{"id":107661,"date":"2022-09-10T20:30:19","date_gmt":"2022-09-10T20:30:19","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/omni48.com\/news\/south-africa-s-khaya-zondo-finds-redemption-on-delayed-test-debut-barney-ronay"},"modified":"2022-09-10T20:30:19","modified_gmt":"2022-09-10T20:30:19","slug":"south-africa-s-khaya-zondo-finds-redemption-on-delayed-test-debut-barney-ronay","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/omni48.com\/news\/south-africa-s-khaya-zondo-finds-redemption-on-delayed-test-debut-barney-ronay","title":{"rendered":"South Africa&#8217;s Khaya Zondo finds redemption on delayed Test debut | Barney Ronay"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A grand old crumbling institution, racked with death, but held aloft by duty, service and succession. Yes, this certainly was a big day for Test cricket. And also for the royal family, as the Oval crowd offered its own soft, sombre hello-goodbye to the monarchical succession. It always felt like the right thing to do. People don&#8217;t want to be told to stay in their homes and mourn dutifully. Here the adverts were dimmed, the staging sparse &#8211; no greater love hath any governing body than removing its Cinch banners &#8211; and the anthems brilliantly sung by Laura Wright, most notably God Save the King, which is going to take a while. The best part was the silence. Related: Robinson skittles South Africa before Pope gives England narrow advantage After which this became a story of twin batting struggles, South Africa&#8217;s significantly more feeble. And, also, looking a little more closely, of two middle-order batsmen, one on each side. On<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Black middle order batter plays his first Test at 32 after a long journey involving lost years and public horrors<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":0,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1,101],"tags":[100,58,102],"class_list":["post-107661","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news","category-world","tag-royals","tag-sports","tag-world"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/omni48.com\/api\/wp\/v2\/posts\/107661","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/omni48.com\/api\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/omni48.com\/api\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/omni48.com\/api\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=107661"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/omni48.com\/api\/wp\/v2\/posts\/107661\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/omni48.com\/api\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=107661"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/omni48.com\/api\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=107661"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/omni48.com\/api\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=107661"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}