{"id":13188,"date":"2014-06-24T12:05:37","date_gmt":"2014-06-24T10:05:37","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/mobserver.co.za\/?p=13188"},"modified":"2014-06-24T12:05:37","modified_gmt":"2014-06-24T10:05:37","slug":"adriaanse-lewies-called-bok-squad","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/develop.citizen.co.za\/middelburg-observer\/sports-news\/2014\/06\/24\/adriaanse-lewies-called-bok-squad\/","title":{"rendered":"Adriaanse, Lewies called up to Bok squad"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Adriaanse joins the squad to replace Sharks\u2019 teammate Tendai Mtawarira, who is out with a neck injury he suffered during the 31-30 victory over Wales in Nelspruit this past Saturday.<\/p>\n<p>Lewies on the other hand will be replacing Flip van der Merwe, who sustained a serious knee injury during the same game against the Welsh.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cTendai has a bulging disc in his neck and he will consult with a specialist in Durban as soon as possible,\u201d Springbok team doctor Craig Roberts said.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cFlip hyper-extended his knee in a tackle and scans confirmed our clinical suspicions of a posterior cruciate injury. He will consult a knee specialist in Pretoria later on Tuesday.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Springbok coach Heyneke Meyer said Adriaanse and Lewies were the next players on the standby list and is hopeful that they will gel with the rest of the squad.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cLourens has been with us before and I\u2019m sure he will slot back in easily,\u201d said Meyer.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cStephan was part of our training squad in Durban at the end of last month. He arrived in Port Elizabeth earlier today and looked good at our afternoon training session.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cHe has been very good in Vodacom Super Rugby this year and deserves this opportunity.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Sharks prop Lourens Adriaanse and lock Stephan Lewies have been called up to the Springbok squad ahead of Saturday\u2019s Test against Scotland.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2844,"featured_media":13189,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"hasGravity":false,"cxt_article_byline":"","cxt_disable_google_ads":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[2887,2886],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-13188","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-general-sport","category-sports-news"],"category_labels":{"Category":"Sport","SubCategory":"General"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/develop.citizen.co.za\/middelburg-observer\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13188","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/develop.citizen.co.za\/middelburg-observer\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/develop.citizen.co.za\/middelburg-observer\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/develop.citizen.co.za\/middelburg-observer\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2844"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/develop.citizen.co.za\/middelburg-observer\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=13188"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/develop.citizen.co.za\/middelburg-observer\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13188\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/develop.citizen.co.za\/middelburg-observer\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/13189"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/develop.citizen.co.za\/middelburg-observer\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=13188"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/develop.citizen.co.za\/middelburg-observer\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=13188"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/develop.citizen.co.za\/middelburg-observer\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=13188"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}