{"id":6468,"date":"2011-12-28T01:01:32","date_gmt":"2011-12-27T23:01:32","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/12\/update-1-cricket-amla-leads-south-africa-fightback\/"},"modified":"2011-12-28T01:01:32","modified_gmt":"2011-12-27T23:01:32","slug":"update-1-cricket-amla-leads-south-africa-fightback","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/press\/update-1-cricket-amla-leads-south-africa-fightback\/","title":{"rendered":"UPDATE 1-Cricket-Amla leads South Africa fightback"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>\t\t<span><\/span><\/p>\n<p>(Updates at tea)<span><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span><\/span><\/p>\n<p>* Home team reach 100-3 at tea<\/p>\n<p><span><\/span><\/p>\n<p>* Sri Lanka all out for 338<\/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; Hashim Amla&#8217;s<br \/>\ncounter-attacking half-century steered South Africa to 100 for<br \/>\nthree at tea on the second day of the second test against Sri<br \/>\nLanka at Kingsmead on Tuesday.<\/p>\n<p><span><\/span><\/p>\n<p>Replying to Sri Lanka&#8217;s first innings 338, the home team<br \/>\nslumped to 27 for three before Amla hit 52 not out as he and AB<br \/>\nde Villiers (23 not out) put on an unbroken 73 for the fourth<br \/>\nwicket.<\/p>\n<p><span><\/span><\/p>\n<p>Left-arm paceman Chanaka Welegedara picked up two wickets in<br \/>\nfour balls, removing Graeme Smith for 15 and Jacques Kallis for<br \/>\na duck.<\/p>\n<p><span><\/span><\/p>\n<p>Jacques Rudolph also fell for seven when he pulled a short,<br \/>\nleg-side delivery from Thisara Perera to fine-leg where<br \/>\nWelegedara lunged forward to take a good catch.<\/p>\n<p><span><\/span><\/p>\n<p>Earlier, fast bowler Marchant de Lange grabbed seven wickets<br \/>\non his debut while Thilan Samaraweera compiled his 13th test<br \/>\ncentury as Sri Lanka chalked up their biggest total in South<br \/>\nAfrica.<br \/>\n\u00a0 <span class=\"label\"><strong>Continued&#8230;<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>(Updates at tea) * Home team reach 100-3 at tea * Sri Lanka all out for 338 By Ken Borland DURBAN, South Africa, Dec 27 (Reuters) &#8211; Hashim Amla&#8217;s counter-attacking half-century steered South Africa to 100 for three at tea on the second day of the second test against Sri Lanka at Kingsmead on Tuesday. [&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-6468","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\/6468","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=6468"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/press\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6468\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/press\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6468"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/press\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6468"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/press\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6468"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}