{"id":166013,"date":"2026-05-11T01:21:38","date_gmt":"2026-05-11T06:51:38","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/newslink360.space\/?p=166013"},"modified":"2026-05-11T01:21:38","modified_gmt":"2026-05-11T06:51:38","slug":"england-pacer-gus-atkinson-hit-by-josh-tongue-bouncer-in-county-championship","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/newslink360.space\/?p=166013","title":{"rendered":"England pacer Gus Atkinson hit by Josh Tongue bouncer in County Championship"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><br \/>\n<\/p>\n<div id=\"content-body-70964633\" itemprop=\"articleBody\">England fast bowler Gus Atkinson was substituted \u200bout of a County Championship \u200cmatch on Sunday and later \u200bfailed a concussion \u2060test after being hit on the helmet twice while batting, raising \u200cconcerns about his fitness ahead of next \u200cmonth\u2019s test series against \u200cNew \u2060Zealand.<\/p>\n<p>The seamer was struck \u2060twice on the head by international teammate Josh Tongue in Surrey\u2019s \u200bmatch against Nottinghamshire \u200cbut initially continued batting after on-field assessments.<\/p>\n<p>The 28-year-old later called for further treatment \u200cbefore retiring hurt on 27.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cObviously, \u200bhe failed a concussion test, that\u2019s why \u2060he is out of this game,\u201d Surrey head coach Gareth \u200cBatty said in a video posted on the team\u2019s Instagram page.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cHe felt like he was OK, but duty of care comes \u200cinto it. We will keep an \u200beye on him now and make sure he \u2060is healthy.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>England is scheduled to \u2060host New Zealand in a three-match Test series \u200cbeginning at Lord\u2019s on June 4.<\/p>\n<p class=\"publish-time\" id=\"end-of-article\">Published on May 11, 2026<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><br \/>\n<br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/sportstar.thehindu.com\/cricket\/gus-atkinson-inury-update-england-pacer-fails-concussion-test-josh-tongue-bouncer-county-championship\/article70964633.ece\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Source link <\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>England fast bowler Gus Atkinson was substituted \u200bout of a County Championship \u200cmatch on Sunday and later \u200bfailed a concussion \u2060test after being hit on the helmet twice while batting, raising \u200cconcerns about his fitness ahead of next \u200cmonth\u2019s test series against \u200cNew \u2060Zealand. The seamer was struck \u2060twice on the head by international teammate&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":166014,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_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},"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[9],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-166013","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\/2025-08-01T103149Z_156906179_UP1EL810T90J7_RTRMADP_3_CRICKET-TEST-ENG-IND.JPG","jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/pgnRh4-HbD","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/newslink360.space\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/166013","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=166013"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/newslink360.space\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/166013\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newslink360.space\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/166014"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/newslink360.space\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=166013"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newslink360.space\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=166013"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newslink360.space\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=166013"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}