{"id":346468,"date":"2023-11-14T09:14:49","date_gmt":"2023-11-14T10:14:49","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/sportinfo.pro\/?p=346468"},"modified":"2023-11-14T13:01:20","modified_gmt":"2023-11-14T13:01:20","slug":"heads-daring-challenge-over-proteas-injury-ploy","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sportinfo.pro\/?p=346468","title":{"rendered":"Head's daring challenge over Proteas injury ploy"},"content":{"rendered":"

Australian<\/a> opener Travis Head<\/a> has challenged South Africa \ufeffto target him with Gerald Coetzee's bowling after a delivery from the South African paceman fractured Head's hand<\/a> in an ODI series before the World Cup<\/a>.<\/p>\n

Coetzee has predominantly bowled second change for the Proteas and sits third on the wicket-takers leaderboard with 18.<\/p>\n

The 23-year-old has featured in seven out of nine World Cup matches for South Africa and could wreak havoc in the latter stages of the series.<\/p>\n

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Speaking ahead of their semi-final clash, the Australian opener encouraged his opponents to bring their young firebrand on early. \ufeff<\/p>\n

\"Travis<\/p>\n

\ufeff"G\ufeffo for it," Head said.<\/p>\n

"They've got a very good bowling attack, I think he's taken the most wickets for them but has missed a couple of games.<\/p>\n

"It'll be interesting to see what make up they go with but I don't think that will be in their mind. I think they'll back their skillset over mine.<\/p>\n

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"I think they're a pretty good bowling attack, they're a very skilful bowling attack, I don't think I'll be targeted in any certain way, I think they'll think that their skillset is good enough to get me out and I'll back my skillset against theirs, it'll be a good battle and we'll see how we go."<\/p>\n

Head suffered his injury in the fourth ODI against South Africa in September, and only joined Australia's World Cup squad late due to his recovery.<\/p>\n

\"The<\/p>\n

The 29-year-old added he hadn't given much thought to the idea that it was the South Africans that broke his hand. \ufeff<\/p>\n

"No," he replied.<\/p>\n

"… I'm sure he didn't mean to hit me in the hand, it was meant to probably go a bit higher than that, that's all part of the game so I guess I take a relaxed approach to that sort of stuff; performance, injuries.<\/p>\n

"He did me a favour, I got four weeks at home with the family, got refreshed, came back and hopefully can be refreshed, energised and can perform at the back end of the tournament.<\/p>\n

"It might be a blessing in disguise."<\/p>\n

Australia faces South Africa in the World Cup semi-final at 7.30pm on November 16 (AEDT).\ufeff<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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