{"id":2873,"date":"2024-08-06T16:12:58","date_gmt":"2024-08-06T16:12:58","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/sport\/nathan-smith-worcestershire-all-rounder-to-miss-rest-of-season\/"},"modified":"2024-08-06T16:12:58","modified_gmt":"2024-08-06T16:12:58","slug":"nathan-smith-worcestershire-all-rounder-to-miss-rest-of-season","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/sport\/nathan-smith-worcestershire-all-rounder-to-miss-rest-of-season\/","title":{"rendered":"Nathan Smith: Worcestershire all-rounder to miss rest of season"},"content":{"rendered":"<p> <br \/>\n<\/p>\n<div>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">The 32-year-old all-rounder has been troubled by a persistent shoulder problem despite surgery last winter.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">He has not played since their T20 Blast game against Derbyshire on 18 July and is only averaging 25.25 in County Championship Division One this season.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">&#8220;Since the operation he has had a frozen shoulder which we really couldn&#8217;t do much about but now he is getting in a lot of good rehab work,&#8221; head coach Alan Richardson <a href=\"https:\/\/wccc.co.uk\/encouraging-fitness-update-for-club-captain-brett-doliveira\/\" class=\"ssrcss-k8mrr8-InlineLink e1kn3p7n0\">told the club website.<span class=\"visually-hidden ssrcss-1f39n02-VisuallyHidden e16en2lz0\">, <!-- -->external<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">&#8220;It is now what they call defrosting and it&#8217;s an opportunity for him to get some good work done and to put himself into a really good place going into the back end of the season.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">&#8220;It has been painful throughout the season and he&#8217;s done an amazing job to get through as much cricket as he has done.&#8221;<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><br \/>\n<br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/www.bbc.com\/sport\/cricket\/articles\/c39kk3vpeeno\">Source link <\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The 32-year-old all-rounder has been troubled by a persistent shoulder problem despite surgery last winter. He has not played since their T20 Blast game against Derbyshire on 18 July and is only averaging 25.25 in County Championship Division One this season. &#8220;Since the operation he has had a frozen shoulder which we really couldn&#8217;t do [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":2874,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2873","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-cricket"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/sport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2873","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=2873"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/sport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2873\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2875,"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/sport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2873\/revisions\/2875"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/sport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2874"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/sport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2873"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/sport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2873"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/sport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2873"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}