{"id":6787,"date":"2012-01-06T20:23:06","date_gmt":"2012-01-06T18:23:06","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/01\/update-2-cricket-kallis-steers-south-africa-to-win-over-sri-lanka\/"},"modified":"2012-01-06T20:23:06","modified_gmt":"2012-01-06T18:23:06","slug":"update-2-cricket-kallis-steers-south-africa-to-win-over-sri-lanka","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/press\/update-2-cricket-kallis-steers-south-africa-to-win-over-sri-lanka\/","title":{"rendered":"UPDATE 2-Cricket-Kallis steers South Africa to win over Sri Lanka"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>\t\t<span><\/span><\/p>\n<p>* South Africa take series with third-test win<span><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span><\/span><\/p>\n<p>* Kallis takes 3-35 and equals catching record<\/p>\n<p> (Adds detail, byline)<\/p>\n<p><span><\/span><\/p>\n<p>By Ken Borland<\/p>\n<p><span><\/span><\/p>\n<p>CAPE TOWN, Jan 6 (Reuters) &#8211; A superb all-round performance<br \/>\nby Jacques Kallis carried South Africa to a series-clinching<br \/>\n10-wicket win over Sri Lanka on the fourth day of the third and<br \/>\nfinal test at Newlands on Friday.<\/p>\n<p><span><\/span><\/p>\n<p>Having scored 224 in the South African first innings, Kallis<br \/>\nclaimed three for 35 to end an obdurate Sri Lankan second<br \/>\ninnings on 342, leaving the hosts with a nominal target<br \/>\nof two runs to win.<\/p>\n<p><span><\/span><\/p>\n<p>Kallis also took four catches to equal the South African<br \/>\nrecord for the most by an outfielder in an innings as well as<br \/>\nthe mark of six catches in a test set by Albert Vogler in<br \/>\n1909\/10 and matched by Bruce Mitchell in 1931\/32.<\/p>\n<p><span><\/span><\/p>\n<p>South Africa&#8217;s victory brings to an end a run of four<br \/>\nwinless series at home dating back to 2008.<\/p>\n<p><span><\/span><\/p>\n<p>They were held up on the fourth day by the determined Thilan<br \/>\nSamaraweera, who scored a defiant 115 not out in 325 minutes,<br \/>\noff 215 balls.<\/p>\n<p><span><\/span><\/p>\n<p>Angelo Mathews scored 63 and the tail-enders had some fun as<br \/>\nthey helped the experienced Samaraweera to prolong South<br \/>\nAfrica&#8217;s time in the field to nine minutes after the scheduled<br \/>\ntea break.<br \/>\n\u00a0 <span class=\"label\"><strong>Continued&#8230;<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>* South Africa take series with third-test win * Kallis takes 3-35 and equals catching record (Adds detail, byline) By Ken Borland CAPE TOWN, Jan 6 (Reuters) &#8211; A superb all-round performance by Jacques Kallis carried South Africa to a series-clinching 10-wicket win over Sri Lanka on the fourth day of the third and final [&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-6787","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\/6787","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=6787"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/press\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6787\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/press\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6787"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/press\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6787"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/press\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6787"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}