{"id":24644,"date":"2025-01-04T14:27:03","date_gmt":"2025-01-04T14:27:03","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/kede.com.br\/sport\/south-africa-v-pakistan-ryan-rickelton-scores-259-in-second-test\/"},"modified":"2025-01-04T14:27:05","modified_gmt":"2025-01-04T14:27:05","slug":"south-africa-v-pakistan-ryan-rickelton-scores-259-in-second-test","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/kede.com.br\/sport\/south-africa-v-pakistan-ryan-rickelton-scores-259-in-second-test\/","title":{"rendered":"South Africa v Pakistan: Ryan Rickelton scores 259 in second Test"},"content":{"rendered":"<p> <br \/>\n<\/p>\n<div>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\"><b class=\"ssrcss-1xjjfut-BoldText e5tfeyi3\">Ryan Rickelton scored 259 as South Africa seized control on day two of the second Test against Pakistan at Newlands. <\/b><\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Rickelton, who started the day 176 not out with the hosts 316-4, posted another 83 runs before being caught off the bowling of Mir Hamza shortly before tea.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">It was the 28-year-old&#8217;s first time opening in Test cricket and his 259 moves him joint-seventh for the highest Test score by a South African alongside Graeme Smith against England in 2003.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Captain Temba Bavuma (106) and wicketkeeper Kyle Verreynne (100) also reached three figures, while all-rounder Marco Jansen passed 50 shortly before tea.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Spinner Salman Ali Agha took three wickets, while Hamza and Mohammad Abbas took two each. <\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">South Africa lead 1-0 in the two-match Test series.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><br \/>\n<br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/www.bbc.com\/sport\/cricket\/articles\/c0j133l8027o\">Source link <\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Ryan Rickelton scored 259 as South Africa seized control on day two of the second Test against Pakistan at Newlands. Rickelton, who started the day 176 not out with the hosts 316-4, posted another 83 runs before being caught off the bowling of Mir Hamza shortly before tea. It was the 28-year-old&#8217;s first time opening [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":24645,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[4],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/kede.com.br\/sport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24644"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/kede.com.br\/sport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/kede.com.br\/sport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kede.com.br\/sport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kede.com.br\/sport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=24644"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/kede.com.br\/sport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24644\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":24646,"href":"https:\/\/kede.com.br\/sport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24644\/revisions\/24646"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kede.com.br\/sport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/24645"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/kede.com.br\/sport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=24644"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kede.com.br\/sport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=24644"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kede.com.br\/sport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=24644"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}