{"id":174181,"date":"2021-10-16T00:38:33","date_gmt":"2021-10-15T19:08:33","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/arunachaltimes.in\/?p=174181"},"modified":"2021-10-16T00:38:33","modified_gmt":"2021-10-15T19:08:33","slug":"hamstring-niggles-to-keep-williamson-chapman-out-of-nzs-warm-up-game-against-the-dutch","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/arunachaltimes.in\/index.php\/2021\/10\/16\/hamstring-niggles-to-keep-williamson-chapman-out-of-nzs-warm-up-game-against-the-dutch\/","title":{"rendered":"Hamstring niggles to keep Williamson, Chapman out of NZ&#8217;s warm-up game against the Dutch"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Dubai, Oct 15 (PTI) New Zealand skipper Kane Williamson and all-rounder Mark Chapman will not play in the T20 World Cup warm-up match against the Netherlands here on Saturday because of hamstring niggles, the team has announced.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">&#8220;Kane Williamson and Mark Chapman will sit out tomorrow&#8217;s warm up match against @KNCBcricket as a precaution with hamstring niggles,&#8221; posted the Black Caps officials Twitter handle.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Williamson on Thursday described his hamstring injury a &#8220;minor&#8221; one but admitted that an elbow niggle is affecting his grip even as he played down concerns over his fitness ahead of the Kiwis&#8217; T20 World Cup opener against Pakistan on October 26.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">The tournament proper begins on Sunday.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">&#8220;Minor, (it&#8217;s) okay, progressing well. So, there are no complaints,&#8221; he responded to a query during a conference call with media arranged by the ICC.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">He, however, conceded that recovery has been slow from an elbow problem, which has been bothering him for a while.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">&#8220;&#8230;it has just been a bit of a slow-burner&#8230;.quite frustrating for a long period of time. However, it has definitely improved a bit over the last two months I&#8217;ve had after the World Test Championship,&#8221; he said.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">&#8220;On rehab, it has definitely seemed to move forward, which is refreshing, but still a little bit of time to get back to a 100 per cent,&#8221; he added.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Dubai, Oct 15 (PTI) New Zealand skipper Kane Williamson and all-rounder Mark Chapman will not play in the T20 World Cup warm-up match against the Netherlands here on Saturday because of hamstring niggles, the team has announced. &#8220;Kane Williamson and Mark Chapman will sit out tomorrow&#8217;s warm up match against @KNCBcricket as a precaution with [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[10],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-174181","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-sports"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/arunachaltimes.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/174181","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/arunachaltimes.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/arunachaltimes.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/arunachaltimes.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/arunachaltimes.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=174181"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/arunachaltimes.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/174181\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/arunachaltimes.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=174181"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/arunachaltimes.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=174181"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/arunachaltimes.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=174181"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}