{"id":8127,"date":"2012-02-19T14:14:32","date_gmt":"2012-02-19T12:14:32","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/02\/update-1-cricket-levi-sets-records-as-south-africa-hammer-nz\/"},"modified":"2012-02-19T14:14:32","modified_gmt":"2012-02-19T12:14:32","slug":"update-1-cricket-levi-sets-records-as-south-africa-hammer-nz","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/press\/update-1-cricket-levi-sets-records-as-south-africa-hammer-nz\/","title":{"rendered":"UPDATE 1-Cricket-Levi sets records as South Africa hammer NZ"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>\t\t<span><\/span><\/p>\n<p>* Levi peppers small boundaries in Hamilton<span><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span><\/span><\/p>\n<p>* Brutal innings levels Twenty20 series<\/p>\n<p> (Adds details, quotes)<\/p>\n<p><span><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span class=\"articleLocatio\/spann\">Feb 19 (Reuters) &#8211; Opening batsman Richard Levi took<br \/>\nadvantage of the small boundaries at Seddon Park to blast a<br \/>\nworld record 13 sixes and guide South Africa to an eight wicket<br \/>\nwin over New Zealand to level their Twenty20 series in Hamilton<br \/>\non Sunday.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span><\/span><\/p>\n<p>Levi, who only made his debut on Friday in Wellington, also<br \/>\nbrought up the fastest international Twenty20 century off 45<br \/>\nballs as he scored 117 not out to help the visitors chase down<br \/>\nNew Zealand&#8217;s 173 for four with four overs to spare.<\/p>\n<p><span><\/span><\/p>\n<p>New Zealand had won the first match of the series in<br \/>\nWellington.<\/p>\n<p><span><\/span><\/p>\n<p>The powerfully-built Levi was brutal to a wayward New<br \/>\nZealand attack who bowled into his arc allowing him to smash the<br \/>\nball across the ropes from mid-off around to deep backward<br \/>\nsquare-leg.<\/p>\n<p><span><\/span><\/p>\n<p>&#8220;It was good fun. Every shot I played seemed to come off,&#8221;<br \/>\nLevi said in a televised interview. &#8220;The leg-side boundary on<br \/>\n(one) side of the wicket is fairly short so I was trying to<br \/>\ntarget it.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p><span><\/span><\/p>\n<p>Captain AB de Villiers (39 not out) simply ticked the strike<br \/>\nover to the 24-year-old who wasted little time in bringing up<br \/>\nhis century when he pushed the ball into the covers for a rare<br \/>\nsingle.<\/p>\n<p><span><\/span><\/p>\n<p>West Indies opener Chris Gayle had held the previous record<br \/>\nfor sixes in a Twenty20 international with 10, while Gayle and<br \/>\nBrendon McCullum had shared the record for fastest century. Both<br \/>\nhad achieved the mark in 50 balls.<br \/>\n\u00a0 <span class=\"label\"><strong>Continued&#8230;<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>* Levi peppers small boundaries in Hamilton * Brutal innings levels Twenty20 series (Adds details, quotes) Feb 19 (Reuters) &#8211; Opening batsman Richard Levi took advantage of the small boundaries at Seddon Park to blast a world record 13 sixes and guide South Africa to an eight wicket win over New Zealand to level their [&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-8127","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\/8127","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=8127"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/press\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8127\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/press\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=8127"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/press\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=8127"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/press\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=8127"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}