{"id":212604,"date":"2025-11-05T08:31:49","date_gmt":"2025-11-05T06:31:49","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/southern-africa\/zimbabwe\/zimbabwe-sean-williams-in-rehab-for-drug-addiction-dropped-by-zimbabwe-cricket\/"},"modified":"2025-11-05T08:31:49","modified_gmt":"2025-11-05T06:31:49","slug":"zimbabwe-sean-williams-in-rehab-for-drug-addiction-dropped-by-zimbabwe-cricket","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/southern-africa\/zimbabwe\/zimbabwe-sean-williams-in-rehab-for-drug-addiction-dropped-by-zimbabwe-cricket\/","title":{"rendered":"Zimbabwe: Sean Williams in Rehab for Drug Addiction, Dropped By Zimbabwe Cricket"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<div>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"17\">Veteran Zimbabwean batter Sean Williams has checked into a rehabilitation centre after admitting to a drug addiction.<\/p>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"31\">Williams, one of the country&#8217;s most experienced cricketers, recently withdrew from the squad on the eve of the ICC Men&#8217;s T20 World Cup Africa Qualifier 2025 in Harare citing personal reasons.<\/p>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"25\">Following an internal investigation into his sudden withdrawal, Zimbabwe Cricket (ZC) said Williams confessed to struggling with a drug addiction and voluntarily checked into rehab.<\/p>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"21\">In a&#8230;<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/allafrica.com\/stories\/202511050074.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Read more on AllAfrica.com<\/a><br \/>\n<br \/>South Africa Today Africa \u2013 Southern Africa <a title=\"Zimbabwe\" href=\"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/category\/southern-africa\/zimbabwe\/\">Zimbabwe<\/a> News<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Veteran Zimbabwean batter Sean Williams has checked into a rehabilitation centre after admitting to a drug addiction. Williams, one of the country&#8217;s most experienced cricketers, recently withdrew from the squad on the eve of the ICC Men&#8217;s T20 World Cup Africa Qualifier 2025 in Harare citing personal reasons. Following an internal investigation into his sudden [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":11,"featured_media":188473,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"tdm_status":"","tdm_grid_status":"","fifu_image_url":"","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[248],"tags":[47880,258,256,7026,9943,6949,257,15650,46499,254,24290,4686,421],"class_list":["post-212604","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-zimbabwe","tag-addiction","tag-africa","tag-africa-news","tag-cricket","tag-dropped","tag-drug","tag-news","tag-rehab","tag-sean","tag-south-africa-today","tag-williams","tag-zimbabwe","tag-zimbabwe-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/212604","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/11"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=212604"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/212604\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/188473"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=212604"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=212604"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=212604"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}