{"id":772,"date":"2013-09-11T06:14:12","date_gmt":"2013-09-11T06:14:12","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/cricbol.com\/blog\/?p=772"},"modified":"2013-09-11T06:19:41","modified_gmt":"2013-09-11T06:19:41","slug":"giles-says-the-england-odi-team-is-balanced-zimbabwe-hit-237-8-on-1st-day-of-2nd-test-smith-back-for-pakistan-series-amla-and-de-villiers-dominate-csa-awards-gambhir-returns-to-essex","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/cricbol.com\/blog\/2013\/09\/11\/giles-says-the-england-odi-team-is-balanced-zimbabwe-hit-237-8-on-1st-day-of-2nd-test-smith-back-for-pakistan-series-amla-and-de-villiers-dominate-csa-awards-gambhir-returns-to-essex\/","title":{"rendered":"Giles says the England ODI team is balanced; Zimbabwe hit 237-8 on 1st day of 2nd test; Smith back for Pakistan series; Amla and de Villiers dominate CSA awards; Gambhir returns to Essex"},"content":{"rendered":"

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Cricket-England have the right balance, says coach Giles<\/a><\/strong><\/h2>\n

England one-day coach Ashley Giles made a statement that the English one day side has the right balance ahead of Wednesday’s third one-day international against Australia at Edgbaston. [\/dropshadowbox] \u00a0 [dropshadowbox effect=”horizontal-curve-bottom” rounded_corners=”false” width=”99%” height=”140px”]<\/p>\n

Zimbabwe reach 237-8 on first day of second test<\/a><\/strong><\/h2>\n

Hamilton Masakadza and Brendan Taylor led Zimbabwe’s batting on the first day of the second test against Pakistan to put together a 110-run partnership for their team. Zimbabwe reached 237 for eight wickets at stumps on the opening day of the second test\u00a0on Tuesday. [\/dropshadowbox] \u00a0 [dropshadowbox effect=”horizontal-curve-bottom” rounded_corners=”false” width=”99%” height=”140px”]<\/p>\n

Smith back for Pakistan series, fitness to be proved<\/a><\/strong><\/h2>\n

Graeme Smith is back in \u00a0South Africa’s touring party for the series against Pakistan in the United Arab Emirates (UAE) starting next month. He still confirm his full recovery from the injury he had suffered in his ankle due to which he was out since May. [\/dropshadowbox] \u00a0 [dropshadowbox effect=”horizontal-curve-bottom” rounded_corners=”false” width=”99%” height=”160px”]<\/p>\n

CSA awards dominated by Amla, de Villiers<\/a><\/strong><\/h2>\n

AB de Villiers, the ODI captain of\u00a0South Africa, was named Momentum ODI Cricketer of the Year and the South Africa Players’ Player of the Year. During the same event,\u00a0Hashim Amla became the third South African to be named as Cricket South Africa (CSA) Cricketer of the Year on two separate occasions. Amla had won the award earlier in 2010. [\/dropshadowbox] \u00a0 [dropshadowbox effect=”horizontal-curve-bottom” rounded_corners=”false” width=”99%” height=”150px”]<\/p>\n

Gambhir to return to Essex<\/a><\/strong><\/h2>\n

India batsman\u00a0Gautam Gambhir is set to\u00a0return to Essex to play the remainder of the county season for the team. He had returned to India on 2nd September due to family reasons. Gambhir will rejoin the squad on Tuesday in Canterbury, where Essex play a Championship game against Kent from Wednesday. [\/dropshadowbox]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

[dropshadowbox effect=”horizontal-curve-bottom” rounded_corners=”false” width=”99%” height=”120px”] Cricket-England have the right balance, says coach Giles England one-day coach Ashley Giles made a statement that the English one day side has the right balance ahead of Wednesday’s third one-day international against Australia at Edgbaston. [\/dropshadowbox] \u00a0 [dropshadowbox effect=”horizontal-curve-bottom” rounded_corners=”false” width=”99%” height=”140px”] Zimbabwe reach 237-8 on first day of […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[170],"tags":[191,190,194,193,192,185,187,189,188,186],"class_list":["post-772","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-cricket-news","tag-csa-awards","tag-de-villiers","tag-england","tag-essex-county","tag-gautam-gambhir","tag-giles","tag-graeme-smith","tag-hashim-amla","tag-pakistan-series","tag-zimbabwe-vs-pakistan"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/cricbol.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/772","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/cricbol.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/cricbol.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cricbol.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cricbol.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=772"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/cricbol.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/772\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":777,"href":"https:\/\/cricbol.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/772\/revisions\/777"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/cricbol.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=772"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cricbol.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=772"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cricbol.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=772"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}