{"id":12632,"date":"2025-04-01T18:31:45","date_gmt":"2025-04-01T18:31:45","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/sport\/rob-walter-south-africa-coach-resigns-citing-personal-reasons\/"},"modified":"2025-04-01T18:31:45","modified_gmt":"2025-04-01T18:31:45","slug":"rob-walter-south-africa-coach-resigns-citing-personal-reasons","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/sport\/rob-walter-south-africa-coach-resigns-citing-personal-reasons\/","title":{"rendered":"Rob Walter: South Africa coach resigns citing personal reasons"},"content":{"rendered":"<p> <br \/>\n<\/p>\n<div>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\"><b class=\"ssrcss-1xjjfut-BoldText e5tfeyi3\">South Africa white-ball coach Rob Walter has resigned, citing &#8220;personal reasons&#8221;.<\/b><\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">The 49-year-old took over in March 2023 and led the Proteas to the semi-final of the 50-over World Cup later that year.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">They also reached the T20 World Cup final in Barbados last year, losing a gripping final to India, and this year to New Zealand in the semi-final of the Champions Trophy.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">&#8220;Coaching the Proteas has been an incredible honour, and I am immensely proud of what we have achieved together,&#8221; said Walter.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">&#8220;The players, support staff, and the South African cricketing community have been fantastic throughout this journey.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">&#8220;While it&#8217;s time for me to step away, I have no doubt that the team will continue to grow and reach even greater heights.&#8221;<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><br \/>\n<br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/www.bbc.com\/sport\/cricket\/articles\/cdde4q9nyyro\">Source link <\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>South Africa white-ball coach Rob Walter has resigned, citing &#8220;personal reasons&#8221;. The 49-year-old took over in March 2023 and led the Proteas to the semi-final of the 50-over World Cup later that year. They also reached the T20 World Cup final in Barbados last year, losing a gripping final to India, and this year to [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":12633,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[21,18],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-12632","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-sport-africa","category-world-sport"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/sport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12632","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/sport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/sport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/sport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/sport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=12632"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/sport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12632\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":12634,"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/sport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12632\/revisions\/12634"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/sport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/12633"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/sport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=12632"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/sport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=12632"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/sport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=12632"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}