{"id":161761,"date":"2026-05-01T02:13:57","date_gmt":"2026-05-01T07:43:57","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/newslink360.space\/?p=161761"},"modified":"2026-05-01T02:13:57","modified_gmt":"2026-05-01T07:43:57","slug":"new-zealand-skipper-santner-sidelined-for-at-least-a-month-due-to-shoulder-injury","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/newslink360.space\/?p=161761","title":{"rendered":"New Zealand skipper Santner sidelined for at least a month due to shoulder injury"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><br \/>\n<\/p>\n<div id=\"content-body-70927834\" itemprop=\"articleBody\">New Zealand white ball skipper Mitchell Santner will be out of action for at least a month due to a grade three ACL shoulder injury he sustained during the Indian Premier League.<\/p>\n<p>The 34-year-old injured his left shoulder while fielding during Mumbai Indians\u2019 match against the Chennai Super Kings on April 23.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cSantner returned home to New Zealand this week and saw a specialist this morning who confirmed a rest and rehabilitation period of at least one month,\u201d New Zealand Cricket said on Friday.<\/p>\n<p>The spin-bowling all-rounder, who took a fine diving catch to dismiss CSK\u2019s Kartik Sharma off Jasprit Bumrah but hit his shoulder and head on the ground, will thus be unavailable for the one-off Test against Ireland and the first Test against England.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cHis availability for the second and third Tests to be evaluated at a later date,\u201d NZC said.<\/p>\n<p>The one-off four-day Test against Ireland begins at Stormont in Belfast on May 27, with the three Tests against England to be played at Lord\u2019s (June 4-8), The Oval (June 17-21) and Trent Bridge (June 25-29), respectively.<\/p>\n<p class=\"publish-time\" id=\"end-of-article\">Published on May 01, 2026<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><br \/>\n<br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/sportstar.thehindu.com\/cricket\/new-zealand-captain-mitchell-santner-injury-update-will-miss-test-vs-ireland-england\/article70927834.ece\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Source link <\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>New Zealand white ball skipper Mitchell Santner will be out of action for at least a month due to a grade three ACL shoulder injury he sustained during the Indian Premier League. The 34-year-old injured his left shoulder while fielding during Mumbai Indians\u2019 match against the Chennai Super Kings on April 23. \u201cSantner returned home&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":161762,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[9],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-161761","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-sports"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/newslink360.space\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/05\/DSC_4867.jpg","jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/pgnRh4-G53","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/newslink360.space\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/161761","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/newslink360.space\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/newslink360.space\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newslink360.space\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newslink360.space\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=161761"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/newslink360.space\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/161761\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newslink360.space\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/161762"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/newslink360.space\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=161761"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newslink360.space\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=161761"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newslink360.space\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=161761"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}