{"id":13648,"date":"2012-08-19T02:57:36","date_gmt":"2012-08-19T00:57:36","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/08\/update-1-cricket-proteas-look-to-build-lead-after-bairstow-lifts-england\/"},"modified":"2012-08-19T02:57:36","modified_gmt":"2012-08-19T00:57:36","slug":"update-1-cricket-proteas-look-to-build-lead-after-bairstow-lifts-england","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/press\/update-1-cricket-proteas-look-to-build-lead-after-bairstow-lifts-england\/","title":{"rendered":"UPDATE 1-Cricket-Proteas look to build lead after Bairstow lifts England"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>\t\t<span><\/span><\/p>\n<p>(Updates at tea)<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 18 (Reuters) &#8211; Jonny Bairstow fell five runs<br \/>\nshort of a maiden test century on Saturday before South Africa<br \/>\nsafely negotiated the start of their second innings, reaching 33<br \/>\nwithout loss at tea on day three of the third and final test<br \/>\nagainst England at Lord&#8217;s.<\/p>\n<p><span><\/span><\/p>\n<p>Alviro Petersen was 20 not out and captain Graeme Smith was<br \/>\non 13 as the Proteas took a lead of 27 runs, with seven sessions<br \/>\nremaining in the match and series. England were earlier bowled<br \/>\nout for 315 in reply to South Africa&#8217;s first innings 309.<\/p>\n<p><span><\/span><\/p>\n<p>Fast bowlers Morne Morkel (four for 80) and Dale Steyn (four<br \/>\nfor 94) did most of the damage for the tourists.<\/p>\n<p><span><\/span><\/p>\n<p>England must win the match to square the series and prevent<br \/>\nSouth Africa leapfrogging them at the top of the world rankings.<\/p>\n<p><span><\/span><\/p>\n<p>Bairstow, in the team for the omitted Kevin Pietersen, was<br \/>\nbowled before lunch for 95 by Morkel. It was a courageous effort<br \/>\nby the 22-year-old after coming to the crease at 54 for four.<\/p>\n<p><span><\/span><\/p>\n<p>(Editing by Stephen Wood)<\/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 tea) By Richard Sydenham LONDON Aug 18 (Reuters) &#8211; Jonny Bairstow fell five runs short of a maiden test century on Saturday before South Africa safely negotiated the start of their second innings, reaching 33 without loss at tea on day three of the third and final test against England at Lord&#8217;s. Alviro [&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-13648","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\/13648","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=13648"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/press\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13648\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/press\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=13648"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/press\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=13648"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/press\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=13648"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}