{"id":13113,"date":"2012-08-03T01:56:30","date_gmt":"2012-08-02T23:56:30","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/08\/cricket-centurion-petersen-makes-england-pay-for-dropped-catch\/"},"modified":"2012-08-03T01:56:30","modified_gmt":"2012-08-02T23:56:30","slug":"cricket-centurion-petersen-makes-england-pay-for-dropped-catch","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/press\/cricket-centurion-petersen-makes-england-pay-for-dropped-catch\/","title":{"rendered":"Cricket-Centurion Petersen makes England pay for dropped catch"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>\t\t<span><\/span><\/p>\n<p>By Richard Sydenham<span><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span><\/span><\/p>\n<p>LEEDS, England, Aug 2 &#8211; Alviro Petersen punished England for<br \/>\ndropping him early on by scoring his fourth test century as<br \/>\nSouth Africa reached 262 for five at the close of the first day<br \/>\nof the second test on Thursday.<\/p>\n<p><span><\/span><\/p>\n<p>Petersen was 124 not out at stumps, after England won the<br \/>\ntoss, and Jacques Rudolph was on one following a seesaw day that<br \/>\nbegan with South Africa scoring freely in the sun before England<br \/>\nfought back after lunch in overcast conditions.<\/p>\n<p><span><\/span><\/p>\n<p>Petersen was given out lbw on 119 to Steven Finn but<br \/>\nsuccessfully reviewed umpire Steve Davis&#8217;s decision as replays<br \/>\nshowed the ball would have bounced over the stumps.<\/p>\n<p><span><\/span><\/p>\n<p>He had earlier reached a well-crafted century with his 11th<br \/>\nboundary, a pull off Stuart Broad, on a day which saw a Finn<br \/>\nwicket cancelled out by a dead ball call from the umpire.<\/p>\n<p><span><\/span><\/p>\n<p>Finn&#8217;s long-standing problem of clipping the stumps at the<br \/>\nnon-striker&#8217;s end with his knee in his follow-through cost him.<\/p>\n<p><span><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span><\/span><\/p>\n<p>He did it three times in the morning and on the fourth<br \/>\noccasion, when Graeme Smith edged to Andrew Strauss at slip<br \/>\nwhile on six, the ball was ruled out.<\/p>\n<p><span><\/span><\/p>\n<p>Match referee Jeff Crowe said later that the batsmen had<br \/>\ncomplained that Finn&#8217;s actions were a distraction.<br \/>\n\u00a0 <span class=\"label\"><strong>Continued&#8230;<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>By Richard Sydenham LEEDS, England, Aug 2 &#8211; Alviro Petersen punished England for dropping him early on by scoring his fourth test century as South Africa reached 262 for five at the close of the first day of the second test on Thursday. Petersen was 124 not out at stumps, after England won the toss, [&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-13113","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\/13113","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=13113"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/press\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13113\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/press\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=13113"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/press\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=13113"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/press\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=13113"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}