{"id":52630,"date":"2025-04-12T12:27:48","date_gmt":"2025-04-12T12:27:48","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/kede.com.br\/news\/will-pucovski-retires-at-27-after-repeated-concussions\/"},"modified":"2025-04-12T12:27:49","modified_gmt":"2025-04-12T12:27:49","slug":"will-pucovski-retires-at-27-after-repeated-concussions","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/kede.com.br\/news\/will-pucovski-retires-at-27-after-repeated-concussions\/","title":{"rendered":"Will Pucovski retires at 27 after repeated concussions"},"content":{"rendered":"<p> <br \/>\n<\/p>\n<div>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\"><b class=\"ssrcss-1xjjfut-BoldText e5tfeyi3\">Former Australia batter Will Pucovski has retired at the age of 27, saying he does not want to &#8220;risk doing any more damage&#8221; to his brain after repeated concussions.<\/b><\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">He made one Test appearance, scoring 62 against India in Sydney in 2021.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Pucovski dislocated a shoulder later in the match, ruling him out of the remainder of the series.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">He has suffered 12 known concussions during his career and last played competitively in March 2024, when he was hit by a Riley Meredith bouncer while playing for Victoria against Tasmania in the Sheffield Shield.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Pucovski said he experienced &#8220;scary&#8221; after-effects from that incident.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">&#8220;I just don&#8217;t want to risk doing any more damage to my brain than I&#8217;ve already done,&#8221; he <a href=\"https:\/\/www.sen.com.au\/news\/2025\/04\/08\/exclusive-or-will-pucovski-announces-retirement-from-cricket\" class=\"ssrcss-k8mrr8-InlineLink e1kn3p7n0\">told Australian radio station SEN.<span class=\"visually-hidden ssrcss-1f39n02-VisuallyHidden e16en2lz0\">, <!-- -->external<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><br \/>\n<br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/www.bbc.com\/sport\/cricket\/articles\/cwy0jveg7d3o\">Source link <\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Former Australia batter Will Pucovski has retired at the age of 27, saying he does not want to &#8220;risk doing any more damage&#8221; to his brain after repeated concussions. He made one Test appearance, scoring 62 against India in Sydney in 2021. Pucovski dislocated a shoulder later in the match, ruling him out of the [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":52631,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[41],"tags":[16836,16834,16835,3928],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/kede.com.br\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/52630"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/kede.com.br\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/kede.com.br\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kede.com.br\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kede.com.br\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=52630"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/kede.com.br\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/52630\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":52632,"href":"https:\/\/kede.com.br\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/52630\/revisions\/52632"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kede.com.br\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/52631"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/kede.com.br\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=52630"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kede.com.br\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=52630"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kede.com.br\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=52630"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}