{"id":13619,"date":"2012-08-18T02:55:41","date_gmt":"2012-08-18T00:55:41","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/08\/update-2-cricket-bairstow-leads-england-fightback-v-s-africa\/"},"modified":"2012-08-18T02:55:41","modified_gmt":"2012-08-18T00:55:41","slug":"update-2-cricket-bairstow-leads-england-fightback-v-s-africa","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/press\/update-2-cricket-bairstow-leads-england-fightback-v-s-africa\/","title":{"rendered":"UPDATE 2-Cricket-Bairstow leads England fightback v S.Africa"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>\t\t<span><\/span><\/p>\n<p>(Updates at close)<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 17 (Reuters) &#8211; Jonny Bairstow hit the highest<br \/>\nscore of the match to lead an England fightback against South<br \/>\nAfrica on day two of the third and final test on Friday, keeping<br \/>\nalive their hopes of the win they need to square the series.<\/p>\n<p><span><\/span><\/p>\n<p>England were 208 for five at stumps, trailing the tourists&#8217;<br \/>\nfirst innings by 101 runs, after Bairstow&#8217;s innings of 72 not<br \/>\nout in close on four hours at Lord&#8217;s. It was his highest test<br \/>\nscore in his fourth match. Matt Prior was unbeaten on 22.<\/p>\n<p><span><\/span><\/p>\n<p>South Africa were earlier dismissed for 309 before lunch, as<br \/>\nnumber eight Vernon Philander made a test best 61, the same<br \/>\nscore JP Duminy registered on Thursday. It has so far been a<br \/>\nseesaw contest with the game now evenly poised.<\/p>\n<p><span><\/span><\/p>\n<p>Bairstow, who only returned to the team because of Kevin<br \/>\nPietersen&#8217;s controversial omission, batted with maturity and<br \/>\npatience to help rescue England after they had slumped to 54 for<br \/>\nfour after lunch. Ian Bell hit a battling 58 and put on 124 with<br \/>\nBairstow for the fifth wicket.<\/p>\n<p><span><\/span><\/p>\n<p>England must win to draw the series, following their loss by<br \/>\nan innings and 12 runs in the first match at The Oval. South<br \/>\nAfrica will leapfrog them and take over at the top of the world<br \/>\nrankings if they avoid a defeat.  <\/p>\n<p> (Editing by Ken Ferris)<\/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>(Updates at close) By Richard Sydenham LONDON Aug 17 (Reuters) &#8211; Jonny Bairstow hit the highest score of the match to lead an England fightback against South Africa on day two of the third and final test on Friday, keeping alive their hopes of the win they need to square the series. England were 208 [&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-13619","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\/13619","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=13619"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/press\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13619\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/press\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=13619"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/press\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=13619"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/press\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=13619"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}