{"id":235,"date":"2014-03-22T17:59:00","date_gmt":"2014-03-22T17:59:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/kashmir-today.net\/sri-lanka-beats-south-africa-in-world-t20\/"},"modified":"2014-03-22T17:59:00","modified_gmt":"2014-03-22T17:59:00","slug":"sri-lanka-beats-south-africa-in-world-t20","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/kashmir.watch\/?p=235","title":{"rendered":"Sri Lanka beats South Africa in World T20"},"content":{"rendered":"
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CHITTAGONG:<\/b> <\/span>Opener Kusal Perera smashed 61 to steer Sri Lanka to five-run win over South Africa in a tight contest in its World Twenty20 opener on Saturday.<\/span><\/div>\n
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Sri Lanka put up a respectable 165-7 and in response South Africa was restricted to 160-8.<\/span><\/div>\n
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Perera gave Sri Lanka a fluent start, hammering Dale Steyn 17 in the first over. Steyn however retaliated handing Tilkaratne Dilshan a first-ball duck at the same over.<\/span>
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During the course of his fifth half-century, Perera hit six four and three sixes in just 40 balls. After his dismissal, Mathews drove the innings to safety, before Steyn removed him in the last over.<\/span>
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Mathews hit three fours and a six in 32 balls.<\/span>
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In between, leg-spinner Imran Tahir ripped through the Sri Lankan middle order, claiming his career best 3-26.<\/span>
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Dale Steyn and Morne Morkel picked two wickets apiece.<\/span>
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JP Duminy hit 39 while Quinton de Kock made 25. Kock and Duminy added 50-run to keep South Africa in the contest but a late flurry of wicket led its sensational collapse. AB de Villiers contributed 24.<\/span>
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Sachitra Senanayake claimed 2-22 for Sri Lanka. Lasith Malinga, Nuwan Kulasekara, Angelo Mathews and Ajantha Mendis grabbed one wicket apiece.<\/span><\/span><\/div>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

CHITTAGONG: Opener Kusal Perera smashed 61 to steer Sri Lanka to five-run win over South Africa in a tight contest in its World Twenty20 opener on Saturday. Sri Lanka put up a respectable 165-7 and in response South Africa was restricted to 160-8.    Perera gave Sri Lanka a fluent start, hammering Dale Steyn 17 in the […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":938,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[22],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-235","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-union-territory"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/kashmir.watch\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/235","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/kashmir.watch\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/kashmir.watch\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kashmir.watch\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kashmir.watch\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=235"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/kashmir.watch\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/235\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kashmir.watch\/index.php?rest_route=\/"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/kashmir.watch\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=235"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kashmir.watch\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=235"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kashmir.watch\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=235"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}