{"id":15145,"date":"2012-10-02T05:25:09","date_gmt":"2012-10-02T03:25:09","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/10\/cricket-time-for-south-africa-to-deliver-coach-kirsten\/"},"modified":"2012-10-02T05:25:09","modified_gmt":"2012-10-02T03:25:09","slug":"cricket-time-for-south-africa-to-deliver-coach-kirsten","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/press\/cricket-time-for-south-africa-to-deliver-coach-kirsten\/","title":{"rendered":"Cricket-Time for South Africa to deliver, coach Kirsten"},"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<\/span> Oct 1 (Reuters) &#8211; South Africa have a habit of failing to deliver in crunch matches at major tournaments but coach Gary Kirsten says they must produce the goods in Tuesday&#8217;s World Twenty20 clash with India.<\/p>\n<p><span><\/span><\/p>\n<p>The South Africans have lost their previous two Super Eight games and can only qualify for the semi-finals by beating India by a resounding margin while Group Two rivals Australia defeat Pakistan.<\/p>\n<p><span><\/span><\/p>\n<p>&#8220;We know what we need to do, we&#8217;ve got to execute. We also know exactly how you must play in these conditions,&#8221; Kirsten told reporters on Monday.<\/p>\n<p><span><\/span><\/p>\n<p>&#8220;The guys don&#8217;t do it all the time &#8230; in fact they have seldom done it here.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p><span><\/span><\/p>\n<p>South Africa won their round-robin matches in Sri Lanka but then lost to Pakistan and Australia in the Super Eights.<\/p>\n<p><span><\/span><\/p>\n<p>India have won once and lost once in Group Two and captain Mahendra Singh Dhoni knows they face a tough match against South Africa.<\/p>\n<p><span><\/span><\/p>\n<p>&#8220;They are a very good side,&#8221; said Dhoni. &#8220;They have a very complete bowling lineup with fast bowlers, two spinners and they also have batsmen who can score runs at a good pace.<\/p>\n<p><span><\/span><\/p>\n<p>&#8220;But in this format we have to click as a team, with somebody scoring 40 or 50 with the bat and the rest producing cameos of 10, 15, 20.&#8221;        (Additional reporting by Shihar Aneez; editing by Tony Jimenez)<\/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 Oct 1 (Reuters) &#8211; South Africa have a habit of failing to deliver in crunch matches at major tournaments but coach Gary Kirsten says they must produce the goods in Tuesday&#8217;s World Twenty20 clash with India. The South Africans have lost their previous two Super Eight games and can only qualify [&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-15145","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\/15145","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=15145"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/press\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15145\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/press\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=15145"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/press\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=15145"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/press\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=15145"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}