{"id":18947,"date":"2021-01-06T17:36:43","date_gmt":"2021-01-06T18:36:43","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/sportinfo.pro\/?p=18947"},"modified":"2021-01-06T18:56:12","modified_gmt":"2021-01-06T18:56:12","slug":"abbott-eligible-to-represent-south-africa-again-after-cancelation-of-kolpak-registrations","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sportinfo.pro\/?p=18947","title":{"rendered":"Abbott eligible to represent South Africa again after cancelation of Kolpak registrations"},"content":{"rendered":"<div style=\"margin: 5px 5% 10px 5%\"><img loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/arysports.tv\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/01\/Kyle-Abbott.jpg\" width=\"742\" height=\"486\" title=\"\" alt=\"\" \/><\/div>\n<div>\n<p><strong>South African Kyle Abbott is all set to return to his home country South Africa after he left following a Kolpak deal signed with Hampshire in 2017.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>The 33-year-old Abbott has signed a contract with the Titans ahead of the One-Day Cup, starting on Saturday, January 9.<\/p>\n<p>Players from South Africa who featured in the County Championship as overseas players are now eligible to play for their country after the United Kingdom is no more a part of the European Union. Hence all the Kolpak registrations have been terminated.<\/p>\n<p>As the travel restrictions imposed in the UK due to COVID-19, it will be difficult for Abbott to continue his stint with the Hampshire.<\/p>\n<p>It must be noted Abbott played three full seasons in England, picking 182 wickets at an average of 18.63 in the County Championship.<\/p>\n<h3><strong>Read:\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/arysports.tv\/abbotts-international-career-ends-with-kolpak-deal\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Abbott\u2019s international career ends with Kolpak deal<\/a><\/strong><\/h3>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<div class=\"mh-excerpt\"><p>South African Kyle Abbott is all set to return to his home country South Africa after he left following a Kolpak deal signed with Hampshire <a class=\"mh-excerpt-more\" href=\"https:\/\/sportinfo.pro\/?p=18947\" title=\"Abbott eligible to represent South Africa again after cancelation of Kolpak registrations\">[&#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\/18947"}],"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=18947"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/sportinfo.pro\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18947\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":18949,"href":"https:\/\/sportinfo.pro\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18947\/revisions\/18949"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sportinfo.pro\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=18947"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sportinfo.pro\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=18947"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sportinfo.pro\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=18947"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}