{"id":11548,"date":"2012-06-16T23:27:39","date_gmt":"2012-06-16T21:27:39","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/06\/update-1-rugby-pietersen-cuts-short-england-comeback\/"},"modified":"2012-06-16T23:27:39","modified_gmt":"2012-06-16T21:27:39","slug":"update-1-rugby-pietersen-cuts-short-england-comeback","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/press\/update-1-rugby-pietersen-cuts-short-england-comeback\/","title":{"rendered":"UPDATE 1-Rugby-Pietersen cuts short England comeback"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>\t\t<span><\/span><\/p>\n<p>(Adds details)<span><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span><\/span><\/p>\n<p>By Ken Borland<\/p>\n<p><span><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span class=\"articleLocation\">JOHANNESBURG, June 16<\/span> (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 attack.<\/p>\n<p><span><\/span><\/p>\n<p>Eighthman Pierre Spies helped to send the ball wide for<br \/>\nPietersen to dive over for the match-winning try.<\/p>\n<p><span><\/span><\/p>\n<p>The Springbok forwards had pounded England with their<br \/>\ndirect, powerful running in the first half, earning tries for<br \/>\nbruising flank Willem Alberts, hooker Bismarck du Plessis and<br \/>\nscrumhalf Francois Hougaard.<\/p>\n<p><span><\/span><\/p>\n<p>South Africa led 22-3 after the first quarter and England<br \/>\nshowed their character through two tries by scrumhalf Ben Youngs<br \/>\nand one by flyhalf Toby Flood, who also scored three conversions<br \/>\nand two penalties in a faultless goal-kicking display.<\/p>\n<p><span><\/span><\/p>\n<p>But the single moment of magic of Pietersen denied England<br \/>\nfrom pulling off a comeback victory.<br \/>\n\u00a0 <span class=\"label\"><strong>Continued&#8230;<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>(Adds details) 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 stretched their lead to 28-10 after 47 minutes before England clawed their way [&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-11548","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\/11548","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=11548"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/press\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11548\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/press\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=11548"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/press\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=11548"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/press\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=11548"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}