Has SA turned a corner? We will know it in Dambulla on Wednesday

In the midst of all that Tabraiz Shamsi told the press on Sunday – on bowling, the batters, the courts, that sort of necessary but commonplace thing – he delivered a nugget of understanding on this crazy and sometimes maddening affair we call cricket. "Sometimes it works, sometimes no"

"That's how it happens," he said.

It worked Sunday, when South Africa reduced Sri Lanka to 36/5. He did not work in the Test Series: Sri Lanka won both games against a South African team that deteriorated as regularly as tough but fair grounds.

So the confirmation will be requested in the second ODI Wednesday, which, like that of Sunday will be played in Dambulla, that the visitors have indeed turned the corner.

Pre-game omens look good for an answer in the statement

The field for the match will be the same as the one that was used on Sunday, and that was much more recognizable for the South Africans as dry, dusty and rotating terrains.

Sri Lanka's chances of leveling The five-match series suffered from a hand injury to fast bowler Lahiru Kumara, who was ruled out Wednesday.

Not that Kumara could make a significant difference: the Lankans lost the six completed ODIs that they played in Dambulla since August 2014.

Given the conditions in which the local team must Wishing to be able to call on a fast of the caliber of Kagiso Rabada, who shared eight wickets with Shamsi on Sunday.

At 23 Rabada's not only The test bowling player number 2 – James Anderson made it fall from the top of the top on July 22 – but the leader of the South African attack . Fortunately, he seems to have the maturity to keep everything at stake.

"I have not come to understand that I am the leader, I do not see it that way," Rabada told reporters in Dambulla . Tuesday.

"All I know is that I have a responsibility to the team as a first opener."

Rabada is entitled to his opinion, but the fact is that he is the best bowler of the team of South Africa.

He played almost six times more deliveries to international cricket than any other player in the group.

JP Duminy – an 11-year-old senior man who played 210 more games in South Africa – is 2,360 deliveries, or 393.3 overs, behind Rabada.

And if the pitch behaves like Wednesday sunday, wait for Rabada to widen the gap.

"The trials [pitches for the] were completely different;"

"It's completely different now that there's a good rebound."

At this level, the teams should not lack motivation but with a World Cup looming in England at the end of May next year, the two sides will be flooded with the things in this series.

So , something else that Shamsi said Sunday, about the training of the previous day, would have attracted the attention of his compatriots – an easy session because it was a game by day [on Sunday] but the practice lasted three or four hours, we do not leave ourselves alone. "

Looks like a South African. On Sundays, they play again like South Africans