{"id":6490,"date":"2011-12-29T01:02:36","date_gmt":"2011-12-28T23:02:36","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/12\/update-3-cricket-sangakkara-puts-sri-lanka-in-strong-position\/"},"modified":"2011-12-29T01:02:36","modified_gmt":"2011-12-28T23:02:36","slug":"update-3-cricket-sangakkara-puts-sri-lanka-in-strong-position","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/press\/update-3-cricket-sangakkara-puts-sri-lanka-in-strong-position\/","title":{"rendered":"UPDATE 3-Cricket-Sangakkara puts Sri Lanka in strong position"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>\t\t<span><\/span><\/p>\n<p>* Sri Lanka lead by 426<span><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span><\/span><\/p>\n<p>* Sangakkara hits 28th test century<\/p>\n<p> (Adds quotes)<\/p>\n<p><span><\/span><\/p>\n<p>By Ken Borland<\/p>\n<p><span><\/span><\/p>\n<p>DURBAN, South Africa, Dec 28 (Reuters) &#8211; Kumar Sangakkara<br \/>\ntook full advantage of being dropped in the first over of the<br \/>\nday to score his 28th test century as Sri Lanka took firm<br \/>\ncontrol of the second test against South Africa on Wednesday.<\/p>\n<p><span><\/span><\/p>\n<p>Sangakkara made a punchy, but elegant 108 for the tourists<br \/>\nwho reached 256 for seven in their second innings before bad<br \/>\nlight stopped play an hour after tea on the third day at<br \/>\nKingsmead.<\/p>\n<p><span><\/span><\/p>\n<p>Sri Lanka&#8217;s lead is a commanding 426 after South Africa<br \/>\nproduced a largely lacklustre showing with the ball in<br \/>\nconditions that suited the pace bowlers.<\/p>\n<p><span><\/span><\/p>\n<p>Sangakkara received able assistance from Thilan Samaraweera<br \/>\n(43) and impressive debutant Dinesh Chandimal (54) as Sri Lanka<br \/>\nbuilt on their 170-run first-innings lead in determined fashion.<\/p>\n<p><span><\/span><\/p>\n<p>The world&#8217;s number one ranked batsman played with great<br \/>\ncontrol, stroking 13 fours off 190 balls, having been dropped<br \/>\nbehind the wicket off Morne Morkel in the first over of the day<br \/>\nwhen on three.<\/p>\n<p><span><\/span><\/p>\n<p>&#8220;If luck works for you then you have to try and capitalise,&#8221;<br \/>\nSangakkara, who was searching for form after scores of 1, 2 and<br \/>\n0 in his last three innings, told reporters after his first test<br \/>\ncentury in South Africa.<br \/>\n\u00a0 <span class=\"label\"><strong>Continued&#8230;<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>* Sri Lanka lead by 426 * Sangakkara hits 28th test century (Adds quotes) By Ken Borland DURBAN, South Africa, Dec 28 (Reuters) &#8211; Kumar Sangakkara took full advantage of being dropped in the first over of the day to score his 28th test century as Sri Lanka took firm control 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-6490","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\/6490","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=6490"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/press\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6490\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/press\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6490"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/press\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6490"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/press\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6490"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}