{"id":84361,"date":"2021-06-13T02:59:31","date_gmt":"2021-06-13T02:59:31","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/sportinfo.pro\/?p=84361"},"modified":"2021-06-13T03:59:13","modified_gmt":"2021-06-13T03:59:13","slug":"du-plessis-knocked-out-in-sickening-head-clash","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sportinfo.pro\/?p=84361","title":{"rendered":"Du Plessis knocked out in sickening head clash"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Former South African captain Faf du Plessis was taken to hospital today after suffering a nasty head clash while playing for Quetta Gladiators in the Pakistan Super League.<\/p>\n<p>The incident occurred during the Gladiators&#x27; clash with the Peshawar Zalmi at Sheikh Zayed Stadium in Abu Dhabi.<\/p>\n<p>Du Plessis&#x27; and Mohammad Hasnain came together in the outfield, with the South African making a diving attempt at the boundary line before he collided with the knee of his teammate.<\/p>\n<p>The head clash resulted in du Plessis being knocked out and stuck lying helpless on the turf before physios rushed to his aid.<\/p>\n<p>He eventually got to his feet but was taken to hospital shortly after for further testing.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/faizanlakhani\/status\/1403769210115874817\" rel=\"nofollow\" class=\"embed-social embed-twitter\" data-show-caption=\"false\" data-conversation=\"none\">https:\/\/twitter.com\/faizanlakhani\/status\/1403769210115874817<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Meanwhile, South Africa&#x27;s David Miller smacked a robust half-century and led Peshawar Zalmi to an emphatic 61-run win over the depleted Quetta Gladiators in the Pakistan Super League on Saturday.<\/p>\n<p>Left-handed Miller hit 73 off 46 balls and West Indian Rovman Powell provided an ideal flourish with a quickfire 43 off 19 balls to propel Peshawar to 197-5.<\/p>\n<p>Quetta skipper Sarfaraz Ahmed top-scored in the reply with 36, but his team lost wickets in clusters against the pace trio of Mohammad Irfan (3-27), Umaid Asif (2-17), and captain Wahab Riaz (2-20) to fall well short at 136-9. Five Quetta batsmen went for ducks.<\/p>\n<p>&#8211; with AP<\/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=\"_blank\" 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 clicking here!\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\"><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 clicking here!<\/strong><\/em><\/a><\/p>\n<p><img data-id=\"59f60506-2629-4949-9709-5700b000ef68\" src=\"https:\/\/prod.static9.net.au\/fs\/59f60506-2629-4949-9709-5700b000ef68\" alt=\"Faf du Plessis collides with Mohammad Hasnain \" data-width=\"1396\" data-height=\"785\" \/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<div class=\"mh-excerpt\"><p>Former South African captain Faf du Plessis was taken to hospital today after suffering a nasty head clash while playing for Quetta Gladiators in the <a class=\"mh-excerpt-more\" href=\"https:\/\/sportinfo.pro\/?p=84361\" title=\"Du Plessis knocked out in sickening head clash\">[&#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\/84361"}],"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=84361"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/sportinfo.pro\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/84361\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":84363,"href":"https:\/\/sportinfo.pro\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/84361\/revisions\/84363"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sportinfo.pro\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=84361"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sportinfo.pro\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=84361"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sportinfo.pro\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=84361"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}