{"id":13236,"date":"2012-08-07T02:10:04","date_gmt":"2012-08-07T00:10:04","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/08\/refile-update-2-cricket-england-s-africa-draw-after-dramatic-end\/"},"modified":"2012-08-07T02:10:04","modified_gmt":"2012-08-07T00:10:04","slug":"refile-update-2-cricket-england-s-africa-draw-after-dramatic-end","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/press\/refile-update-2-cricket-england-s-africa-draw-after-dramatic-end\/","title":{"rendered":"REFILE-UPDATE 2-Cricket-England, S.Africa draw after dramatic end"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>\t\t<span><\/span><\/p>\n<p>(Adds dropped word in headline)<span><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span><\/span><\/p>\n<p>* Broad takes five wickets to bring drama to final day<\/p>\n<p><span><\/span><\/p>\n<p>* England set 253 off 39 overs<\/p>\n<p><span><\/span><\/p>\n<p>By Richard Sydenham<\/p>\n<p><span><\/span><\/p>\n<p>LEEDS, England, Aug 6 (Reuters) &#8211; England and South Africa<br \/>\ndrew the second test on Monday after some late drama that<br \/>\noffered each team an unlikely sniff of victory on the fifth and<br \/>\nfinal day at Headingley.<\/p>\n<p><span><\/span><\/p>\n<p>The match seemed to be heading for an inevitable, mundane<br \/>\ndraw at lunch until Kevin Pietersen (three for 52) and Stuart<br \/>\nBroad (five for 69) shared eight wickets as South Africa slumped<br \/>\nfrom 120 without loss to 258 for nine.<\/p>\n<p><span><\/span><\/p>\n<p>At that point, South Africa captain Graeme Smith bravely<br \/>\ndeclared the innings and set England the difficult target of 253<br \/>\nin 39 overs.<\/p>\n<p><span><\/span><\/p>\n<p>They were on 130 for four when the teams shook hands with<br \/>\nsix overs remaining after a both sides each had a dip at<br \/>\nvictory.<\/p>\n<p><span><\/span><\/p>\n<p>South Africa stayed 1-0 ahead in the three-match series with<br \/>\none to play at Lord&#8217;s starting on August 16.<br \/>\n\u00a0 <span class=\"label\"><strong>Continued&#8230;<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>(Adds dropped word in headline) * Broad takes five wickets to bring drama to final day * England set 253 off 39 overs By Richard Sydenham LEEDS, England, Aug 6 (Reuters) &#8211; England and South Africa drew the second test on Monday after some late drama that offered each team an unlikely sniff of victory [&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-13236","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\/13236","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=13236"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/press\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13236\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/press\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=13236"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/press\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=13236"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/press\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=13236"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}