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Cape Town – A
man in the ranks of the opposition, only twice rejected in four innings, currently
sports more Test runs that a country has managed in full on three
the complete team strikes in the series almost over
sums up how sorry South Africa have been up here in the two-game series
against Sri Lankan enemies moving very rapidly to a 2-0 sweep
opener Dimuth Karunaratne at the strains on the second day of the second test in Colombo,
He was not 59 in the total of 151 of his two quarterfinals for three.
an already monstrous global lead of 365 with seven wickets in hand, a
situation largely caused by yet another proof of the thin wafer of the
Proteas in his first shot: 124 all in 34.5 overs.
tourists, remember, produced a "grand" total of 199 races in the first test
humiliation to Galle, so they lost 30 wickets in the series until now for
323 races – surely like wicked and bankruptcy as he has for them as a stick
unity since their return from isolation in 1992.
Karunaratne,
on the other hand, regaling royally on the ridiculously structured SA, heavy seamstress
attack, having now advanced to 330 executions alone and not yet done: his
the scores are now 158 not released and 60 (Galle) and 53 and 59 not released (Colombo).
It seems
only a matter of time before Proteas are put out of their misery in the
Series: The best total of the fourth round of the Sinhalese World Sports Championships
is 397, by New Zealand in 2009, and even that was not enough to stave off a
Lost 96 points; Faf du Plessis and company are almost certain to set a target
much bigger than that.
The Proteas
are really at six and seven at the fold under these conditions, almost
everyone in their specialist stick arsenal under different levels of hard
a thorough review of the delivery in recent times, and the situation has hardly
presence of so few competent or at least resilient players in their
fluffy tail.
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But the news of South Africa is naivety
correspondence.
I
recommended a major ridiculous stay on this topic after the first day
play, whereas Sri Lanka has been reduced to 277 for nine at the
close, which is based on recent healthy history by the sides beating first to the
the floor was a fairly decent figure on the side in the field.
But
On Saturday, things went pear shaped very quickly in every way, including the
embarrassment of another Sri Lankan concerted, very detrimental and demoralizing
tail-wag.
The last
The wicket added 61 points, before the spinner of the left arm, Keshav Maharaj, was finally added
a ninth stellar gate to its transport (9/129 of 41.1 overs).
left the burning question of "what if" the Proteas had had another
full rotation option to appeal.
craziness of their team's balance was then only emphasized when Sri Lanka did not even
use the rhythm services of their captain, Suranga Lakmal, in the short life
Battle of SA: their slow and well-supplied trio accomplished the destruction work in a consummate way
Maharaj: the fact that the Proteas occupied the fold for less than
three o'clock meant that the footsore warrior was quickly back in action everywhere
once again spearheading their asymmetrical bowling unit.
It is understandable that Sri Lanka has taken care to pursue it as quickly as
possible to rub the salt into the wounds of their opponents from a point of
view.
He was
traveling to more than five points by the end of Saturday, despite adding a
further two scalps to his name in the match, and almost pointless to say the
contribution of the seam to the cause on the slow and more and more rotating, dedusting
the track was negligible.
Maybe
the junk cherry on top, in the last day of the day Dean Elgar
turned an almost square to Angelo Mathews, really indicating only the measure
of the challenge facing the mentally fragile Proteas when they come to
beating again.
These are
horrible moments for them …
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