{"id":6471,"date":"2011-12-28T01:01:35","date_gmt":"2011-12-27T23:01:35","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/12\/cricket-de-lange-takes-seven-wickets-as-samaraweera-hits-ton\/"},"modified":"2011-12-28T01:01:35","modified_gmt":"2011-12-27T23:01:35","slug":"cricket-de-lange-takes-seven-wickets-as-samaraweera-hits-ton","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/press\/cricket-de-lange-takes-seven-wickets-as-samaraweera-hits-ton\/","title":{"rendered":"Cricket-De Lange takes seven wickets as Samaraweera hits ton"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>\t\t<span><\/span><\/p>\n<p>By Ken Borland<span><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span class=\"articleLocation\">DURBAN, South Africa<\/span> Dec 27 (Reuters) &#8211; Marchant de<br \/>\nLange grabbed seven wickets on his South Africa debut but Thilan<br \/>\nSamaraweera&#8217;s century helped Sri Lanka total 338 in their first<br \/>\ninnings on the second day of the second test on Tuesday.<\/p>\n<p><span><\/span><\/p>\n<p>Fast bowler De Lange took seven for 81 as Sri Lanka were<br \/>\nbowled out 35 minutes before lunch.<\/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>Samaraweera scored 102 to steer Sri Lanka to their highest<br \/>\ntotal in South Africa, beating the previous best of 323 at<br \/>\nCenturion in 2002-03.<\/p>\n<p><span><\/span><\/p>\n<p>The 35-year-old&#8217;s 13th test century was the second by a Sri<br \/>\nLankan in South Africa, after Hashan Tillekeratne&#8217;s 104 not out<br \/>\nin that Centurion test.<\/p>\n<p><span><\/span><\/p>\n<p>Captain Graeme Smith and Jacques Rudolph made a watchful<br \/>\nstart to the home team&#8217;s reply, reaching 15 without loss in six<br \/>\novers before lunch.<\/p>\n<p><span><\/span><\/p>\n<p>De Lange&#8217;s burst of three wickets in eight balls cut short<br \/>\nSri Lanka&#8217;s resistance on the second morning after they had<br \/>\nresumed on 289 for seven.<\/p>\n<p><span><\/span><\/p>\n<p>Samaraweera, who resumed on 86, continued to bat in a<br \/>\ncontrolled fashion as he and Rangana Herath put on 46 for the<br \/>\neighth wicket.<br \/>\n\u00a0 <span class=\"label\"><strong>Continued&#8230;<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>By Ken Borland DURBAN, South Africa Dec 27 (Reuters) &#8211; Marchant de Lange grabbed seven wickets on his South Africa debut but Thilan Samaraweera&#8217;s century helped Sri Lanka total 338 in their first innings on the second day of the second test on Tuesday. Fast bowler De Lange took seven for 81 as Sri Lanka [&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-6471","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\/6471","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=6471"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/press\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6471\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/press\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6471"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/press\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6471"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/press\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6471"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}