{"id":9294,"date":"2012-03-25T15:28:37","date_gmt":"2012-03-25T13:28:37","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/03\/update-4-cricket-nz-handle-hostile-period-as-s-africa-post-huge-total\/"},"modified":"2012-03-25T15:28:37","modified_gmt":"2012-03-25T13:28:37","slug":"update-4-cricket-nz-handle-hostile-period-as-s-africa-post-huge-total","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/press\/update-4-cricket-nz-handle-hostile-period-as-s-africa-post-huge-total\/","title":{"rendered":"UPDATE 4-Cricket-NZ handle hostile period as S.Africa post huge total"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>\t\t<span><\/span><\/p>\n<p>* New Zealand battle through to stumps<span><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span><\/span><\/p>\n<p>* Gillespie takes 6-113<\/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 25 (Reuters) &#8211; Martin Guptill and Daniel<br \/>\nFlynn battled hostile pace bowling to guide New Zealand to 65<br \/>\nfor no loss at the close of play on the third day of the final<br \/>\ntest against South Africa at the Basin Reserve on Sunday.<\/p>\n<p><span><\/span><\/p>\n<p>The pair&#8217;s opening stand was the highest of the series<br \/>\nagainst South Africa and only the second time New Zealand&#8217;s<br \/>\nopeners have passed 50 in the southern hemisphere summer.<\/p>\n<p><span><\/span><\/p>\n<p>Guptill and Brendon McCullum posted 124 against Zimbabwe in<br \/>\nNapier in January.<\/p>\n<p><span><\/span><\/p>\n<p>Guptill was on 28, while Flynn, who was struck at least<br \/>\ntwice on the body as he tried to duck, weave and bob his way<br \/>\npast the short-pitched bowling, was on 35 after the first full<br \/>\nday&#8217;s play in the weather-hit third test.<\/p>\n<p><span><\/span><\/p>\n<p>The first two days of the match had been badly affected by<br \/>\nrain with more than seven hours play lost, while both days also<br \/>\nended early due to bad light.<\/p>\n<p><span><\/span><\/p>\n<p>South Africa captain Graeme Smith had declared the visitors&#8217;<br \/>\nfirst innings closed at 474 for nine shortly after tea, with<br \/>\nMark Gillespie taking six for 113.<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 battle through to stumps * Gillespie takes 6-113 (Adds quotes) By Greg Stutchbury WELLINGTON, March 25 (Reuters) &#8211; Martin Guptill and Daniel Flynn battled hostile pace bowling to guide New Zealand to 65 for no loss at the close of play on the third day of the final test against South Africa [&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-9294","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\/9294","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=9294"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/press\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9294\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/press\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=9294"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/press\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=9294"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/press\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=9294"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}