{"id":13582,"date":"2012-08-17T02:51:41","date_gmt":"2012-08-17T00:51:41","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/08\/update-3-cricket-south-africa-rally-after-early-losses\/"},"modified":"2012-08-17T02:51:41","modified_gmt":"2012-08-17T00:51:41","slug":"update-3-cricket-south-africa-rally-after-early-losses","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/press\/update-3-cricket-south-africa-rally-after-early-losses\/","title":{"rendered":"UPDATE 3-Cricket-South Africa rally after early losses"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>\t\t<span><\/span><\/p>\n<p>(Adds quotes)<span><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span><\/span><\/p>\n<p>By Richard Sydenham<\/p>\n<p><span><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span class=\"articleLocation\">LONDON<\/span> Aug 16 (Reuters) &#8211; A battling half-century from JP<br \/>\nDuminy and a test best 46 not out from tailender Vernon<br \/>\nPhilander led South Africa&#8217;s fightback as they closed on 262 for<br \/>\nseven on the first day of the third and final test on Thursday.<\/p>\n<p><span><\/span><\/p>\n<p>Play ended early due to bad light and a power cut. Three of<br \/>\nthe four floodlights were functioning when the players left the<br \/>\nfield with 14 balls left. Dale Steyn was also unbeaten, on 21.<\/p>\n<p><span><\/span><\/p>\n<p>England must win the match at Lord&#8217;s to square the series<br \/>\nand retain their number one status in the world rankings. South<br \/>\nAfrica will leapfrog them with a draw or win.<\/p>\n<p><span><\/span><\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Things didn&#8217;t go our way in the morning, but we are pretty<br \/>\nhappy with sessions two and three,&#8221; Duminy told reporters.<\/p>\n<p><span><\/span><\/p>\n<p>&#8220;England are more on top than we are but we are happy with<br \/>\nthe fighting spirit that we showed.<\/p>\n<p><span><\/span><\/p>\n<p>&#8220;We (he and Philander) tried to build a partnership as we<br \/>\nconsider ourselves the engine room in the team, when we lose<br \/>\nearly wickets. Vernon is batting exceptionally well&#8230; He has<br \/>\nonce again showed his potential.<\/p>\n<p><span><\/span><\/p>\n<p>&#8220;We would like to get to 300 if we can. Anything above that<br \/>\nwould be a bonus.&#8221;<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) By Richard Sydenham LONDON Aug 16 (Reuters) &#8211; A battling half-century from JP Duminy and a test best 46 not out from tailender Vernon Philander led South Africa&#8217;s fightback as they closed on 262 for seven on the first day of the third and final test on Thursday. Play ended early due to [&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-13582","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\/13582","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=13582"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/press\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13582\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/press\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=13582"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/press\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=13582"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/press\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=13582"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}