{"id":7526,"date":"2024-11-30T18:30:19","date_gmt":"2024-11-30T18:30:19","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/sport\/south-africa-vs-sri-lanka-marco-jansen-claims-11-86-as-hosts-win-durban-test\/"},"modified":"2024-11-30T18:30:19","modified_gmt":"2024-11-30T18:30:19","slug":"south-africa-vs-sri-lanka-marco-jansen-claims-11-86-as-hosts-win-durban-test","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/sport\/south-africa-vs-sri-lanka-marco-jansen-claims-11-86-as-hosts-win-durban-test\/","title":{"rendered":"South Africa vs Sri Lanka: Marco Jansen claims 11-86 as hosts win Durban Test"},"content":{"rendered":"<p> <br \/>\n<\/p>\n<div>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\"><b class=\"ssrcss-1xjjfut-BoldText e5tfeyi3\">Marco Jansen returned match figures of 11-86 as South Africa beat Sri Lanka by 233 runs in the opening Test in Durban.<\/b><\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">The left-arm seamer, who claimed 7-13 in the first innings as Sri Lanka were <a href=\"https:\/\/www.bbc.com\/sport\/cricket\/articles\/cvgx2w19z8xo\" class=\"ssrcss-k8mrr8-InlineLink e1kn3p7n0\">bowled out for 42<\/a> &#8211; their lowest total in Test cricket &#8211; picked up 4-73 in the second.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Resuming on 101-5 in pursuit of an unlikely 516, Sri Lanka were dismissed for 282 with more than four sessions to spare at Kingsmead.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">&#8220;I have always dreamed of taking five wickets, but I never thought I would take 10,&#8221; said Jansen, whose previous best match figures were 7-91.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">&#8220;It&#8217;s every bowler&#8217;s dream and that&#8217;s what we work for. It is going to be tough to beat.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Sri Lanka captain Dinesh Chandimal, 29 not out overnight, made 83, Dhananjaya de Silva 59 and Kusal Mendis 48, but the tourists lost their last four wickets for 11 runs.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">South Africa move second in the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.bbc.com\/sport\/cricket\/articles\/cvg4x4jgek0o\" class=\"ssrcss-k8mrr8-InlineLink e1kn3p7n0\">World Test Championship standings<\/a> and wins in their final three Tests would secure a place in June&#8217;s final. <\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">The second Test against Sri Lanka starts on 5 December in Gqeberha.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><br \/>\n<br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/www.bbc.com\/sport\/cricket\/articles\/ce9g938ge0yo\">Source link <\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Marco Jansen returned match figures of 11-86 as South Africa beat Sri Lanka by 233 runs in the opening Test in Durban. The left-arm seamer, who claimed 7-13 in the first innings as Sri Lanka were bowled out for 42 &#8211; their lowest total in Test cricket &#8211; picked up 4-73 in the second. Resuming [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":7527,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-7526","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-cricket"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/sport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7526","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/sport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/sport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/sport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/sport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=7526"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/sport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7526\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":7528,"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/sport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7526\/revisions\/7528"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/sport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/7527"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/sport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=7526"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/sport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=7526"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/sport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=7526"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}