{"id":13668,"date":"2012-08-20T02:59:59","date_gmt":"2012-08-20T00:59:59","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/08\/update-3-cricket-south-africa-close-in-on-series-victory\/"},"modified":"2012-08-20T02:59:59","modified_gmt":"2012-08-20T00:59:59","slug":"update-3-cricket-south-africa-close-in-on-series-victory","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/press\/update-3-cricket-south-africa-close-in-on-series-victory\/","title":{"rendered":"UPDATE 3-Cricket-South Africa close in on series victory"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>\t\t<span><\/span><\/p>\n<p>* England 16-2 in second innings<span><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span><\/span><\/p>\n<p>* They need 346 to win<\/p>\n<p><span><\/span><\/p>\n<p>* If England fail to win, South Africa go top of test<br \/>\nrankings<\/p>\n<p> (Adds quotes)<\/p>\n<p><span><\/span><\/p>\n<p>By Richard Sydenham<\/p>\n<p><span><\/span><\/p>\n<p>LONDON, Aug 19 (Reuters) &#8211; England slumped to 16 for two at<br \/>\nclose of play against South Africa at Lord&#8217;s on Sunday, as their<br \/>\npursuit of 346 to win the third and final test and square the<br \/>\nseries started badly.<\/p>\n<p><span><\/span><\/p>\n<p>Jonathan Trott was six not out in 54 arduous minutes and Ian<br \/>\nBell had four, after openers Alastair Cook (3) and Andrew<br \/>\nStrauss (1) both fell lbw to Vernon Philander.<\/p>\n<p><span><\/span><\/p>\n<p>England, who need a further 330, were given a minimum 103<br \/>\novers to register what would be their highest fourth innings<br \/>\nscore to win a test, and also the most on the ground.<\/p>\n<p><span><\/span><\/p>\n<p>Only West Indies have managed 300 or more (344 for one in<br \/>\n1984) in the fourth innings to win a Lord&#8217;s test. So history is<br \/>\nagainst England, who must win if they are to draw the series 1-1<br \/>\nand prevent South Africa from taking the world number one<br \/>\nranking from them.<\/p>\n<p><span><\/span><\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Of course we are thinking of winning,&#8221; South Africa&#8217;s<br \/>\nHashim Amla told reporters, after scoring his 16th test century.<br \/>\n&#8220;Fortunately we managed to take two wickets which has put us in<br \/>\na good position, but it will still take a lot of hard work. If<br \/>\nwe show the intensity we showed tonight, it should help.<br \/>\n\u00a0 <span class=\"label\"><strong>Continued&#8230;<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>* England 16-2 in second innings * They need 346 to win * If England fail to win, South Africa go top of test rankings (Adds quotes) By Richard Sydenham LONDON, Aug 19 (Reuters) &#8211; England slumped to 16 for two at close of play against South Africa at Lord&#8217;s on Sunday, as their pursuit [&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-13668","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\/13668","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=13668"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/press\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13668\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/press\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=13668"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/press\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=13668"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/press\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=13668"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}