{"id":27650,"date":"2025-11-16T09:04:01","date_gmt":"2025-11-16T09:04:01","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/ipp-news.com\/?p=27650"},"modified":"2025-11-16T09:04:01","modified_gmt":"2025-11-16T09:04:01","slug":"india-captain-gill-injured-out-of-south-africa-first-test","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ipp-news.com\/?p=27650","title":{"rendered":"India Captain Gill injured, out of South Africa first test"},"content":{"rendered":"<div>India captain Shubman Gill was &#8220;under observation&#8221; in hospital Sunday after suffering neck pain and will take no further part in the first Test against South Africa.<\/p>\n<p>\ud83d\udea8 Update \ud83d\udea8<\/p>\n<p>Captain Shubman Gill had a neck injury on Day 2 of the ongoing Test against South Africa in Kolkata. He was taken to the hospital for examination after the end of day&#8217;s play.<\/p>\n<p>He is currently under observation in the hospital. He will take no further part in the\u2026 pic.twitter.com\/o7ozaIECLq<br \/>\n\u2014 BCCI (@BCCI) November 16, 2025<\/p>\n<p>Top-order batsman Gill felt pain in his neck after scoring a boundary on the second day on Saturday in Kolkata and left the field.<\/p>\n<p>Gill &#8220;was taken to the hospital for examination after the end of day&#8217;s play,&#8221; said the Board of Control For Cricket in India (BCCI), on Sunday ahead of start of the third day.<\/p>\n<p>Read:\u00a0India close in on win over South Africa<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;He is currently under observation in the hospital. He will take no further part in the Test match. He will continue to be monitored by the BCCI medical team.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>The first match of the two-Test series looks likely to end on day three at Eden Gardens on Sunday, with South Africa to resume at 93-7 in their second innings, a lead of just 63 runs, on tricky batting wicket.<\/p>\n<p>Gill faces a battle to be fit to lead the side in the second Test in Guwahati, which is due to begin in six days&#8217; time on November 22.<\/p><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>India captain Shubman Gill was &#8220;under observation&#8221; in hospital Sunday after suffering neck pain and will take no further part in the first Test against South Africa. \ud83d\udea8 Update \ud83d\udea8 Captain Shubman Gill had a neck injury on Day 2 of the ongoing Test against South Africa in Kolkata. He was taken to the hospital [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-27650","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-english-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/ipp-news.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/27650","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/ipp-news.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/ipp-news.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ipp-news.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ipp-news.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=27650"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/ipp-news.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/27650\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/ipp-news.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=27650"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ipp-news.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=27650"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ipp-news.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=27650"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}