{"id":7134,"date":"2012-01-18T08:50:51","date_gmt":"2012-01-18T06:50:51","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/01\/cricket-south-africa-win-series-thanks-to-72-by-du-plessis\/"},"modified":"2012-01-18T08:50:51","modified_gmt":"2012-01-18T06:50:51","slug":"cricket-south-africa-win-series-thanks-to-72-by-du-plessis","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/press\/cricket-south-africa-win-series-thanks-to-72-by-du-plessis\/","title":{"rendered":"Cricket-South Africa win series thanks to 72 by Du Plessis"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>\t\t<span><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span class=\"articleLocation\">BLOEMFONTEIN, South Africa<\/span> Jan 17 (Reuters) &#8211; A<br \/>\nhalf-century from Faf du Plessis led South Africa to a<br \/>\nseries-clinching victory in the third one-dayer against Sri<br \/>\nLanka on Tuesday.<span><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span><\/span><\/p>\n<p>Chasing 267 to win, the home team were 179 for five after 34<br \/>\novers when rain ended play.<\/p>\n<p><span><\/span><\/p>\n<p>According to Duckworth-Lewis calculations South Africa were<br \/>\nfour runs ahead of Sri Lanka, giving them an unassailable 3-0<br \/>\nlead in the five-match series.<\/p>\n<p><span><\/span><\/p>\n<p>The 27-year-old Du Plessis lifted South Africa from 52 for<br \/>\nthree with 72 off 74 balls, the highest of his three<br \/>\nhalf-centuries, before he became the second batsman to be run<br \/>\nout in the innings as he failed to beat a throw by Angelo<br \/>\nMathews.<\/p>\n<p><span><\/span><\/p>\n<p>Captain AB de Villiers then took over with an aggressive 39<br \/>\nnot out off 36 deliveries.<\/p>\n<p><span><\/span><\/p>\n<p>Earlier, fast bowler Lasith Malinga put Sri Lanka on top by<br \/>\nclean bowling Graeme Smith for two and Colin Ingram for 13.<\/p>\n<p><span><\/span><\/p>\n<p>Sri Lanka totalled 266 for nine after winning the toss.<br \/>\nTheir top four all scored more than 30 but only opener Upul<br \/>\nTharanga (58) managed a half-century.<\/p>\n<p><span><\/span><\/p>\n<p>Nuwan Kulasekara provided some impetus in the closing overs<br \/>\nwith 40 off 38 balls.<\/p>\n<p><span><\/span><\/p>\n<p>The fourth match is in Kimberley on Friday.<\/p>\n<p><span><\/span><\/p>\n<p>(Writing by Ken Borland, editing by Tony Jimenez)<\/p>\n<p><span><\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"copyright\">\n<p>         \t\t\u00a9 Thomson Reuters 2012 All rights reserved<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>BLOEMFONTEIN, South Africa Jan 17 (Reuters) &#8211; A half-century from Faf du Plessis led South Africa to a series-clinching victory in the third one-dayer against Sri Lanka on Tuesday. Chasing 267 to win, the home team were 179 for five after 34 overs when rain ended play. According to Duckworth-Lewis calculations South Africa were four [&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-7134","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\/7134","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=7134"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/press\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7134\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/press\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=7134"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/press\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=7134"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/press\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=7134"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}