{"id":2561,"date":"2014-06-06T22:45:41","date_gmt":"2014-06-06T15:45:41","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/sport\/?p=2561"},"modified":"2014-06-06T22:45:41","modified_gmt":"2014-06-06T15:45:41","slug":"imran-tahir-wont-be-a-holding-roll-bowler","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/sport\/cricket\/imran-tahir-wont-be-a-holding-roll-bowler\/","title":{"rendered":"Imran Tahir won&#8217;t be a holding roll bowler"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Pick Imran Tahir as the first choice spinner of the South African test team, but please don\u2019t expect him to fulfil the holding role, said Paul Harris, a former left-arm spinner of South Africa.<\/p>\n<p>Another former SA spinner, Pat Symcox, said he expected the national selectors to pick the legspinner Tahir for the tests against Sri Lanka.<\/p>\n<p>He added that the new kid on the international block, the rookie offspinner Dane Piedt, will go on tour as a learning experience and will steal with his eyes.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIt would be a risk to select him as your specialist spinner in the first test. Ideally, you would use him as a second spinner or as a back-up. Even Shane Warne went for runs in his first test,\u201d said Symcox.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cPiedt might always be plagued by the factor that he could be in and out of the side for a period, especially because JP Duminy is in the side. Duminy, like Piedt, is an offspinner and JP is not bad.\u201d&#8230;<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.supersport.com\/cricket\/sa-team\/news\/140606\/Dont_expect_Tahir_to_fulfil_holding_role\" title=\"Read more\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Read more<\/a><\/p>\n<p>South Africa Today Sport &#8211; Cricket News &#8211; South Africa &#8211; <a href=\"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/sport\/category\/cricket\/\" title=\"Cricket\" target=\"_blank\">Cricket<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Pick Imran Tahir as the first choice spinner of the South African test team, but please don\u2019t expect him to fulfil the holding role, said Paul Harris, a former left-arm spinner of South Africa. Another former SA spinner, Pat Symcox, said he expected the national selectors to pick the legspinner Tahir for the tests against [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":58746,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"tdm_status":"","tdm_grid_status":"","fifu_image_url":"","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[189,599,590,592,589,602,594,597,30,600,596,593,601,319,114,120,595,591,80,188,112,598],"class_list":["post-2561","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-cricket","tag-cricket-news","tag-dane-piedt","tag-first-choice-spinner","tag-holding-role","tag-imran-tahir","tag-jp-duminy","tag-left-arm-spinner","tag-legspinner-tahir","tag-news","tag-offspinner-dane-piedt","tag-pat-symcox","tag-paul-harris","tag-shane-warne","tag-south-africa","tag-south-africa-today","tag-south-africa-today-sport","tag-south-african-cricket","tag-south-african-test-team","tag-sport","tag-sport-news","tag-sri-lanka","tag-tests-against-sri-lanka"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/sport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2561","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/sport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/sport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/sport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/sport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2561"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/sport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2561\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/sport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2561"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/sport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2561"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/sport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2561"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}