{"id":14418,"date":"2012-09-09T04:01:33","date_gmt":"2012-09-09T02:01:33","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/09\/cricket-s-africa-need-119-after-restricting-england-in-opening-t20\/"},"modified":"2012-09-09T04:01:33","modified_gmt":"2012-09-09T02:01:33","slug":"cricket-s-africa-need-119-after-restricting-england-in-opening-t20","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/press\/cricket-s-africa-need-119-after-restricting-england-in-opening-t20\/","title":{"rendered":"Cricket-S.Africa need 119 after restricting England in opening T20"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>\t\t<span><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span class=\"articleLocation\">Sept 8<\/span> (Reuters) &#8211; A spin inspired South Africa restricted<br \/>\nEngland to 118 for seven in the opening innings of the first<br \/>\nTwenty20 played at Chester-le-Street on Saturday.<span><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span><\/span><\/p>\n<p>Stooping right arm off-spinner Johan Botha and Robin<br \/>\nPeterson both claimed two wickets each, as England&#8217;s batsmen<br \/>\nfailed to fire in bright and warm conditions.<\/p>\n<p><span><\/span><\/p>\n<p>Opener Craig Kieswetter top scored with 25 from 24 balls,<br \/>\nbut there was little scoreboard impact from the English batsmen<br \/>\nwho were no match for the tourists.<\/p>\n<p><span><\/span><\/p>\n<p>Ravi Bopara could only manage six before he was caught at<br \/>\nslip of the bowling of Dale Steyn (1-13 from four overs), while<br \/>\nEoin Morgan followed shortly when he was bowled by Botha on 10.<\/p>\n<p><span><\/span><\/p>\n<p>Recalled all-rounder Jacques Kallis was superb in the field<br \/>\nfor the visitors, firstly running out Alex Hales for 11, then<br \/>\ntaking a superb diving catch to dismiss Samit Patel on four to<br \/>\nhave England at 85-7.<\/p>\n<p><span><\/span><\/p>\n<p>A late charge from captain Stuart Broad (18 not out) and<br \/>\nGraeme Swann (17 not out) ensured England posted triple figures.<\/p>\n<p><span><\/span><\/p>\n<p>England&#8217;s task in the field has been made slightly easier<br \/>\nwith South Africa opting to rest in-form batsman Hashim Amla for<br \/>\nthe first of three Twenty 20 matches.<\/p>\n<p> (Reporting By Mark Pangallo)<\/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>Sept 8 (Reuters) &#8211; A spin inspired South Africa restricted England to 118 for seven in the opening innings of the first Twenty20 played at Chester-le-Street on Saturday. Stooping right arm off-spinner Johan Botha and Robin Peterson both claimed two wickets each, as England&#8217;s batsmen failed to fire in bright and warm conditions. Opener Craig [&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-14418","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\/14418","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=14418"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/press\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14418\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/press\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=14418"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/press\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=14418"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/press\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=14418"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}