{"id":6444,"date":"2011-12-27T00:58:46","date_gmt":"2011-12-26T22:58:46","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/12\/update-3-cricket-samaraweera-revives-sri-lanka-jayawardene-joins-10000-club\/"},"modified":"2011-12-27T00:58:46","modified_gmt":"2011-12-26T22:58:46","slug":"update-3-cricket-samaraweera-revives-sri-lanka-jayawardene-joins-10000-club","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/press\/update-3-cricket-samaraweera-revives-sri-lanka-jayawardene-joins-10000-club\/","title":{"rendered":"UPDATE 3-Cricket-Samaraweera revives Sri Lanka, Jayawardene joins 10,000 club"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>\t\t<span><\/span><\/p>\n<p>(Updates with quotes)<span><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span><\/span><\/p>\n<p>* Samaraweera and Chandimal guide Sri Lanka out of danger<\/p>\n<p><span><\/span><\/p>\n<p>* Jayawardene first Sri Lanka to score 10,000 runs<\/p>\n<p><span><\/span><\/p>\n<p>* South African de Lange grabs four wickets on debut<\/p>\n<p><span><\/span><\/p>\n<p>By Ken Borland<\/p>\n<p><span><\/span><\/p>\n<p>DURBAN, South Africa, Dec 26 &#8211; Thilan Samaraweera and<br \/>\nDinesh Chandimal steered Sri Lanka out of trouble while Mahela<br \/>\nJayawardene joined the 10,000-run club on the first day of the<br \/>\nsecond test against South Africa on Monday.<\/p>\n<p><span><\/span><\/p>\n<p>Sri Lanka had elected to bat first under clear blue skies on<br \/>\na brown-coloured pitch and the move appeared to have backfired<br \/>\nas they stumbled to 162 for five.<\/p>\n<p><span><\/span><\/p>\n<p>But Samaraweera and debutant Chandimal constructed an<br \/>\nimpressive 111-run sixth-wicket partnership to lift Sri Lanka<br \/>\nout of danger and they ended the day on 289 for seven.<\/p>\n<p><span><\/span><\/p>\n<p>The 22-year-old Chandimal scored 58 off 86 balls, with seven<br \/>\nfours, before he reached out to try and cut a wide delivery from<br \/>\nMorne Morkel, but edged the ball to wicketkeeper Mark Boucher.<br \/>\n\u00a0 <span class=\"label\"><strong>Continued&#8230;<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>(Updates with quotes) * Samaraweera and Chandimal guide Sri Lanka out of danger * Jayawardene first Sri Lanka to score 10,000 runs * South African de Lange grabs four wickets on debut By Ken Borland DURBAN, South Africa, Dec 26 &#8211; Thilan Samaraweera and Dinesh Chandimal steered Sri Lanka out of trouble while Mahela Jayawardene [&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-6444","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\/6444","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=6444"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/press\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6444\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/press\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6444"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/press\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6444"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/press\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6444"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}