{"id":455486,"date":"2026-03-03T14:59:08","date_gmt":"2026-03-03T14:59:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/455486\/"},"modified":"2026-03-03T14:59:08","modified_gmt":"2026-03-03T14:59:08","slug":"jai-field-wigan-warriors-full-back-out-for-four-to-six-weeks-with-appendicitis","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/455486\/","title":{"rendered":"Jai Field: Wigan Warriors full-back out for four to six weeks with appendicitis"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Wigan Warriors full-back Jai Field faces four to six weeks on the sidelines after being diagnosed with appendicitis.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">The Super League club <a href=\"https:\/\/www.wiganwarriors.com\/news\/2026\/march\/03\/jai-field-sidelined-\/\" class=\"ssrcss-1fqyhkk-InlineLink e1kn3p7n0\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">said, external<\/a> the Australian was admitted to hospital on Monday before receiving the diagnosis.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">The 28-year-old had surgery on Monday afternoon and will now be out for at least the rest of March.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">&#8220;We are confident that Jai will make a full and speedy recovery and our thoughts and best wishes are with him at this time,&#8221; the club added.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Field has made three appearances for Wigan this season, all in Super League.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">He has scored four tries, including two in their <a href=\"https:\/\/www.bbc.co.uk\/sport\/rugby-league\/articles\/cy8grze483mo\" class=\"ssrcss-1fqyhkk-InlineLink e1kn3p7n0\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">54-0 thrashing of borough rivals Leigh Leopards<\/a> on Thursday.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Wigan Warriors full-back Jai Field faces four to six weeks on the sidelines after being diagnosed with appendicitis.&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":455487,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[35],"tags":[5903,101,56,54,55],"class_list":["post-455486","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-rugby","tag-rugby","tag-sports","tag-uk","tag-united-kingdom","tag-unitedkingdom"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/455486","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=455486"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/455486\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/455487"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=455486"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=455486"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=455486"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}