{"id":6495,"date":"2011-12-29T01:02:40","date_gmt":"2011-12-28T23:02:40","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/12\/cricket-sri-lanka-stutter-on-rain-affected-third-day\/"},"modified":"2011-12-29T01:02:40","modified_gmt":"2011-12-28T23:02:40","slug":"cricket-sri-lanka-stutter-on-rain-affected-third-day","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/press\/cricket-sri-lanka-stutter-on-rain-affected-third-day\/","title":{"rendered":"Cricket-Sri Lanka stutter on rain-affected third day"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>\t\t<span><\/span><\/p>\n<p>&#8211;    By Ken Borland<span><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span class=\"articleLocation\">DURBAN, South Africa<\/span> Dec 28 (Reuters) &#8211; Sri Lanka extended<br \/>\ntheir lead to 235 runs over South Africa after reaching 65 for<br \/>\nthree in their second innings on a rain-affected third morning<br \/>\nof the second test on Wednesday.<\/p>\n<p><span><\/span><\/p>\n<p>The start of play was delayed for an hour while the outfield<br \/>\ndried after morning and overnight rain.<\/p>\n<p><span><\/span><\/p>\n<p>Kumar Sangakkara was not out at lunch on 28, while<br \/>\nfirst-innings centurion Thilan Samaraweera was on nine as two<br \/>\nwickets fell in the play that was possible.<\/p>\n<p><span><\/span><\/p>\n<p>The home side almost took immediate advantage of the<br \/>\novercast conditions when Sangakkara, on his overnight score of<br \/>\nthree, edged Morne Morkel to the slips in the first over of the<br \/>\nday.<\/p>\n<p><span><\/span><\/p>\n<p>The catch was heading straight to Graeme Smith at first<br \/>\nslip, but wicketkeeper Mark Boucher reacted late, flinging out<br \/>\nhis glove in front of the captain&#8217;s face, distracting him and<br \/>\ncausing him to drop the catch.<\/p>\n<p><span><\/span><\/p>\n<p>Morkel did, however, claim the wicket of Tharanga<br \/>\nParanavitana for nine in the seventh over of the day. The opener<br \/>\npushed firmly outside the off-stump at a delivery that bounced<br \/>\nmore than expected and moved away, Ashwell Prince taking a<br \/>\ndiving catch in the slips.<\/p>\n<p><span><\/span><\/p>\n<p>Leading run-scorer Mahela Jayawardene, who became the first<br \/>\nSri Lankan and ninth batsman overall to reach 10,000 test runs<br \/>\nin the first innings, had scored 14 when he shouldered arms to a<br \/>\ndelivery from fast bowler Marchant de Lange that nipped back in<br \/>\noff the pitch and caught him in front of the stumps.<\/p>\n<p><span><\/span><\/p>\n<p>Umpire Steve Davis gave Jayawardene out lbw, but the<br \/>\nbatsman, feeling that he had been struck high on the pad, asked<br \/>\nfor a review of the decision. Hawkeye showed the ball was<br \/>\nhitting the top of the stumps, so third umpire Rod Tucker upheld<br \/>\nDavis&#8217;s decision and Jayawardene was out.<\/p>\n<p><span><\/span><\/p>\n<p>South Africa lead the three-test series 1-0.<\/p>\n<p><span><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&#8211; By Ken Borland DURBAN, South Africa Dec 28 (Reuters) &#8211; Sri Lanka extended their lead to 235 runs over South Africa after reaching 65 for three in their second innings on a rain-affected third morning of the second test on Wednesday. The start of play was delayed for an hour while the outfield dried [&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-6495","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\/6495","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=6495"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/press\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6495\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/press\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6495"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/press\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6495"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/press\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6495"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}