{"id":13204,"date":"2012-08-06T02:07:45","date_gmt":"2012-08-06T00:07:45","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/08\/update-1-cricket-england-toil-for-wickets-as-storms-intervene\/"},"modified":"2012-08-06T02:07:45","modified_gmt":"2012-08-06T00:07:45","slug":"update-1-cricket-england-toil-for-wickets-as-storms-intervene","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/press\/update-1-cricket-england-toil-for-wickets-as-storms-intervene\/","title":{"rendered":"UPDATE 1-Cricket-England toil for wickets as storms intervene"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>\t\t<span><\/span><\/p>\n<p>(Adds details)<span><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span><\/span><\/p>\n<p>LEEDS, England, Aug 5 &#8211; England failed to make a<br \/>\nbreakthrough when rain stopped play before tea on the fourth day<br \/>\nof the second test at Headingley on Sunday as South Africa<br \/>\nreached 39 without loss in their second innings.<\/p>\n<p><span><\/span><\/p>\n<p>Jacques Rudolph, opening in place of the injured Alviro<br \/>\nPetersen, was unbeaten on 21 while skipper Graeme Smith was on<br \/>\n17 as he continued to bat with a minor knee injury.<\/p>\n<p><span><\/span><\/p>\n<p>Thunder and lightning arrived just minutes after the players<br \/>\nleft the field with the skies over northern England turning an<br \/>\nominous dark grey.<\/p>\n<p><span><\/span><\/p>\n<p>It was a frustrating passage of play for England, who had<br \/>\nfailed to capitalise on Kevin Pietersen&#8217;s exhilarating first<br \/>\ninnings century that helped the hosts to 425 in reply to the<br \/>\nProteas&#8217; 419.<\/p>\n<p><span><\/span><\/p>\n<p>Smith survived a scare before lunch when England reviewed an<br \/>\nlbw appeal but it was rejected. Television replays showed the<br \/>\nball would have bounced over the stumps.<\/p>\n<p><span><\/span><\/p>\n<p>Apart from a couple of edges that failed to carry through to<br \/>\nthe slips the South African openers held their own.<\/p>\n<p><span><\/span><\/p>\n<p>Earlier on Sunday, Pietersen had resumed on 149 with the<br \/>\nteam on 351 for five.<\/p>\n<p><span><\/span><\/p>\n<p>England had hopes of passing South Africa&#8217;s first innings<br \/>\nand taking a significant lead, but Pietersen was out to the<br \/>\nsecond ball of the morning &#8211; lbw to Morne Morkel without adding<br \/>\nto his overnight score.<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) LEEDS, England, Aug 5 &#8211; England failed to make a breakthrough when rain stopped play before tea on the fourth day of the second test at Headingley on Sunday as South Africa reached 39 without loss in their second innings. Jacques Rudolph, opening in place of the injured Alviro Petersen, was unbeaten on [&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-13204","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\/13204","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=13204"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/press\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13204\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/press\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=13204"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/press\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=13204"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/press\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=13204"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}