{"id":49613,"date":"2025-05-31T20:24:26","date_gmt":"2025-05-31T17:24:26","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/sudanevents.com\/?p=49613"},"modified":"2025-05-31T20:24:26","modified_gmt":"2025-05-31T17:24:26","slug":"life-moves-on-rabada-looks-ahead-to-world-test-championship-final-after-drug-ban","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sudanevents.com\/index.php\/2025\/05\/31\/life-moves-on-rabada-looks-ahead-to-world-test-championship-final-after-drug-ban\/","title":{"rendered":"&#8216;Life Moves on&#8217; Rabada Looks ahead to World Test Championship Final after Drug Ban"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>South Africa fast bowler Kagiso Rabada said life moves on and he will never be &#8220;Mr I-Apologize-Too-Much&#8221; after serving a one-month ban for testing positive for recreational drug use at this year&#8217;s SA20 competition.<\/p>\n<p>The 30-year-old Rabada can resume playing for his country in June, after being named in South Africa&#8217;s squad for the World Test Championship final against Australia at Lord&#8217;s from June 11 to 15.<\/p>\n<p>Having already apologized for his actions in May, Rabada said he wanted to move on from the incident.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;I&#8217;m just glad to be playing again. The process was handled really well &#8230; I think, as a player, and a man, people will have their different opinions. I can live with that,&#8221; Rabada told media on Saturday before leaving for London, Reuters reported.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;There are some people who would have been disappointed and to those people I&#8217;m deeply sorry &#8230; The people closest to me are the ones I felt I let down.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;But life moves on. I&#8217;ll never be &#8216;Mr-I-Apologize-Too-Much&#8217;. But I&#8217;ll never condone that action.&#8221;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>South Africa fast bowler Kagiso Rabada said life moves on and he will never be &#8220;Mr I-Apologize-Too-Much&#8221; after serving a one-month ban for testing positive for recreational drug use at this year&#8217;s SA20 competition. The 30-year-old Rabada can resume playing for his country in June, after being named in South Africa&#8217;s squad for the World &hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":49610,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[21],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-49613","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-sport"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/sudanevents.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/49613","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/sudanevents.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/sudanevents.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sudanevents.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sudanevents.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=49613"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/sudanevents.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/49613\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":49614,"href":"https:\/\/sudanevents.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/49613\/revisions\/49614"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sudanevents.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/49610"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sudanevents.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=49613"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sudanevents.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=49613"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sudanevents.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=49613"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}