{"id":11547,"date":"2012-06-16T23:27:38","date_gmt":"2012-06-16T21:27:38","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/06\/update-2-rugby-pietersen-helps-s-africa-cut-short-england-rally\/"},"modified":"2012-06-16T23:27:38","modified_gmt":"2012-06-16T21:27:38","slug":"update-2-rugby-pietersen-helps-s-africa-cut-short-england-rally","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/press\/update-2-rugby-pietersen-helps-s-africa-cut-short-england-rally\/","title":{"rendered":"UPDATE 2-Rugby-Pietersen helps S.Africa cut short England rally"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>\t\t<span><\/span><\/p>\n<p>* South Africa beat England 36-27<span><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span><\/span><\/p>\n<p>* Springboks take 2-0 lead in series<\/p>\n<p> (Adds quotes)<\/p>\n<p><span><\/span><\/p>\n<p>By Ken Borland<\/p>\n<p><span><\/span><\/p>\n<p>JOHANNESBURG, June 16 (Reuters) &#8211; Wing JP Pietersen helped<br \/>\nSouth Africa to fight off a stirring England comeback to win the<br \/>\nsecond test 36-27 at Ellis Park on Saturday.<\/p>\n<p><span><\/span><\/p>\n<p>South Africa dominated the first half and had stretched<br \/>\ntheir lead to 28-10 after 47 minutes before England clawed their<br \/>\nway back to 31-27 with 15 minutes remaining.<\/p>\n<p><span><\/span><\/p>\n<p>But their run was halted when Pietersen set off from his own<br \/>\nhalf, bumping off defenders, to put the Springboks on the<br \/>\nattack.<\/p>\n<p><span><\/span><\/p>\n<p>Forward Pierre Spies helped to send the ball wide for<br \/>\nPietersen to dive over for the match-winning try and give the<br \/>\nhome team a 2-0 lead in the three-game series.<\/p>\n<p><span><\/span><\/p>\n<p>&#8220;\u201cEngland can be really proud of their performance,&#8221; South<br \/>\nAfrica coach Heyneke Meyer told reporters. &#8220;You can&#8217;t coach guts<br \/>\nand commitment.<\/p>\n<p><span><\/span><\/p>\n<p>&#8220;They&#8217;re a young team and they will make mistakes but they<br \/>\nnever say die and I knew we would really battle against them.&#8221;<br \/>\n\u00a0 <span class=\"label\"><strong>Continued&#8230;<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>* South Africa beat England 36-27 * Springboks take 2-0 lead in series (Adds quotes) By Ken Borland JOHANNESBURG, June 16 (Reuters) &#8211; Wing JP Pietersen helped South Africa to fight off a stirring England comeback to win the second test 36-27 at Ellis Park on Saturday. South Africa dominated the first half and had [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_genesis_hide_title":false,"_genesis_hide_breadcrumbs":false,"_genesis_hide_singular_image":false,"_genesis_hide_footer_widgets":false,"_genesis_custom_body_class":"","_genesis_custom_post_class":"","_genesis_layout":"","ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[1],"tags":[830,2370,183],"class_list":{"0":"post-11547","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-south-africa","7":"tag-news","8":"tag-reuters","9":"tag-south-africa-2","10":"entry"},"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/press\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11547","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/press\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/press\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/press\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/press\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=11547"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/press\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11547\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/press\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=11547"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/press\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=11547"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/press\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=11547"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}