{"id":12639,"date":"2012-07-22T01:10:31","date_gmt":"2012-07-21T23:10:31","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/07\/update-3-cricket-smith-amla-hit-centuries-as-england-wilt\/"},"modified":"2012-07-22T01:10:31","modified_gmt":"2012-07-21T23:10:31","slug":"update-3-cricket-smith-amla-hit-centuries-as-england-wilt","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/press\/update-3-cricket-smith-amla-hit-centuries-as-england-wilt\/","title":{"rendered":"UPDATE 3-Cricket-Smith, Amla hit centuries as England wilt"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>\t\t<span><\/span><\/p>\n<p>(Adds quotes)<span><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span><\/span><\/p>\n<p>* Smith strikes 25th century in his 100th test<\/p>\n<p><span><\/span><\/p>\n<p>* Amla 183 not out after notching 15th test ton<\/p>\n<p><span><\/span><\/p>\n<p>* Kallis, unbeaten on 82, also eyes century<\/p>\n<p><span><\/span><\/p>\n<p>By Richard Sydenham<\/p>\n<p><span><\/span><\/p>\n<p>LONDON, July 21 (Reuters) &#8211; Graeme Smith scored a century in<br \/>\nhis 100th test and Hashim Amla was 183 not out as South Africa<br \/>\ntook control of the first test against England at stumps on the<br \/>\nthird day on Saturday.<\/p>\n<p><span><\/span><\/p>\n<p>South Africa closed on 403 for two for a first innings lead<br \/>\nof 18 runs at The Oval.<\/p>\n<p><span><\/span><\/p>\n<p>Smith stroked 131 before he played on, via his pad, to Tim<br \/>\nBresnan after lunch but Amla continued the tourists&#8217; dominance<br \/>\nsupported by Jacques Kallis, who was 82 not out at the close.<\/p>\n<p><span><\/span><\/p>\n<p>It was Smith&#8217;s 25th test century and he became the seventh<br \/>\nplayer to achieve the feat of scoring a hundred in his hundredth<br \/>\ntest after Colin Cowdrey, Gordon Greenidge, Javed Miandad, Alec<br \/>\nStewart, Inzamam-ul Haq and Ricky Ponting.<br \/>\n\u00a0 <span class=\"label\"><strong>Continued&#8230;<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>(Adds quotes) * Smith strikes 25th century in his 100th test * Amla 183 not out after notching 15th test ton * Kallis, unbeaten on 82, also eyes century By Richard Sydenham LONDON, July 21 (Reuters) &#8211; Graeme Smith scored a century in his 100th test and Hashim Amla was 183 not out as South [&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-12639","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\/12639","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=12639"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/press\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12639\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/press\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=12639"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/press\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=12639"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/press\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=12639"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}