{"id":15102,"date":"2012-09-30T17:13:30","date_gmt":"2012-09-30T15:13:30","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/09\/update-2-cricket-watsons-all-round-show-gives-australia-easy-win\/"},"modified":"2012-09-30T17:13:30","modified_gmt":"2012-09-30T15:13:30","slug":"update-2-cricket-watsons-all-round-show-gives-australia-easy-win","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/press\/update-2-cricket-watsons-all-round-show-gives-australia-easy-win\/","title":{"rendered":"UPDATE 2-Cricket-Watson&#8217;s all-round show gives Australia easy win"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>\t\t<span><\/span><\/p>\n<p>* Watson wins fourth consecutive man-of-the-match<span><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span><\/span><\/p>\n<p>* Left-arm spinner Doherty takes three for 20   (Adds quotes)<\/p>\n<p><span><\/span><\/p>\n<p>By Shihar Aneez<\/p>\n<p><span><\/span><\/p>\n<p>COLOMBO, Sept 30 (Reuters) &#8211; Shane Watson continued his impressive form with both bat and ball as Australia cruised to a comprehensive eight-wicket victory against South Africa in their Super Eight match in the World Twenty20 on Sunday.<\/p>\n<p><span><\/span><\/p>\n<p>Watson picked up two wickets for 29 with the ball and then cracked 70 off just 47 balls for his fourth consecutive man-of-the-match award in as many matches in the tournament.<\/p>\n<p><span><\/span><\/p>\n<p>Chasing 147 for victory, Australia lost opener David Warner early but W atson s nubbed South Africa&#8217;s hopes of victory with a 99-run stand for the second wicket with left-hander Mike Hussey (45 not out).<\/p>\n<p><span><\/span><\/p>\n<p>The all-rounder, who is now both the highest scorer and wicket-taker in the tournament, hit eight boundaries and two massive sixes du ring his knock before he was out caught by Wayne Parnell off left-arm spinner Robin Peterson.<\/p>\n<p><span><\/span><\/p>\n<p>&#8220;It&#8217;s nice to be able to continue to play well. I know how important my role is. There&#8217;s still a hell of a long way to go,&#8221; Watson said during the post-match presentation ceremony.<\/p>\n<p><span><\/span><\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Facing Dale Steyn and Morne Morkel was always going to be a big challenge. I knew we have to get through it without getting out, scoring as many runs as we can.<br \/>\n\u00a0 <span class=\"label\"><strong>Continued&#8230;<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>* Watson wins fourth consecutive man-of-the-match * Left-arm spinner Doherty takes three for 20 (Adds quotes) By Shihar Aneez COLOMBO, Sept 30 (Reuters) &#8211; Shane Watson continued his impressive form with both bat and ball as Australia cruised to a comprehensive eight-wicket victory against South Africa in their Super Eight match in the World Twenty20 [&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-15102","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\/15102","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=15102"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/press\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15102\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/press\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=15102"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/press\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=15102"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/press\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=15102"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}