{"id":13570,"date":"2012-08-16T14:51:27","date_gmt":"2012-08-16T12:51:27","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/08\/cricket-south-africa-win-toss-bat-first-v-england\/"},"modified":"2012-08-16T14:51:27","modified_gmt":"2012-08-16T12:51:27","slug":"cricket-south-africa-win-toss-bat-first-v-england","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/press\/cricket-south-africa-win-toss-bat-first-v-england\/","title":{"rendered":"Cricket-South Africa win toss, bat first v England"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>\t\t<span><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span class=\"articleLocation\">LONDON<\/span> Aug 16 (Reuters) &#8211; South Africa won the toss and<br \/>\nopted to bat first against England in the decisive third and<br \/>\nfinal test at Lord&#8217;s on Thursday.<span><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span><\/span><\/p>\n<p>England must win the match to not only draw the series but<br \/>\nalso to remain as the world&#8217;s number one ranked team.<\/p>\n<p><span><\/span><\/p>\n<p>Teams:<\/p>\n<p><span><\/span><\/p>\n<p>England: Andrew Strauss (captain), Alastair Cook, Jonathan<br \/>\nTrott, Jonny Bairstow, Ian Bell, James Taylor, Matt Prior,<br \/>\nStuart Broad, Graeme Swann, James Anderson, Steven Finn.<\/p>\n<p><span><\/span><\/p>\n<p>South Africa: Graeme Smith (captain), Alviro Petersen,<br \/>\nHashim Amla, Jacques Kallis, AB de Villiers, Jacques Rudolph, JP<br \/>\nDuminy, Vernon Philander, Morne Morkel, Dale Steyn, Imran<br \/>\nTahir. <\/p>\n<p> (Edited by Tom Pilcher)<\/p>\n<p><span><\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"copyright\">\n<p>         \t\t\u00a9 Thomson Reuters 2012 All rights reserved<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>LONDON Aug 16 (Reuters) &#8211; South Africa won the toss and opted to bat first against England in the decisive third and final test at Lord&#8217;s on Thursday. England must win the match to not only draw the series but also to remain as the world&#8217;s number one ranked team. Teams: England: Andrew Strauss (captain), [&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-13570","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\/13570","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=13570"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/press\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13570\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/press\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=13570"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/press\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=13570"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/press\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=13570"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}