{"id":15018,"date":"2012-09-28T05:04:29","date_gmt":"2012-09-28T03:04:29","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/09\/cricket-south-africa-wary-of-ajmal-threat\/"},"modified":"2012-09-28T05:04:29","modified_gmt":"2012-09-28T03:04:29","slug":"cricket-south-africa-wary-of-ajmal-threat","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/press\/cricket-south-africa-wary-of-ajmal-threat\/","title":{"rendered":"Cricket-South Africa wary of Ajmal threat"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>\t\t<span><\/span><\/p>\n<p>By Ranga Sirilal<span><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span class=\"articleLocation\">COLOMBO, Sept 27<\/span> (Reuters) &#8211; South Africa will study video analysis to prepare their batsmen to face Pakistan spinner Saeed Ajmal, captain A.B. De Villiers said on Thursday, a day before the teams meet in the Twenty20 World Cup Super Eights.<\/p>\n<p><span><\/span><\/p>\n<p>&#8220;He is still a world-class bowler. I don&#8217;t think a lot of the guys are reading him. We will watch the video analysis,&#8221; De Villiers told reporters.<\/p>\n<p><span><\/span><\/p>\n<p>&#8220;That&#8217;s a different story when you are out there you have got to watch the ball closely and I think even world-class players can&#8217;t read him.<\/p>\n<p><span><\/span><\/p>\n<p>&#8220;We have a good all-round team and we&#8217;ll just come out tomorrow and focus on our strengths.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p><span><\/span><\/p>\n<p>De Villiers believes the pitch will take turn.<\/p>\n<p><span><\/span><\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Two spinners looks like the way forward. But we obviously can decide tomorrow, there are still a lot of things to think about.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p><span><\/span><\/p>\n<p>Pakistan captain Mohammad Hafeez expects South Africa to focus on their experienced fast bowlers Dale Steyn and Morne Morkel.<\/p>\n<p><span><\/span><\/p>\n<p>&#8220;I think South Africa will rely on their pace attack and we know that it&#8217;s all about the strategy of the teams. We really rely on our spinners because we have something very special in our side like Saeed Ajmal with his doosra,&#8221; Hafeez said.    (Writing by Shihar Aneez, 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>By Ranga Sirilal COLOMBO, Sept 27 (Reuters) &#8211; South Africa will study video analysis to prepare their batsmen to face Pakistan spinner Saeed Ajmal, captain A.B. De Villiers said on Thursday, a day before the teams meet in the Twenty20 World Cup Super Eights. &#8220;He is still a world-class bowler. I don&#8217;t think a lot [&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-15018","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\/15018","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=15018"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/press\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15018\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/press\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=15018"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/press\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=15018"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/press\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=15018"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}