{"id":9206,"date":"2012-03-23T03:24:33","date_gmt":"2012-03-23T01:24:33","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/03\/cricket-new-zealand-win-toss-choose-to-field-v-safrica\/"},"modified":"2012-03-23T03:24:33","modified_gmt":"2012-03-23T01:24:33","slug":"cricket-new-zealand-win-toss-choose-to-field-v-safrica","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/press\/cricket-new-zealand-win-toss-choose-to-field-v-safrica\/","title":{"rendered":"Cricket-New Zealand win toss choose to field v SAfrica"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>\t\t<span><\/span><\/p>\n<p>* New Zealand strengthen batting<span><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span><\/span><\/p>\n<p>* South Africa opt for four fast bowlers<\/p>\n<p> (Adds quotes)<\/p>\n<p><span><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span class=\"articleLocation\">WELLINGTON, March 23<\/span> (Reuters) &#8211; New Zealand captain Ross<br \/>\nTaylor won the toss and chose to field in the third test against<br \/>\nSouth Africa at the Basin Reserve in Wellington on Friday.<\/p>\n<p><span><\/span><\/p>\n<p>Overnight rain had delayed the start of play, with umpires<br \/>\nAleem Dar and Richard Kettleborough deeming the ground<br \/>\nunsuitable for play until 1400 (0100 GMT). The match had been<br \/>\nscheduled to start at 1030.<\/p>\n<p><span><\/span><\/p>\n<p>A minimum of 63 overs will be bowled.<\/p>\n<p><span><\/span><\/p>\n<p>&#8220;I think 60 overs in a day there is not a lot to achieve<br \/>\nwith the bat apart from denying the opposition so hopefully we<br \/>\ncan get out there and take some early wickets and put them under<br \/>\npressure,&#8221; Taylor said in a pitchside interview.<\/p>\n<p><span><\/span><\/p>\n<p>New Zealand have strengthened their batting line up by<br \/>\npicking six specialist batsmen. In their previous four tests<br \/>\nthey used four pace bowlers with left-arm spinner Daniel Vettori<br \/>\nbatting at number six.<\/p>\n<p><span><\/span><\/p>\n<p>Dean Brownlie, who broke a finger during the Zimbabwe<br \/>\nseries, returns to the side and will bat at six, while recalled<br \/>\nbatsman Daniel Flynn will open the batting with Martin Guptill<br \/>\nwith Brendon McCullum staying at number three.<\/p>\n<p><span><\/span><\/p>\n<p>&#8220;It&#8217;s been a while since Flynny was in the international<br \/>\nscene but he has been a good player for us when he has played<br \/>\nand he will bat at the top of the order,&#8221; Taylor said.<br \/>\n\u00a0 <span class=\"label\"><strong>Continued&#8230;<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>* New Zealand strengthen batting * South Africa opt for four fast bowlers (Adds quotes) WELLINGTON, March 23 (Reuters) &#8211; New Zealand captain Ross Taylor won the toss and chose to field in the third test against South Africa at the Basin Reserve in Wellington on Friday. Overnight rain had delayed the start of play, [&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-9206","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\/9206","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=9206"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/press\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9206\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/press\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=9206"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/press\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=9206"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/press\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=9206"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}