{"id":77650,"date":"2014-12-26T10:30:55","date_gmt":"2014-12-26T08:30:55","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/germistoncitynews.co.za\/77650\/video-bavuma-makes-test-debut-port-elizabeth\/"},"modified":"2014-12-26T10:39:15","modified_gmt":"2014-12-26T08:39:15","slug":"video-bavuma-makes-test-debut-port-elizabeth","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/develop.citizen.co.za\/germiston-city-news\/sports-news\/2014\/12\/26\/video-bavuma-makes-test-debut-port-elizabeth\/","title":{"rendered":"VIDEO: Bavuma makes Test debut in Port Elizabeth"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The team environment has given the 24-year-old\u00a0a smooth introduction to international cricket, and possibly\u00a0the best platform to excel as a youngster.<\/p>\n<p>&#8221; The guys have been very welcoming and friendly,&#8221; he explained. &#8221;\u00a0They have assisted me where they have felt they can and have tried to make my stay amongst the group as welcoming and as comfortable as possible. I owe it to those guys for being there for me.&#8221;<\/p><div class=\"stream-item stream-item-in-post stream-item-inline-post aligncenter\"><\/div>\n<p>He got a taste of \u201cwhat\u2019s to come\u201d when he came on as a substitute fielder\u00a0during the first Test at SuperSport Park, and added good energy and intensity to the field along with his sharp catch at short-leg.<\/p>\n<p>\u201c I\u2019d be lying if I said that it didn\u2019t feel different,\u201d he said of the step up to international cricket. \u201c When you walk onto the field and you look around you there are more people than normal. The intensity of the play is higher so it does feel different.\u201d<\/p><div class=\"stream-item stream-item-in-post stream-item-inline-post aligncenter\"><\/div>\n<p><em><strong>Watch as Bavuma speaks about making his debut for South Africa<\/strong><\/em><\/p>\n<div class='tie-fluid-width-video-wrapper tie-ignore-fitvid' style='margin-bottom: 30px;'>\n\t\t\t<iframe style='width: 100%; min-height: 300px; aspect-ratio: 16\/9;' src='https:\/\/www.youtube-nocookie.com\/embed\/L3OrtvcgJuY' loading='lazy'><\/iframe>\n\t\t<\/div>\n<p><strong>South Africa&#8217;s starting XI<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Alviro Petersen,\u00a0Dean Elgar,\u00a0Faf du Plessis,\u00a0Hashim Amla(c),\u00a0AB de Villiers(w),\u00a0Stiaan van Zyl,\u00a0Temba Bavuma,\u00a0Vernon Philander,\u00a0Dale Steyn,\u00a0Morne Morkel,\u00a0Imran Tahir<\/p>\n<p><strong>West Indies Starting XI<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Kraigg Brathwaite, Devon Smith, Leon Johnson, Marlon Samuels, Shivnarine Chanderpaul, Denesh Ramdin(w\/c), Jason Holder, Jerome Taylor, Sulieman Benn, Shannon Gabriel, Keon Peters<\/p>\n<p>Sources<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/CricketSouthAfrica?fref=ts\" target=\"_blank\">Cricket South Africa Facebook page<\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.cricbuzz.com\/live-cricket-scores\/13612\/rsa-vs-wi-2nd-test-west-indies-in-south-africa-2014-15\" target=\"_blank\">Cricbuzz<\/a><\/p>\n<div class=\"stream-item stream-item-below-post-content\">\n<div class='tenancy_slot tenancy_slot_1 jannah_ad' style='display: none;' data-query-id='83da14e5b633757f28becc6e67d5eafc'><\/div>\n<\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Highveld Lions batsman Temba Bavuma will make a debut for the Proteas after spending time in the middle with the team as a fielder when teammate Quinton de Kock sustained an injury. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":42,"featured_media":77656,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"hasGravity":false,"cxt_article_byline":"Malcolm Maifala","cxt_disable_google_ads":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[1420,5589,6155,6157,2362,1119,6158],"class_list":["post-77650","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-sports-news","tag-cricket","tag-cricket-south-africa","tag-quinton-de-kock","tag-sa-versus-west-indies","tag-south-africa","tag-sport-2","tag-temba-bavuma"],"amp_enabled":true,"category_labels":{"Category":"Sport","SubCategory":"Local sport"},"tag_labels":["cricket","Cricket South Africa","quinton de kock","SA versus West Indies","South Africa","sport","Temba Bavuma"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/develop.citizen.co.za\/germiston-city-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/77650","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/develop.citizen.co.za\/germiston-city-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/develop.citizen.co.za\/germiston-city-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/develop.citizen.co.za\/germiston-city-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/42"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/develop.citizen.co.za\/germiston-city-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=77650"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/develop.citizen.co.za\/germiston-city-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/77650\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/develop.citizen.co.za\/germiston-city-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/77656"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/develop.citizen.co.za\/germiston-city-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=77650"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/develop.citizen.co.za\/germiston-city-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=77650"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/develop.citizen.co.za\/germiston-city-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=77650"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}