{"id":9272,"date":"2012-03-24T15:26:35","date_gmt":"2012-03-24T13:26:35","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/03\/update-2-cricket-s-africa-in-command-of-third-test\/"},"modified":"2012-03-24T15:26:35","modified_gmt":"2012-03-24T13:26:35","slug":"update-2-cricket-s-africa-in-command-of-third-test","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/press\/update-2-cricket-s-africa-in-command-of-third-test\/","title":{"rendered":"UPDATE 2-Cricket-S.Africa in command of third test"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>\t\t<span><\/span><\/p>\n<p>* Petersen in sight of century<span><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span><\/span><\/p>\n<p>* South Africa make most of terrible day<\/p>\n<p> (Adds quotes)<\/p>\n<p><span><\/span><\/p>\n<p>By Greg Stutchbury<\/p>\n<p><span><\/span><\/p>\n<p>WELLINGTON, March 24 (Reuters) &#8211; Alviro Petersen and JP<br \/>\nDuminy batted South Africa into a commanding position with an<br \/>\nunbroken 140-run partnership at the close of play on the<br \/>\nweather-affected second day of the third and final test against<br \/>\nNew Zealand at the Basin Reserve.<\/p>\n<p><span><\/span><\/p>\n<p>Petersen was on 96 and Duminy 76 as the visitors steadily<br \/>\naccumulated runs after the start of play was delayed by constant<br \/>\ndrizzle for almost four and half hours, pushing South Africa to<br \/>\n246 for two when bad light stopped play.<\/p>\n<p><span><\/span><\/p>\n<p>The 31-year-old Petersen had been dropped by Martin Guptill<br \/>\non 68 after nicking a Doug Bracewell delivery, but was in sight<br \/>\nof his third test century when umpires offered the option of<br \/>\nleaving the ground at 1725 local (0425 GMT) with 12 overs<br \/>\nremaining in the day&#8217;s play.<\/p>\n<p><span><\/span><\/p>\n<p>Play had been halted on the first day at the same time due<br \/>\nto fading light. Umpires called a halt to play 10 minutes later.<\/p>\n<p><span><\/span><\/p>\n<p>Resuming on 136 for two, Petersen and Duminy were rarely<br \/>\ntroubled as New Zealand&#8217;s attack battled a howling, chilly<br \/>\nnortherly wind throughout the 37 overs they managed to bowl.<\/p>\n<p><span><\/span><\/p>\n<p>&#8220;It was an incredibly tough day in terms of the conditions,&#8221;<br \/>\nNew Zealand&#8217;s Daniel Vettori said. &#8220;Not easy for the bowlers.<br \/>\n\u00a0 <span class=\"label\"><strong>Continued&#8230;<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>* Petersen in sight of century * South Africa make most of terrible day (Adds quotes) By Greg Stutchbury WELLINGTON, March 24 (Reuters) &#8211; Alviro Petersen and JP Duminy batted South Africa into a commanding position with an unbroken 140-run partnership at the close of play on the weather-affected second day of the third and [&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-9272","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\/9272","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=9272"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/press\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9272\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/press\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=9272"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/press\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=9272"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/press\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=9272"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}