{"id":175999,"date":"2020-12-26T12:08:52","date_gmt":"2020-12-26T10:08:52","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/sa-news-sri-lanka-win-the-toss-bat-in-first-test-v-south-africa\/"},"modified":"2020-12-26T12:08:52","modified_gmt":"2020-12-26T10:08:52","slug":"sa-news-sri-lanka-win-the-toss-bat-in-first-test-v-south-africa","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/press\/sa-news-sri-lanka-win-the-toss-bat-in-first-test-v-south-africa\/","title":{"rendered":"SA News: Sri Lanka win the toss, bat in first test v South Africa"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" href=\"http:\/\/www.bing.com\/news\/apiclick.aspx?ref=FexRss&#038;aid=&#038;tid=BC3BB562A9774EB6A7302DE4171D54A1&#038;url=https%3a%2f%2fwww.reuters.com%2farticle%2fcricket-test-zaf-lka-idINKBN29006P&#038;c=7751606400920330140&#038;mkt=en-gb\">Sri Lanka win the toss, bat in first test v South Africa<\/a>: Sri Lanka captain Dimuth Karunaratne won the toss and elected to bat in the first test against South Africa at Centurion Park on Saturday.<br \/>\n<small><strong>Source:<\/strong> <a target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" href=\"http:\/\/www.bing.com\/news\/apiclick.aspx?ref=FexRss&#038;aid=&#038;tid=BC3BB562A9774EB6A7302DE4171D54A1&#038;url=https%3a%2f%2fwww.reuters.com%2farticle%2fcricket-test-zaf-lka-idINKBN29006P&#038;c=7751606400920330140&#038;mkt=en-gb\">&#8220;South Africa&#8221; &#8211; BingNews<\/a><\/small><br \/>\n<\/p>\n<p><a target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" href=\"http:\/\/www.bing.com\/news\/apiclick.aspx?ref=FexRss&#038;aid=&#038;tid=BC3BB562A9774EB6A7302DE4171D54A1&#038;url=https%3a%2f%2fnewsonjapan.com%2fhtml%2fnewsdesk%2farticle%2f129433.php&#038;c=14485018384240006501&#038;mkt=en-gb\">Japan to tighten restrictions on arrivals<\/a>: They say Japan will refuse new entrants from South Africa for the time being. They added Japanese and non-Japanese who have residential status in Japan will be asked to self-quarantine for 14 days &#8230;<br \/>\n<small><strong>Source:<\/strong> <a target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" href=\"http:\/\/www.bing.com\/news\/apiclick.aspx?ref=FexRss&#038;aid=&#038;tid=BC3BB562A9774EB6A7302DE4171D54A1&#038;url=https%3a%2f%2fnewsonjapan.com%2fhtml%2fnewsdesk%2farticle%2f129433.php&#038;c=14485018384240006501&#038;mkt=en-gb\">&#8220;South Africa&#8221; &#8211; BingNews<\/a><\/small><br \/>\n<\/p>\n<p><a target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" href=\"http:\/\/www.bing.com\/news\/apiclick.aspx?ref=FexRss&#038;aid=&#038;tid=BC3BB562A9774EB6A7302DE4171D54A1&#038;url=https%3a%2f%2fwww.khaleejtimes.com%2fsport%2fcricket%2fsri-lanka-bat-in-first-test-against-south-africa&#038;c=11230314957806212144&#038;mkt=en-gb\">Sri Lanka bat in first Test against South Africa<\/a>: Sri Lanka won the toss and decided to bat in the first Test against South Africa at SuperSport Park in Centurion on Saturday. \u201cWe\u2019ll back ourselves and back our batsmen,\u201d said Sri Lankan captain &#8230;<br \/>\n<small><strong>Source:<\/strong> <a target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" href=\"http:\/\/www.bing.com\/news\/apiclick.aspx?ref=FexRss&#038;aid=&#038;tid=BC3BB562A9774EB6A7302DE4171D54A1&#038;url=https%3a%2f%2fwww.khaleejtimes.com%2fsport%2fcricket%2fsri-lanka-bat-in-first-test-against-south-africa&#038;c=11230314957806212144&#038;mkt=en-gb\">&#8220;South Africa&#8221; &#8211; BingNews<\/a><\/small><br \/>\n<\/p>\n<p><a target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" href=\"http:\/\/www.bing.com\/news\/apiclick.aspx?ref=FexRss&#038;aid=&#038;tid=BC3BB562A9774EB6A7302DE4171D54A1&#038;url=https%3a%2f%2fwww.sify.com%2fsports%2fnz-vs-pak-shadab-khan-to-miss-2nd-test-sidelined-for-six-weeks-news-cricket-um0ffgchgghde.html&#038;c=4982957804487721853&#038;mkt=en-gb\">NZ vs Pak: Shadab Khan to miss 2nd Test, sidelined for six weeks<\/a>: Shadab Khan will miss the second Test against New Zealand in Christchurch and the home series against South Africa after being advised a six-week rest following MRI scans confirmed injury to the left &#8230;<br \/>\n<small><strong>Source:<\/strong> <a target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" href=\"http:\/\/www.bing.com\/news\/apiclick.aspx?ref=FexRss&#038;aid=&#038;tid=BC3BB562A9774EB6A7302DE4171D54A1&#038;url=https%3a%2f%2fwww.sify.com%2fsports%2fnz-vs-pak-shadab-khan-to-miss-2nd-test-sidelined-for-six-weeks-news-cricket-um0ffgchgghde.html&#038;c=4982957804487721853&#038;mkt=en-gb\">&#8220;South Africa&#8221; &#8211; BingNews<\/a><\/small><br \/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Sri Lanka win the toss, bat in first test v South Africa: Sri Lanka captain Dimuth Karunaratne won the toss and elected to bat in the first test against South Africa at Centurion Park on Saturday. Source: &#8220;South Africa&#8221; &#8211; BingNews Japan to tighten restrictions on arrivals: They say Japan will refuse new entrants from [&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":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[1],"tags":[428,3944,14968,830,3576,4084,23034],"class_list":{"0":"post-175999","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-south-africa","7":"tag-africa","8":"tag-first","9":"tag-lanka","10":"tag-news","11":"tag-south","12":"tag-test","13":"tag-toss","14":"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\/175999","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=175999"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/press\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/175999\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/press\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=175999"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/press\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=175999"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/press\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=175999"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}