{"id":9369,"date":"2012-03-27T15:35:35","date_gmt":"2012-03-27T13:35:35","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/03\/update-4-cricket-williamson-ton-saves-nz-despite-morkel-haul\/"},"modified":"2012-03-27T15:35:35","modified_gmt":"2012-03-27T13:35:35","slug":"update-4-cricket-williamson-ton-saves-nz-despite-morkel-haul","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/press\/update-4-cricket-williamson-ton-saves-nz-despite-morkel-haul\/","title":{"rendered":"UPDATE 4-Cricket-Williamson ton saves NZ despite Morkel haul"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>\t\t<span><\/span><\/p>\n<p>* Morkel takes six wickets<span><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span><\/span><\/p>\n<p>* Williamson century saves NZ from crushing loss<\/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 27 (Reuters) &#8211; Kane Williamson scored his<br \/>\nsecond test century and guided New Zealand to an unexpected draw<br \/>\nas the hosts made 200 for six at the end of the third and final<br \/>\ntest against South Africa at the Basin Reserve on Tuesday.<\/p>\n<p><span><\/span><\/p>\n<p>New Zealand had been chasing an improbable 389 for victory<br \/>\nand Williamson showed maturity beyond his 21 years after his<br \/>\nmore experienced colleagues were destroyed by Morne Morkel&#8217;s<br \/>\ncareer-best figures of 6-23 that had taken the visitors within<br \/>\nsight of a crushing win.<\/p>\n<p><span><\/span><\/p>\n<p>The Proteas still took the series 1-0 after winning the<br \/>\nsecond test at Seddon Park in Hamilton by nine wickets.<\/p>\n<p><span><\/span><\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Obviously we would have loved to have won the test and<br \/>\nlevelled the series but it was beyond us,&#8221; New Zealand&#8217;s<br \/>\nvice-captain Brendon McCullum told reporters.<\/p>\n<p><span><\/span><\/p>\n<p>&#8220;But to have seen some of the fight from our young guys<br \/>\ntoday and (they way they) stood up to one of the best attacks in<br \/>\nthe world in recent history and to have kept them at bay and got<br \/>\naway with a fighting draw is pretty satisfying.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p><span><\/span><\/p>\n<p>South Africa&#8217;s fielders did not help themselves, dropping<br \/>\nfour catches, while Williamson was also given the benefit of the<br \/>\ndoubt when on seven when television replays were not conclusive<br \/>\nthat Alviro Petersen had snared a low catch.<br \/>\n\u00a0 <span class=\"label\"><strong>Continued&#8230;<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>* Morkel takes six wickets * Williamson century saves NZ from crushing loss (Adds quotes) By Greg Stutchbury WELLINGTON, March 27 (Reuters) &#8211; Kane Williamson scored his second test century and guided New Zealand to an unexpected draw as the hosts made 200 for six at the end of the third and final test against [&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-9369","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\/9369","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=9369"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/press\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9369\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/press\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=9369"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/press\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=9369"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/press\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=9369"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}