{"id":12581,"date":"2012-07-20T01:03:20","date_gmt":"2012-07-19T23:03:20","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/07\/update-3-cricket-cook-century-puts-england-on-top-v-south-africa\/"},"modified":"2012-07-20T01:03:20","modified_gmt":"2012-07-19T23:03:20","slug":"update-3-cricket-cook-century-puts-england-on-top-v-south-africa","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/press\/update-3-cricket-cook-century-puts-england-on-top-v-south-africa\/","title":{"rendered":"UPDATE 3-Cricket-Cook century puts England on top v South Africa"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>\t\t<span><\/span><\/p>\n<p>* Unbeaten Cook strikes his 20th test century<span><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span><\/span><\/p>\n<p>* Second-wicket stand with Trott boosts hosts<\/p>\n<p><span><\/span><\/p>\n<p>* Pietersen out for 42 as tourists fight back<\/p>\n<p> (Adds quotes)<\/p>\n<p><span><\/span><\/p>\n<p>By Richard Sydenham<\/p>\n<p><span><\/span><\/p>\n<p>LONDON, July 19 (Reuters) &#8211; Unflappable Alastair Cook scored<br \/>\nhis 20th test century as England dominated day one of the first<br \/>\ntest against South Africa to finish on 267 for three by the<br \/>\nclose at The Oval on Thursday.<\/p>\n<p><span><\/span><\/p>\n<p>Cook finished on 114 not out with his chanceless effort<br \/>\ncoming after he lost captain and opening partner Andrew Strauss<br \/>\nto the fourth ball of the morning before enjoying an impressive<br \/>\nsecond-wicket stand of 170 with Jonathan Trott who made 71.<\/p>\n<p><span><\/span><\/p>\n<p>South Africa fought back late on with the strike of Kevin<br \/>\nPietersen (42) in the last hour after he gloved a short Jacques<br \/>\nKallis ball to wicketkeeper AB de Villiers, who was playing<br \/>\ninstead of the retired Mark Boucher. Ian Bell was ten not out.<\/p>\n<p><span><\/span><\/p>\n<p>Strauss went lbw to Morne Morkel for a duck, though what<br \/>\ncould have been a series-defining early strike was cancelled out<br \/>\nby Cook and Trott, who eventually edged Morkel to de Villiers.<br \/>\nMorkel had figures of two for 44 at stumps.<\/p>\n<p><span><\/span><\/p>\n<p>Left-hander Cook drew level on 20 test hundreds with his<br \/>\nmentor and former England captain Graham Gooch, as well as a<br \/>\nclutch of distinguished batsmen such as Ken Barrington, Younus<br \/>\nKhan, Pietersen, Mark Waugh and Aravinda de Silva.<br \/>\n\u00a0 <span class=\"label\"><strong>Continued&#8230;<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>* Unbeaten Cook strikes his 20th test century * Second-wicket stand with Trott boosts hosts * Pietersen out for 42 as tourists fight back (Adds quotes) By Richard Sydenham LONDON, July 19 (Reuters) &#8211; Unflappable Alastair Cook scored his 20th test century as England dominated day one of the first test against South Africa to [&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-12581","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\/12581","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=12581"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/press\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12581\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/press\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=12581"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/press\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=12581"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/press\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=12581"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}