{"id":42792,"date":"2018-01-08T20:29:44","date_gmt":"2018-01-08T15:29:44","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/tns.world\/?p=42792"},"modified":"2018-01-08T20:29:44","modified_gmt":"2018-01-08T15:29:44","slug":"south-africa-rout-india-in-first-test-thanks-to-vernons-venomous-seam-bowling","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/tns.world\/?p=42792","title":{"rendered":"South Africa rout India in first test, thanks to Vernon\u2019s venomous seam bowling"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>CAPE TOWN, Jan 08 (TNS):<\/strong> Venomous seamer Vernon Philander starred with the ball as South Africa beat India by 72-runs to take 1-0 lead in the three-match Test series at Cape Town on Sunday. Philander, who ended the match with nine wickets, registered his career-best Test bowling figures.<\/p>\n<p>Visitors, after being bowled on a meager total of 130 by India at lunch on Day four, displayed high-quality bowling display to leave India crumbling in seaming conditions.<\/p>\n<p>Shikhar Dhawan and Murali Vijay took India off to a decent start but were put on the back foot, courtesy some brilliant bowling display from the Protease.<\/p>\n<p>The hosts picked up wickets at regular intervals to leave the visitors in tatters. However, the visitors at seven down, looked threatening as Ravichandran Ashwin and Bhuvneshwar Kumar stitched together a 49-run partnership and brought India closer to the total before Philander struck once again and broke the partnership by dismissing Ashwin.<\/p>\n<p>Following which, Mohammad Shami and Jasprit Bumrah were dismissed in quick succession as Philander handed the Protease with a victory.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>CAPE TOWN, Jan 08 (TNS): Venomous seamer Vernon Philander starred with the ball as South Africa beat India by 72-runs to take 1-0 lead in the three-match Test series at Cape Town on Sunday. Philander, who ended the match with nine wickets, registered his career-best Test bowling figures. Visitors, after being bowled on a meager [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":42793,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[20],"tags":[330],"class_list":["post-42792","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-sports","tag-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/tns.world\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/42792","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/tns.world\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/tns.world\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tns.world\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tns.world\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=42792"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/tns.world\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/42792\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":42794,"href":"https:\/\/tns.world\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/42792\/revisions\/42794"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tns.world\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/42793"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/tns.world\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=42792"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tns.world\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=42792"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tns.world\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=42792"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}