{"id":9340,"date":"2012-03-26T15:31:52","date_gmt":"2012-03-26T13:31:52","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/03\/cricket-south-africas-philander-plays-down-milestone\/"},"modified":"2012-03-26T15:31:52","modified_gmt":"2012-03-26T13:31:52","slug":"cricket-south-africas-philander-plays-down-milestone","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/press\/cricket-south-africas-philander-plays-down-milestone\/","title":{"rendered":"Cricket-South Africa&#8217;s Philander plays down milestone"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>\t\t<span><\/span><\/p>\n<p>By Greg Stutchbury<span><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span class=\"articleLocation\">WELLINGTON, March 26<\/span> (Reuters) &#8211; Standing less than six feet<br \/>\ntall and with a short bustling run-up, Vernon Philander is not<br \/>\nthe prototypical fast bowler yet his accuracy, late movement<br \/>\naway and surprising pace has catapulted him into the record<br \/>\nbooks.<\/p>\n<p><span><\/span><\/p>\n<p>The 26-year-old, who only made his debut against Australia<br \/>\nlast November, became the joint second fastest bowler to 50 test<br \/>\nwickets on Monday when he bowled New Zealand&#8217;s Doug Bracewell<br \/>\nfor a duck.<\/p>\n<p><span><\/span><\/p>\n<p>Philander finished with six for 81, which helped the Proteas<br \/>\nbowl New Zealand out for 275, a deficit of 199 runs.<\/p>\n<p><span><\/span><\/p>\n<p>Philander&#8217;s sixth five-wicket haul in just his seventh test<br \/>\nmatched that of England&#8217;s Tom Richardson, who also achieved 50<br \/>\nwickets in the first innings of his seventh test, in 1896.<\/p>\n<p><span><\/span><\/p>\n<p>Australia&#8217;s Charlie Turner holds the record having achieved<br \/>\nhis 50th wicket in his sixth test in 1888.<\/p>\n<p><span><\/span><\/p>\n<p>Philander played down his efforts, preferring instead to<br \/>\npraise the entire bowling attack.<\/p>\n<p><span><\/span><\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Each wicket is important. It has come at a rapid pace, but<br \/>\nI&#8217;ll take it one pole at a time,&#8221; Philander told reporters.<\/p>\n<p><span><\/span><\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Bowling form is like batting form. If things go for you,<br \/>\nyou make sure you keep doing it (and) that&#8217;s what I&#8217;m doing.<br \/>\n\u00a0 <span class=\"label\"><strong>Continued&#8230;<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>By Greg Stutchbury WELLINGTON, March 26 (Reuters) &#8211; Standing less than six feet tall and with a short bustling run-up, Vernon Philander is not the prototypical fast bowler yet his accuracy, late movement away and surprising pace has catapulted him into the record books. The 26-year-old, who only made his debut against Australia last November, [&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-9340","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\/9340","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=9340"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/press\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9340\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/press\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=9340"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/press\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=9340"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/press\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=9340"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}