{"id":6514,"date":"2011-12-30T01:04:25","date_gmt":"2011-12-29T23:04:25","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/12\/cricket-herath-spins-sri-lanka-to-shock-victory\/"},"modified":"2011-12-30T01:04:25","modified_gmt":"2011-12-29T23:04:25","slug":"cricket-herath-spins-sri-lanka-to-shock-victory","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/press\/cricket-herath-spins-sri-lanka-to-shock-victory\/","title":{"rendered":"Cricket-Herath spins Sri Lanka to shock victory"},"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 29 (Reuters) &#8211; Diminutive left-arm<br \/>\nspinner Rangana Herath took five wickets to lead Sri Lanka to<br \/>\ntheir first test win in South Africa on Thursday.<\/p>\n<p><span><\/span><\/p>\n<p>The touring side wrapped up victory by 208 runs just before<br \/>\nthe close on the fourth day of the second test, bowling out the<br \/>\nSouth Africans for 241 to level the series at 1-1.<\/p>\n<p><span><\/span><\/p>\n<p>It was Sri Lanka&#8217;s first test victory in South Africa in<br \/>\nnine attempts and followed their defeat by an innings in the<br \/>\nfirst match of the series at Centurion.<\/p>\n<p><span><\/span><\/p>\n<p>The hosts, 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.<\/p>\n<p><span><\/span><\/p>\n<p>Herath was the inspiration for Sri Lanka, taking five for 79<br \/>\nin 30.3 overs to give him nine wickets in the test and the man<br \/>\nof the match award.<\/p>\n<p><span><\/span><\/p>\n<p>Fast bowler Dilhara Fernando completed figures of two for<br \/>\n39.\t<\/p>\n<p> (Editing by Ed Osmond)<\/p>\n<p><span><\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"copyright\">\n<p>         \t\t\u00a9 Thomson Reuters 2011 All rights reserved<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>By Ken Borland DURBAN, South Africa Dec 29 (Reuters) &#8211; Diminutive left-arm spinner Rangana Herath took five wickets to lead Sri Lanka to their first test win in South Africa on Thursday. The touring side wrapped up victory by 208 runs just before the close on the fourth day of the second test, bowling out [&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-6514","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\/6514","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=6514"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/press\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6514\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/press\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6514"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/press\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6514"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/press\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6514"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}