{"id":13645,"date":"2012-08-19T02:57:32","date_gmt":"2012-08-19T00:57:32","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/08\/update-3-cricket-proteas-build-lead-after-bairstow-lifts-england\/"},"modified":"2012-08-19T02:57:32","modified_gmt":"2012-08-19T00:57:32","slug":"update-3-cricket-proteas-build-lead-after-bairstow-lifts-england","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/press\/update-3-cricket-proteas-build-lead-after-bairstow-lifts-england\/","title":{"rendered":"UPDATE 3-Cricket-Proteas build lead after Bairstow lifts England"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>\t\t<span><\/span><\/p>\n<p>(Adds quotes)<span><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span><\/span><\/p>\n<p>* South Africa lead by 139 in final test<\/p>\n<p><span><\/span><\/p>\n<p>* England claim three late wickets<\/p>\n<p><span><\/span><\/p>\n<p>* Bairstow misses out on maiden ton<\/p>\n<p><span><\/span><\/p>\n<p>By Richard Sydenham<\/p>\n<p><span><\/span><\/p>\n<p>LONDON, Aug 18 &#8211; Jonny Bairstow fell five runs short of a<br \/>\nmaiden test century on Saturday before South Africa took their<br \/>\nlead in the match to 139 at the end of day three of the third<br \/>\nand final test against England at Lord&#8217;s.<\/p>\n<p><span><\/span><\/p>\n<p>South Africa closed on 145 for three after England claimed<br \/>\nthe wickets of Proteas captain Graeme Smith (23) and fellow<br \/>\nopener Alviro Petersen (24) after tea, and the key scalp of<br \/>\nJacques Kallis (31) late on.<\/p>\n<p><span><\/span><\/p>\n<p>&#8220;It was fantastic (to get Kallis at the end),&#8221; Bairstow told<br \/>\nreporters. &#8220;We were toiling hard all afternoon so to come away<br \/>\nwith that important wicket was fantastic.<\/p>\n<p><span><\/span><\/p>\n<p>&#8220;It&#8217;s pretty level now. There&#8217;s two days to go and a lot of<br \/>\ncricket left. If we can get a few early wickets we will be<br \/>\nlooking to chase down whatever they set us.&#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) * South Africa lead by 139 in final test * England claim three late wickets * Bairstow misses out on maiden ton By Richard Sydenham LONDON, Aug 18 &#8211; Jonny Bairstow fell five runs short of a maiden test century on Saturday before South Africa took their lead in the match to 139 [&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-13645","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\/13645","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=13645"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/press\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13645\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/press\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=13645"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/press\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=13645"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/press\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=13645"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}