{"id":15064,"date":"2012-09-29T05:07:21","date_gmt":"2012-09-29T03:07:21","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/09\/update-2-cricket-australia-crush-india-after-record-opening-stand\/"},"modified":"2012-09-29T05:07:21","modified_gmt":"2012-09-29T03:07:21","slug":"update-2-cricket-australia-crush-india-after-record-opening-stand","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/press\/update-2-cricket-australia-crush-india-after-record-opening-stand\/","title":{"rendered":"UPDATE 2-Cricket-Australia crush India after record opening stand"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>\t\t<span><\/span><\/p>\n<p>* Warner and Watson in 133-run partnership<span><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span><\/span><\/p>\n<p>* Australia beat India by nine wickets   (Adds quotes, byline)<\/p>\n<p><span><\/span><\/p>\n<p>By Ranga Sirilal<\/p>\n<p><span><\/span><\/p>\n<p>COLOMBO, Sept 28 (Reuters) &#8211; A record Twenty20 World Cup opening stand of 133 by David Warner and Shane Watson helped Australia destroy India by nine wickets in their first Super Eights match on Friday.<\/p>\n<p><span><\/span><\/p>\n<p>Watson, who also took three for 34 with his seam bowling, won his third straight man of the match award in the tournament after lashing seven sixes and two fours in a 42-ball 72 as his side reached their target of 141 with 31 deliveries to spare.<\/p>\n<p><span><\/span><\/p>\n<p>Warner made an undefeated 63 in 41 balls after rain had interrupted play in the first over of the Australian innings.<\/p>\n<p><span><\/span><\/p>\n<p>&#8220;The last couple of games have been pretty good,&#8221; Watson said. &#8220;It&#8217;s nice when things come together like this.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p><span><\/span><\/p>\n<p>India captain Mahendra Singh Dhoni was unable to stem the flow of runs despite using eight bowlers including part-timers Yuvraj Singh, Virat Kohli and Rohit Sharma.<\/p>\n<p><span><\/span><\/p>\n<p>Earlier, Dhoni won the toss and chose to bat first but his team were restricted to 140 for seven. Opener Irfan Pathan top-scored with 31.<br \/>\n\u00a0 <span class=\"label\"><strong>Continued&#8230;<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>* Warner and Watson in 133-run partnership * Australia beat India by nine wickets (Adds quotes, byline) By Ranga Sirilal COLOMBO, Sept 28 (Reuters) &#8211; A record Twenty20 World Cup opening stand of 133 by David Warner and Shane Watson helped Australia destroy India by nine wickets in their first Super Eights match on Friday. [&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-15064","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\/15064","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=15064"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/press\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15064\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/press\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=15064"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/press\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=15064"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/press\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=15064"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}