{"id":9346,"date":"2012-03-27T03:32:32","date_gmt":"2012-03-27T01:32:32","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/03\/update-1-cricket-new-zealand-slump-as-south-africa-smell-blood\/"},"modified":"2012-03-27T03:32:32","modified_gmt":"2012-03-27T01:32:32","slug":"update-1-cricket-new-zealand-slump-as-south-africa-smell-blood","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/press\/update-1-cricket-new-zealand-slump-as-south-africa-smell-blood\/","title":{"rendered":"UPDATE 1-Cricket-New Zealand slump as South Africa smell blood"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>\t\t<span><\/span><\/p>\n<p>* New Zealand batting to save test after Morkel double<br \/>\nstrike<span><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span><\/span><\/p>\n<p>* Taylor to have surgery on broken arm<\/p>\n<p> (repeats to fix formatting in headline)<\/p>\n<p><span><\/span><\/p>\n<p>By Greg Stutchbury<\/p>\n<p><span><\/span><\/p>\n<p>WELLINGTON, March 27 (Reuters) &#8211; New Zealand were in dire<br \/>\nstraits at lunch on the fifth day of the third and final test<br \/>\nagainst South Africa, reaching the break at 26 for two, still 66<br \/>\novers from the scheduled end of play.<\/p>\n<p><span><\/span><\/p>\n<p>The hosts had been set an improbable 389-run victory target<br \/>\nin 81 overs after Graeme Smith declared South Africa&#8217;s second<br \/>\ninnings on 189 for three just over an hour into the final day at<br \/>\nthe Basin Reserve.<\/p>\n<p><span><\/span><\/p>\n<p>Morne Morkel dismissed Daniel Flynn and Brendon McCullum for<br \/>\nducks inside the first five overs as the hosts slumped to two<br \/>\nwickets for one run.<\/p>\n<p><span><\/span><\/p>\n<p>They could have been worse off as Kane Williamson was given<br \/>\nthe benefit of the doubt when on seven, after Alviro Petersen<br \/>\nclaimed a low catch at point off Dale Steyn. Television replays<br \/>\nwere inconclusive as to whether the catch was taken cleanly.<\/p>\n<p><span><\/span><\/p>\n<p>Williamson (seven) and Martin Guptill (14) were together at<br \/>\nthe lunch break with the task of getting their side through to<br \/>\ntea without any further loss of wickets.<\/p>\n<p><span><\/span><\/p>\n<p>New Zealand&#8217;s chase had already been hampered with<br \/>\nconfirmation captain Ross Taylor would need surgery on his<br \/>\nbroken left forearm after he was struck by a Morkel bouncer on<br \/>\nMonday and would take no further part in the game.<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 batting to save test after Morkel double strike * Taylor to have surgery on broken arm (repeats to fix formatting in headline) By Greg Stutchbury WELLINGTON, March 27 (Reuters) &#8211; New Zealand were in dire straits at lunch on the fifth day of the third and final test against South Africa, reaching [&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-9346","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\/9346","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=9346"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/press\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9346\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/press\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=9346"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/press\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=9346"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/press\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=9346"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}