{"id":14880,"date":"2012-09-22T16:44:34","date_gmt":"2012-09-22T14:44:34","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/09\/cricket-clinical-south-africa-beat-sri-lanka-by-32-runs\/"},"modified":"2012-09-22T16:44:34","modified_gmt":"2012-09-22T14:44:34","slug":"cricket-clinical-south-africa-beat-sri-lanka-by-32-runs","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/press\/cricket-clinical-south-africa-beat-sri-lanka-by-32-runs\/","title":{"rendered":"Cricket-Clinical South Africa beat Sri Lanka by 32 runs"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>\t\t<span><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span class=\"articleLocation\">HAMBANTOTA, Sri Lanka, Sept 22<\/span> (Reuters) &#8211; A clinical performance from South Africa saw them beat Sri Lanka by 32 runs in a rain-curtailed Group C match of the Twenty20 World Cup at Hambantota on Saturday.<span><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span><\/span><\/p>\n<p>Heavy rain reduced the contest to seven overs a side and South Africa, put in to bat first, ran up an impressive total of 78 for four wickets.<\/p>\n<p><span><\/span><\/p>\n<p>Skipper AB de Villiers played a great hand to score 30 off just 13 balls with two sixes and a four and JP Duminy provided the finishing touches with a four and a six off the last two deliveries of the innings.<\/p>\n<p><span><\/span><\/p>\n<p>The total proved to be a steep ask for Sri Lanka and their chase was made even more difficult when flamboyant opener Tillakaratne Dilshan was run out without facing a ball.<\/p>\n<p><span><\/span><\/p>\n<p>The South African bowlers bowled a tight line, and helped by some sharp fielding, restricted Sri Lanka to 46 for five wickets as none of the hosts&#8217; batsmen were able to get a start.<\/p>\n<p><span><\/span><\/p>\n<p>Dale Steyn was the pick of the bowlers with two wickets for 10 runs off his two overs. Dilshan Munaweera and Kumar Sangakkara top-scored for the hosts with 13 runs each.<\/p>\n<p><span><\/span><\/p>\n<p>Both teams have qualified to play in the Super Eight stage of the tournament.   (Editing by Sudipto Ganguly)<\/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>HAMBANTOTA, Sri Lanka, Sept 22 (Reuters) &#8211; A clinical performance from South Africa saw them beat Sri Lanka by 32 runs in a rain-curtailed Group C match of the Twenty20 World Cup at Hambantota on Saturday. Heavy rain reduced the contest to seven overs a side and South Africa, put in to bat first, ran [&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-14880","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\/14880","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=14880"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/press\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14880\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/press\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=14880"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/press\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=14880"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/press\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=14880"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}