{"id":6236,"date":"2011-12-18T00:28:20","date_gmt":"2011-12-17T22:28:20","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/12\/update-2-cricket-philander-leads-south-africa-rout-of-sri-lanka\/"},"modified":"2011-12-18T00:28:20","modified_gmt":"2011-12-17T22:28:20","slug":"update-2-cricket-philander-leads-south-africa-rout-of-sri-lanka","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/press\/update-2-cricket-philander-leads-south-africa-rout-of-sri-lanka\/","title":{"rendered":"UPDATE 2-Cricket-Philander leads South Africa rout of Sri Lanka"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>\t\t<span><\/span><\/p>\n<p>* Sri Lanka lose by an innings and 81 runs<span><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span><\/span><\/p>\n<p>* South Africa&#8217;s Philander takes 5-49<\/p>\n<p><span><\/span><\/p>\n<p>* Finishes match with figures of 10-102<\/p>\n<p> (Adds detail)<\/p>\n<p><span><\/span><\/p>\n<p>By Ken Borland<\/p>\n<p><span><\/span><\/p>\n<p>CENTURION, South Africa, Dec 17 (Reuters) &#8211; Rookie<br \/>\nseam bowler Vernon Philander covered himself in glory once again<br \/>\nas he took five wickets, and 10 in the match, to lead South<br \/>\nAfrica to victory by an innings and 81 runs in the first test<br \/>\nagainst Sri Lanka at Centurion on Saturday.<\/p>\n<p><span><\/span><\/p>\n<p>Philander took five for 49, for match figures of 10-102, as<br \/>\nSri Lanka produced a shameful batting performance and folded to<br \/>\n150 all out in their second innings, eight minutes before tea on<br \/>\nthe third day.<\/p>\n<p><span><\/span><\/p>\n<p>It was the 26-year-old&#8217;s fourth five-wicket haul in his<br \/>\nfirst three tests.<\/p>\n<p><span><\/span><\/p>\n<p>Only Thilan Samaraweera, who top-scored with 32, and<br \/>\nlower-order batsmen Kaushal Silva (17), Thisara Perera (21) and<br \/>\nRangana Herath (23) showed any resistance as the home attack<br \/>\nsped through the Sri Lankan batting line-up.<\/p>\n<p><span><\/span><\/p>\n<p>Wicketkeeper Mark Boucher took six catches as the South<br \/>\nAfrican bowlers zipped the ball around the edges of the bat in<br \/>\nhelpful conditions.<br \/>\n\u00a0 <span class=\"label\"><strong>Continued&#8230;<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>* Sri Lanka lose by an innings and 81 runs * South Africa&#8217;s Philander takes 5-49 * Finishes match with figures of 10-102 (Adds detail) By Ken Borland CENTURION, South Africa, Dec 17 (Reuters) &#8211; Rookie seam bowler Vernon Philander covered himself in glory once again as he took five wickets, and 10 in the [&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-6236","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\/6236","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=6236"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/press\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6236\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/press\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6236"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/press\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6236"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/press\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6236"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}