>clicking here!<\/em><\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<div class=\"mh-excerpt\"><p>Australian Test star Nathan Lyon was concussed during a trial game for NSW Blues on Tuesday. Cricket NSW revealed the off-spinner &quot;was injured while fielding <a class=\"mh-excerpt-more\" href=\"https:\/\/sportinfo.pro\/?p=146943\" title=\"Test GOAT concussed during practice match\">[&#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\/146943"}],"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=146943"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/sportinfo.pro\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/146943\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":146945,"href":"https:\/\/sportinfo.pro\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/146943\/revisions\/146945"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sportinfo.pro\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=146943"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sportinfo.pro\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=146943"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sportinfo.pro\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=146943"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}