{"id":6437,"date":"2011-12-26T12:57:22","date_gmt":"2011-12-26T10:57:22","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/12\/cricket-sri-lanka-win-toss-bat-first-against-south-africa\/"},"modified":"2011-12-26T12:57:22","modified_gmt":"2011-12-26T10:57:22","slug":"cricket-sri-lanka-win-toss-bat-first-against-south-africa","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/press\/cricket-sri-lanka-win-toss-bat-first-against-south-africa\/","title":{"rendered":"Cricket-Sri Lanka win toss, bat first against South Africa"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>\t\t<span><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span class=\"articleLocation\">DURBAN, South Africa<\/span> Dec 26 (Reuters) &#8211; Sri Lanka won<br \/>\nthe toss and elected to bat first in the second test<br \/>\nagainst South Africa at Kingsmead on Monday.<span><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span><\/span><\/p>\n<p>South Africa made one injury-enforced change to the team<br \/>\nthat won the first test at Centurion by an innings and 81 runs,<br \/>\nwith Vernon Philander ruled out with a knee injury.<\/p>\n<p><span><\/span><\/p>\n<p>Marchant de Lange, the 21-year-old rookie fast bowler from<br \/>\nnorthern South Africa who has played just 14 first-class<br \/>\nmatches, will be playing his first test in place of Philander.<\/p>\n<p><span><\/span><\/p>\n<p>The Sri Lankans have made one change with uncapped<br \/>\nwicketkeeper Dinesh Chandimal replacing Kaushal Silva.<\/p>\n<p><span><\/span><\/p>\n<p>Teams:<\/p>\n<p><span><\/span><\/p>\n<p>South Africa &#8211; Graeme Smith, Jacques Rudolph, Hashim Amla,<br \/>\nJacques Kallis, AB de Villiers, Ashwell Prince, Mark Boucher,<br \/>\nDale Steyn, Morne Morkel, Imran Tahir, Marchant de Lange.<\/p>\n<p><span><\/span><\/p>\n<p>Sri Lanka &#8211; Tillekaratne Dilshan, Tharanga Paranavitana,<br \/>\nKumar Sangakkara, Mahela Jayawardene, Thilan Samaraweera, Angelo<br \/>\nMathews, Dinesh Chandimal, Thisara Perera, Rangana Herath,<br \/>\nChanaka Welegedara, Dilhara Fernando.<br \/>\n (Reporting by Ken Borland; Editing by Peter Rutherford)<\/p>\n<p><span><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>DURBAN, South Africa Dec 26 (Reuters) &#8211; Sri Lanka won the toss and elected to bat first in the second test against South Africa at Kingsmead on Monday. South Africa made one injury-enforced change to the team that won the first test at Centurion by an innings and 81 runs, with Vernon Philander ruled out [&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-6437","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\/6437","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=6437"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/press\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6437\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/press\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6437"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/press\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6437"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/press\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6437"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}