{"id":526415,"date":"2026-03-08T08:53:08","date_gmt":"2026-03-08T08:53:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/526415\/"},"modified":"2026-03-08T08:53:08","modified_gmt":"2026-03-08T08:53:08","slug":"zimbabwe-batter-ndhlovu-taken-for-scans-after-being-hit-by-illing-bouncer","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/526415\/","title":{"rendered":"Zimbabwe batter Ndhlovu taken for scans after being hit by Illing bouncer"},"content":{"rendered":"

Kelis Ndhlovu<\/a>, the Zimbabwe<\/a> opening batter, was taken from Dunedin’s University Oval ground to a local hospital after being struck by a Bree Illing<\/a> bouncer during the second ODI<\/a> between New Zealand and Zimbabwe on Sunday.<\/p>\n

Ndhlovu had stitched together an opening partnership of 25 runs with Modester Mupachikwa<\/a> when she ducked into the short delivery from Illing – she was wearing a helmet.<\/p>\n

She collapsed on the ground immediately and received medical attention on the field. She was later taken to a hospital in an ambulance.<\/p>\n

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Tendai Makusha was Ndhlovu’s concussion substitute.<\/p>\n

“We’ve received some good news. She’s responding now, which is really lovely to hear,” Kate Ebrahim<\/a>, Zimbabwe’s interim head coach, said in the press conference after the game. “She’s just recovering and we’ll just see what the scans say and we’ll move on from there.”<\/p>\n

Ebrahim mentioned that she had spoken to Mupachikwa after Ndhlovu had been taken off the field.<\/p>\n

“We briefly touched on that… I just made sure that the other opener was in a position to sort of mentally carry on. She was right there with her. Yeah, so I just touched base, made sure she was okay. A few words for her and just make sure [we] keep going with Chipo [Mugeri-Tiripano, the next batter] when she came in and we just gather quickly as a team and just assist and… first I just checked on everyone because it can be quite a shock really, for everyone.”<\/p>\n

New Zealand won the game by eight wickets, with Amelia Kerr starring with a seven-wicket haul, to take the ODI series 2-0 with one game left.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Kelis Ndhlovu, the Zimbabwe opening batter, was taken from Dunedin’s University Oval ground to a local hospital after…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":526416,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[564],"tags":[64,63,740,85],"class_list":["post-526415","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-cricket","tag-au","tag-australia","tag-cricket","tag-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/526415","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=526415"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/526415\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/526416"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=526415"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=526415"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=526415"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}