{"id":419520,"date":"2024-08-30T02:46:49","date_gmt":"2024-08-30T02:46:49","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/sportinfo.pro\/?p=419520"},"modified":"2024-08-30T05:10:04","modified_gmt":"2024-08-30T05:10:04","slug":"fresh-twist-in-pucovski-saga-after-reports-of-retirement","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sportinfo.pro\/?p=419520","title":{"rendered":"Fresh twist in Pucovski saga after reports of retirement"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>There&#x27;s been a fresh twist in the cricket career of <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nine.com.au\/person\/will-pucovski-26ir\" target=\"\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\" title=\"Will Pucovski\">Will Pucovski<\/a> after denials he has been medically retired.<\/p>\n<p>\ufeff9News Melbourne&#x27;s Tom Morris reported on Thursday night \ufeffthe decision was made several months ago, but will shortly be formalised contractually by Cricket Victoria.<\/p>\n<p>But on Friday, sources informed <a href=\"https:\/\/www.smh.com.au\/sport\/cricket\/concussions-rule-will-pucovski-out-for-entire-season-20240830-p5k6l5.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\" title=\"The Sydney Morning Herald\">The Sydney Morning Herald<\/a> the promising batter has not retired and has no plans to in the immediate future.<\/p>\n<p><strong>DAY 1 WRAP:<\/strong> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nine.com.au\/sport\/paralympics\/paris-2024-swimming-thomas-gallagher-wheelchair-rugby-basketball-result-video-20240830-p5k6ji.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\"><strong>Aussies&#x27; first Paris gold medal, flag bearer&#x27;s bronze<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n<p><strong>READ MORE:<\/strong> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nine.com.au\/sport\/tennis\/us-open-2024-news-australian-jordan-thompson-upsets-hubert-hurkacz-rips-schedule-20240830-p5k6l1.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\"><strong>Aussie rips US Open officials after epic upset win<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n<\/p>\n<p><strong>READ MORE:<\/strong> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nine.com.au\/sport\/paralympics\/paris-2024-swimming-tom-gallagher-gold-medal-results-video-20240830-p5k6j6.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\"><strong>Three years after near-death emergency, Gallagher wins gold<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Rather, they say Pucovski has been ruled out of the upcoming Australian season, but still holds hope of returning next year\ufeff.<\/p>\n<p>Pucovski has a history of head knocks, and hadn&#x27;t played <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nine.com.au\/sport\/cricket\/news-2024-will-pucovski-retires-hurt-riley-meredith-bouncer-tasmania-victoria-sheffield-shield-20240304-p5j9ux.html\" target=\"\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\" title=\"since his most recent from a Riley Meredith bouncer in March\">since his most recent from a Riley Meredith bouncer in March<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p><img data-id=\"f53275a3-f97a-4eef-be57-ad4d85fcade7\" src=\"https:\/\/prod.static9.net.au\/fs\/f53275a3-f97a-4eef-be57-ad4d85fcade7\" alt=\"\" data-width=\"1024\" data-height=\"576\" \/><\/p>\n<p>He&#x27;s also been open about his battle with his own mental health\ufeff, and even took an extended break from the game in 2022.<\/p>\n<p>Pucovski reportedly hasn&#x27;t made an appearance at pre-season training with Victoria, instead travelling overseas.<\/p>\n<p>Touted as a future batting prodigy, Pucovski played just the one Test for Australia &#8211; \ufeffagainst India in 2021. He made 62 and 10.<\/p>\n<p>In his 36 first-class matches, Pucovski has scored 2350 runs at 45.19 with seven hundreds.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/tommorris32\/status\/1829075844586975272?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" rel=\"nofollow\" class=\"embed-social embed-twitter\" data-show-caption=\"false\" data-conversation=\"none\">https:\/\/twitter.com\/tommorris32\/status\/1829075844586975272?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<div class=\"mh-excerpt\"><p>There&#x27;s been a fresh twist in the cricket career of Will Pucovski after denials he has been medically retired. \ufeff9News Melbourne&#x27;s Tom Morris reported on <a class=\"mh-excerpt-more\" href=\"https:\/\/sportinfo.pro\/?p=419520\" title=\"Fresh twist in Pucovski saga after reports of retirement\">[&#8230;]<\/a><\/p>\n<\/div>","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":350114,"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\/419520"}],"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=419520"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/sportinfo.pro\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/419520\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":419522,"href":"https:\/\/sportinfo.pro\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/419520\/revisions\/419522"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sportinfo.pro\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/350114"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sportinfo.pro\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=419520"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sportinfo.pro\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=419520"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sportinfo.pro\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=419520"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}