{"id":418600,"date":"2026-01-17T07:20:07","date_gmt":"2026-01-17T07:20:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/418600\/"},"modified":"2026-01-17T07:20:07","modified_gmt":"2026-01-17T07:20:07","slug":"rugby-rugby-wallabies-skipper-wilson-undergoes-minor-knee-operation","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/418600\/","title":{"rendered":"Rugby: Rugby-Wallabies skipper Wilson undergoes minor knee operation"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Jan 17 (Reuters) &#8211; \u200cAustralia captain Harry Wilson will \u200cmiss the start of the \u200cSuper Rugby Pacific season after undergoing minor surgery on his right knee, the \u200dQueensland Reds said on \u200dSaturday.<\/p>\n<p>The number eight \u200csustained the injury in August during \u200dthe \u200bWallabies&#8217; Rugby Championship win against the South Africa \u2060in Johannesburg.<\/p>\n<p>Wilson underwent arthroscopic surgery on \u200cFriday and is expected to be \u2060sidelined for \u200dabout six weeks, the Reds said.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIt&#8217;s great news that the \u200dsurgery has gone well,&#8221; Reds \u200chead coach Les Kiss said. &#8220;The opportunity now is for our other Reds backrowers to step up and show their wares.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>The Reds are scheduled to face the New \u200cSouth Wales Waratahs in Sydney on February 13 in their opening Super \u200bRugby Pacific match.<\/p>\n<p> (Reporting by Karan Prashant Saxena in Bengaluru; Editing by Peter Rutherford)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Jan 17 (Reuters) &#8211; \u200cAustralia captain Harry Wilson will \u200cmiss the start of the \u200cSuper Rugby Pacific season&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":418601,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[567],"tags":[64,63,6675,760,85],"class_list":{"0":"post-418600","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-na","11":"tag-rugby","12":"tag-sports"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/418600","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=418600"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/418600\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/418601"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=418600"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=418600"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=418600"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}