{"id":6513,"date":"2011-12-30T01:04:24","date_gmt":"2011-12-29T23:04:24","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/12\/update-2-cricket-herath-earns-sri-lanka-shock-win-in-s-africa\/"},"modified":"2011-12-30T01:04:24","modified_gmt":"2011-12-29T23:04:24","slug":"update-2-cricket-herath-earns-sri-lanka-shock-win-in-s-africa","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/press\/update-2-cricket-herath-earns-sri-lanka-shock-win-in-s-africa\/","title":{"rendered":"UPDATE 2-Cricket-Herath earns Sri Lanka shock win in S.Africa"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>\t\t<span><\/span><\/p>\n<p>(Updates after win)<span><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span><\/span><\/p>\n<p>* Sri Lanka win a test for first time in South Africa<\/p>\n<p><span><\/span><\/p>\n<p>* Herath takes five wickets for 79<\/p>\n<p><span><\/span><\/p>\n<p>* Kallis completes first pair of test career<\/p>\n<p><span><\/span><\/p>\n<p>By Ken Borland<\/p>\n<p><span><\/span><\/p>\n<p>DURBAN, South Africa, Dec 29 (Reuters) &#8211; Diminutive<br \/>\nleft-arm spinner Rangana Herath took five wickets as Sri Lanka<br \/>\nrecorded their first test win in South Africa with a 208-run<br \/>\nvictory at Kingsmead on Thursday.<\/p>\n<p><span><\/span><\/p>\n<p>Sri Lanka bowled the home side out for 241 just before the<br \/>\nclose on the fourth day of the second test to level the series<br \/>\nat 1-1.<\/p>\n<p><span><\/span><\/p>\n<p>It was Sri Lanka&#8217;s first test victory in the country in nine<br \/>\nattempts and followed their innings defeat at Centurion in the<br \/>\nfirst match.<\/p>\n<p><span><\/span><\/p>\n<p>South Africa, chasing a record 450 for victory, collapsed<br \/>\ndismally after lunch, slumping to 133 for six before AB de<br \/>\nVilliers and Dale Steyn resisted for two-and-a-quarter hours.<br \/>\n\u00a0 <span class=\"label\"><strong>Continued&#8230;<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>(Updates after win) * Sri Lanka win a test for first time in South Africa * Herath takes five wickets for 79 * Kallis completes first pair of test career By Ken Borland DURBAN, South Africa, Dec 29 (Reuters) &#8211; Diminutive left-arm spinner Rangana Herath took five wickets as Sri Lanka recorded their first 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-6513","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\/6513","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=6513"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/press\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6513\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/press\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6513"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/press\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6513"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/press\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6513"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}