{"id":6175,"date":"2011-12-16T00:22:11","date_gmt":"2011-12-15T22:22:11","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/12\/update-2-cricket-south-africa-in-charge-after-philander-rocks-sri-lanka\/"},"modified":"2011-12-16T00:22:11","modified_gmt":"2011-12-15T22:22:11","slug":"update-2-cricket-south-africa-in-charge-after-philander-rocks-sri-lanka","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/press\/update-2-cricket-south-africa-in-charge-after-philander-rocks-sri-lanka\/","title":{"rendered":"UPDATE 2-Cricket-South Africa in charge after Philander rocks Sri Lanka"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>\t\t<span><\/span><\/p>\n<p>* Philander claims third five-wicket haul in three tests<span><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span><\/span><\/p>\n<p>* South Africa dominate first day of opening test<\/p>\n<p><span><\/span><\/p>\n<p>By Ken Borland<\/p>\n<p><span><\/span><\/p>\n<p>CENTURION, South Africa, Dec 15 (Reuters) &#8211; Graeme Smith<br \/>\nscored a half-century but fell late on as South Africa made a<br \/>\nconfident reply after dismissing Sri Lanka for 180 on the<br \/>\nopening day of the first test on Thursday.<\/p>\n<p><span><\/span><\/p>\n<p>Seam bowler Vernon Philander claimed five wickets for the<br \/>\nhosts, who reached 90 for one at the close at Centurion.<\/p>\n<p><span><\/span><\/p>\n<p>South Africa captain Smith looked in fine form as he stroked<br \/>\nseven fours in his 61 &#8212; his 30th half-century in his 94th test<br \/>\n&#8212; but played around a full delivery from Dilhara Fernando to be<br \/>\ntrapped lbw. Opening partner Jacques Rudolph was unbeaten on 27.<\/p>\n<p><span><\/span><\/p>\n<p>Sri Lanka&#8217;s bowers were steady, but they struggled to obtain<br \/>\nthe same assistance the South Africans did, even though the home<br \/>\nattack sprayed the ball around disconcertingly at times.<\/p>\n<p><span><\/span><\/p>\n<p>South Africa&#8217;s much-vaunted attack were struggling in<br \/>\nhelpful conditions as Thilan Samaraweera and Angelo Mathews<br \/>\nadded 65 for the fifth wicket off just 80 balls.<\/p>\n<p><span><\/span><\/p>\n<p>The pair took Sri Lanka to 156 for four before Philander<br \/>\nstruck three times in four overs to complete his third<br \/>\nfive-wicket haul in three tests.<br \/>\n\u00a0 <span class=\"label\"><strong>Continued&#8230;<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>* Philander claims third five-wicket haul in three tests * South Africa dominate first day of opening test By Ken Borland CENTURION, South Africa, Dec 15 (Reuters) &#8211; Graeme Smith scored a half-century but fell late on as South Africa made a confident reply after dismissing Sri Lanka for 180 on the opening day of [&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-6175","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\/6175","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=6175"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/press\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6175\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/press\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6175"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/press\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6175"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/press\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6175"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}