{"id":14564,"date":"2012-09-13T04:16:05","date_gmt":"2012-09-13T02:16:05","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/09\/cricket-england-head-for-twenty20-title-defence-on-winning-note\/"},"modified":"2012-09-13T04:16:05","modified_gmt":"2012-09-13T02:16:05","slug":"cricket-england-head-for-twenty20-title-defence-on-winning-note","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/press\/cricket-england-head-for-twenty20-title-defence-on-winning-note\/","title":{"rendered":"Cricket-England head for Twenty20 title defence on winning note"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>\t\t<span><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span class=\"articleLocation\">Sept 12<\/span> (Reuters) &#8211; England will depart for their Twenty20<br \/>\nWorld Cup defence in Sri Lanka in good heart after squaring the<br \/>\nthree-match series against South Africa with an emphatic 28-run<br \/>\nwin at Edgbaston on Wednesday.<span><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span><\/span><\/p>\n<p>In a match reduced to 11 overs a side after heavy rain left<br \/>\nparts of the outfield soggy, England piled up 118 for five, a<br \/>\ntotal that proved more than enough as they restricted South<br \/>\nAfrica to 90 for five in reply.<\/p>\n<p><span><\/span><\/p>\n<p>Opener Craig Kieswetter top-scored with 50 and big-hitting<br \/>\nJos Buttler weighed in with an inventive cameo of 32 from just<br \/>\n10 balls.<\/p>\n<p><span><\/span><\/p>\n<p>Buttler smashed the ball to all parts, hitting three sixes<br \/>\nin the penultimate over bowled by Wayne Parnell from which<br \/>\nEngland took a massive 32 runs.<\/p>\n<p><span><\/span><\/p>\n<p>Tim Bresnan and Graeme Swann took two wickets apiece as<br \/>\nSouth Africa&#8217;s challenge fizzled out once Hashim Amla was caught<br \/>\nin the deep for 36.<\/p>\n<p><span><\/span><\/p>\n<p>South Africa won the first game of the series at<br \/>\nChester-le-Street and the second at Old Trafford was abandoned.<\/p>\n<p><span><\/span><\/p>\n<p>England begin their Twenty20 World Cup campaign against<br \/>\nAfghanistan on Sept. 21 in Pallekele. South Africa start the<br \/>\nprevious day against Zimbabwe in Hambantota.<\/p>\n<p> (Writing by Justin Palmer, 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 12 (Reuters) &#8211; England will depart for their Twenty20 World Cup defence in Sri Lanka in good heart after squaring the three-match series against South Africa with an emphatic 28-run win at Edgbaston on Wednesday. In a match reduced to 11 overs a side after heavy rain left parts of the outfield soggy, England [&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-14564","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\/14564","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=14564"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/press\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14564\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/press\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=14564"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/press\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=14564"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/press\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=14564"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}