{"id":6464,"date":"2011-12-28T01:01:28","date_gmt":"2011-12-27T23:01:28","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/12\/update-2-cricket-sri-lanka-on-top-after-14-wickets-tumble\/"},"modified":"2011-12-28T01:01:28","modified_gmt":"2011-12-27T23:01:28","slug":"update-2-cricket-sri-lanka-on-top-after-14-wickets-tumble","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/press\/update-2-cricket-sri-lanka-on-top-after-14-wickets-tumble\/","title":{"rendered":"UPDATE 2-Cricket-Sri Lanka on top after 14 wickets tumble"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>\t\t<span><\/span><\/p>\n<p>* De Lange takes seven wickets on S.Africa debut<span><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span><\/span><\/p>\n<p>* Sri Lanka paceman Welegedara in career-best haul<\/p>\n<p> (Updates at close)<\/p>\n<p><span><\/span><\/p>\n<p>By Ken Borland<\/p>\n<p><span><\/span><\/p>\n<p>DURBAN, South Africa, Dec 27 (Reuters) &#8211; Sri Lanka,<br \/>\nlooking to square the three-match series 1-1, were in complete<br \/>\ncommand after 14 wickets tumbled on the second day of the second<br \/>\ntest against South Africa at Kingsmead on Tuesday.<\/p>\n<p><span><\/span><\/p>\n<p>The home team, replying to Sri Lanka&#8217;s 338, were skittled<br \/>\nfor 168 in 54.4 overs before the visitors reached seven for one<br \/>\nat the close of play.<\/p>\n<p><span><\/span><\/p>\n<p>Captain Tillakaratne Dilshan was the one Sri Lankan wicket<br \/>\nto fall in the second innings, caught in the slips off paceman<br \/>\nDale Steyn for four before the umpires called an early halt to<br \/>\nplay due to bad light.<\/p>\n<p><span><\/span><\/p>\n<p>Earlier, fast bowler Marchant de Lange grabbed seven for 81<br \/>\non his debut for the home side.<\/p>\n<p><span><\/span><\/p>\n<p>The 21-year-old&#8217;s figures are the best by a South African<br \/>\nagainst this opposition &#8211; surpassing Shaun Pollock&#8217;s six for 30<br \/>\nin Cape Town in 2000-01.<\/p>\n<p><span><\/span><\/p>\n<p>Sri Lanka were grateful to the 35-year-old Thilan<br \/>\nSamaraweera who scored 102 to steer his team to their highest<br \/>\ntotal in South Africa, beating the previous best of 323 at<br \/>\nCenturion in 2002-03.<br \/>\n\u00a0 <span class=\"label\"><strong>Continued&#8230;<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>* De Lange takes seven wickets on S.Africa debut * Sri Lanka paceman Welegedara in career-best haul (Updates at close) By Ken Borland DURBAN, South Africa, Dec 27 (Reuters) &#8211; Sri Lanka, looking to square the three-match series 1-1, were in complete command after 14 wickets tumbled on the second day of the second test [&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-6464","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\/6464","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=6464"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/press\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6464\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/press\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6464"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/press\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6464"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/press\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6464"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}