{"id":14465,"date":"2012-09-11T04:08:04","date_gmt":"2012-09-11T02:08:04","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/09\/cricket-england-v-south-africa-twenty20-abandoned\/"},"modified":"2012-09-11T04:08:04","modified_gmt":"2012-09-11T02:08:04","slug":"cricket-england-v-south-africa-twenty20-abandoned","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/press\/cricket-england-v-south-africa-twenty20-abandoned\/","title":{"rendered":"Cricket-England v South Africa Twenty20 abandoned"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>\t\t<span><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span class=\"articleLocation\">Sept 10<\/span> (Reuters) &#8211; The second Twenty20 international<br \/>\nbetween world champions England and South Africa in Manchester<br \/>\non Monday was abandoned due to persistent rain.<span><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span><\/span><\/p>\n<p>The match was reduced to nine overs per side and South<br \/>\nAfrica were led by a spectacular 47 not out from Hashim Amla as<br \/>\nthey notched up 77 for five wickets.<\/p>\n<p><span><\/span><\/p>\n<p>Steven Finn took two for 17 from his two overs as the<br \/>\nbatsmen and fielding side struggled in the greasy conditions,<br \/>\nJacques Kallis (13 not out) helping to boost the score at the<br \/>\nend with a seven-ball cameo.<\/p>\n<p><span><\/span><\/p>\n<p>The rain showed no sign of abating as England&#8217;s batsmen took<br \/>\nthe field and they never got going, opener Craig Kieswetter<br \/>\nswiping desperately at Morne Morkel&#8217;s first over.<\/p>\n<p><span><\/span><\/p>\n<p>England were 29 for two off 4.1 overs when the umpires,<br \/>\naware that five balls were required to force a result under the<br \/>\nDuckworth-Lewis method, called the players off the field.<\/p>\n<p><span><\/span><\/p>\n<p>South Africa won the first match on Saturday and can seal a<br \/>\nseries victory in the third game on Wednesday ahead of the Sept.<br \/>\n18-Oct. 7 Twenty20 World Cup in Sri Lanka.     <\/p>\n<p> (Writing by Tom Pilcher, Editing by Ed Osmond)<\/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 10 (Reuters) &#8211; The second Twenty20 international between world champions England and South Africa in Manchester on Monday was abandoned due to persistent rain. The match was reduced to nine overs per side and South Africa were led by a spectacular 47 not out from Hashim Amla as they notched up 77 for five [&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-14465","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\/14465","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=14465"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/press\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14465\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/press\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=14465"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/press\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=14465"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/press\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=14465"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}