{"id":330800,"date":"2025-12-06T04:19:08","date_gmt":"2025-12-06T04:19:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/330800\/"},"modified":"2025-12-06T04:19:08","modified_gmt":"2025-12-06T04:19:08","slug":"emoni-narawa-shares-extent-of-eden-park-injury-that-ended-his-all-blacks-season","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/330800\/","title":{"rendered":"Emoni Narawa shares extent of Eden Park injury that ended his All Blacks season"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Opportunities in the black jersey have been few and far between for <a href=\"https:\/\/www.rugbypass.com\/players\/emoni-narawa\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Emoni Narawa<\/a> to begin his international career, and in another cruel blow, an injury ended his 2025 campaign as quickly as it began.<\/p>\n<p>While the 26-year-old was brought into the starting XV for game two of July\u2019s <a href=\"https:\/\/www.rugbypass.com\/teams\/france\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">France<\/a> series after injuries to <a href=\"https:\/\/www.rugbypass.com\/players\/sevu-reece\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Sevu Reece<\/a> and <a href=\"https:\/\/www.rugbypass.com\/players\/caleb-clarke\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Caleb Clarke<\/a>, it was game one against <a href=\"https:\/\/www.rugbypass.com\/teams\/south-africa\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">South Africa<\/a> in the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.rugbypass.com\/the-rugby-championship\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Rugby Championship<\/a> where he earned a call-up on form.<\/p>\n<p>It was a dream start for the Chiefs\u2019 flyer, who scored just moments into the Test, collecting a cross-field kick with a diving catch before finding his feet and throwing a dummy that saw him glide past the final defender, Cheslin Kolbe.<\/p>\n<p>But soon after play restarted, Narawa contested another kick, and this time came away second-best.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIt was about four minutes into the game when I went up to contest a high ball and got a direct knee to the ribs,\u201d he reflected this week at <a href=\"https:\/\/www.rugbypass.com\/teams\/chiefs\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Chiefs<\/a> HQ. \u201cI thought I was just winded at first, but I tried to take a deep breath and just couldn\u2019t.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Opportunities in the black jersey have been few and far between for Emoni Narawa to begin his international&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":330801,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[567],"tags":[64,63,760,85],"class_list":{"0":"post-330800","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-rugby","8":"tag-au","9":"tag-australia","10":"tag-rugby","11":"tag-sports"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/330800","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=330800"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/330800\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/330801"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=330800"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=330800"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=330800"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}