{"id":13703,"date":"2012-08-21T03:02:47","date_gmt":"2012-08-21T01:02:47","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/08\/update-4-cricket-south-africa-take-number-one-spot-from-england\/"},"modified":"2012-08-21T03:02:47","modified_gmt":"2012-08-21T01:02:47","slug":"update-4-cricket-south-africa-take-number-one-spot-from-england","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/press\/update-4-cricket-south-africa-take-number-one-spot-from-england\/","title":{"rendered":"UPDATE 4-Cricket-South Africa take number one spot from England"},"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 20 (Reuters) &#8211; South Africa replaced England at<br \/>\nthe top of the world test rankings on Monday after defeating the<br \/>\nhome side by 51 runs at Lord&#8217;s to win their three-test series<br \/>\n2-0.<\/p>\n<p><span><\/span><\/p>\n<p>England, set a record 346 for victory, were dismissed for<br \/>\n294 after some plucky counter-attacking by Matt Prior (73),<br \/>\nJonny Bairstow (54), Graeme Swann (41) and Stuart Broad (37).<\/p>\n<p><span><\/span><\/p>\n<p>Jonathan Trott also chipped in with 63 and for a time it<br \/>\nlooked like England could pull off a miracle but ultimately the<br \/>\ntarget was just too high.<\/p>\n<p><span><\/span><\/p>\n<p>The end of the match and the series was sealed when last man<br \/>\nSteven Finn was caught by second slip Jacques Kallis off Vernon<br \/>\nPhilander, who finished with two wickets in two balls for<br \/>\nfigures of five for 30. Philander had also played two vital<br \/>\ninnings in the match of 61 and 35.<\/p>\n<p><span><\/span><\/p>\n<p>&#8220;South Africa definitely played the better over the course<br \/>\nof the three tests,&#8221; England captain Andrew Strauss said.<\/p>\n<p><span><\/span><\/p>\n<p>&#8220;This match was how I envisaged all three games going &#8211; hard<br \/>\nfought and small margins being the difference.<\/p>\n<p><span><\/span><\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Prior and Swann played incredibly well and it was during<br \/>\ntheir partnership when I thought a win was getting into the<br \/>\nrealms of possibility, But I can&#8217;t fault the hunger or desire of<br \/>\nour guys. South Africa were just a bit too good and they deserve<br \/>\nall the credit they get.&#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 20 (Reuters) &#8211; South Africa replaced England at the top of the world test rankings on Monday after defeating the home side by 51 runs at Lord&#8217;s to win their three-test series 2-0. England, set a record 346 for victory, were dismissed for 294 after some plucky counter-attacking [&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-13703","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\/13703","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=13703"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/press\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13703\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/press\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=13703"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/press\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=13703"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/press\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=13703"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}