Sri Lanka [154 & 197/2] beat South Africa [222 & 128] by 8 wkt in 2nd Test, seal historic series win

[Ali_Pakistan]

Congratulations SL.
Thoroughly deserved!

 

[warcry]

sighs..
and this is what happens when you kick out non-performing seniors like chandimal from the team.

 

[RainMan_]

Well played SL. Congratulation.

SA cricket is going downhill.

 

[MP2011]

Would we learn something from SL? I mean we could have won at least 3-4 away tests last year had we knew how to chase....

Great achievement from SL.

 

[RobinJay]

Congratulations SL! Brilliant effort.

 

[Amjid Javed]

Superb stuff from SL 1st asian team to win a test series in SA. Fully deserved.

Puts into context pathetic effort at start of the year.

 

[AamchiMumbaikar]

Congrats .... when you win an epic match (like last one)

These things inspire a generation , SL might be on their way up again!

 

[jnaveen1980]

AMazing win by Srilanka. Congrats. No amount of praise can be attributed to their nerveless batting. SL has dominated SA in SA.

 

[jnaveen1980]

Would we learn something from SL? I mean we could have won at least 3-4 away tests last year had we knew how to chase....

Great achievement from SL.

yes. They chased with ridiculous ease.

 

[Markhor]

Astonishing achievement. Well done Sri Lanka !

 

[Saj]

Kusal Fernando and Oshada Fernando shared the first century partnership of the entire Castle Lager Test Series to enable Sri Lanka to inflict a chastening 8-wicket victory on the Standard Bank Proteas at St. George’s Park on Saturday.

In all their third-wicket partnership was worth 163 as Sri Lanka coasted to victory in the morning session on the third day as slightly less than 30 overs were required to score the remaining 137 runs needed for victory with 73 runs being scored in the first hour and the remaining 64 in a slightly extended second hour.

Mendis finished on 84 (110 balls, 13 fours) and Fernando’s contribution was 75 (106 balls, 10 fours and 2 sixes).


It was an historic day for Sri Lanka who clinched a 2-0 series win and thus joined Australia and England as the only other teams to win a Test match series in South Africa. They also join Australia as the only team in the modern era to go home unbeaten from a tour of South Africa.

The tour was a huge triumph for their stand-in captain Dimuth Kalunaratne who took over following successive defeats at home to England and then away to Australia and New Zealand. He has also had to pull the team together against the background of senior players lost through injury and loss of form and off-field distractions as well.

They also won this match with effectively only 10 players available following the unfortunate injury to Lasith Embuldeniya.

The Proteas were left with a lot to reflect on, not least of these being the fact that they were not even able to take the game to the halfway mark. It certainly is a major setback to their ambitions of catching India at the top of the ICC rankings log.

Few would have thought before the series began that Sri Lanka would produce not only the leading runs scorer in the series in Kusal Perera but even more significantly the two leading wicket takers in Vishwa Fernando and Kasun Rajitha, neither of whom had previously played under South African conditions.

Mendis was named Castle Lager Man of the Match and Perera Castle Lager Man of the Series.

The Sunfoil Education Trust (SET) benefited to the extent of R180 500 from the boundaries and sixes hit and wickets taken by both sides during the course of the match, taking the total for the series to R400 000.

This took the grand total for the combined Pakistan and Sri Lanka Test series past the one million mark to R1 084 500.

 

[captainbligh]

This makes up for the months of frustration lol.

I think more credit should go to Vishwa Fernando than people warrant for. He did something I have never seen a SL fast bowler do before and that is to not lose rhythm, speed or even the hunger for wickets as the day progressed and as he came to bowl in different spells.

Almost every time he was asked to bowl, he bowled around 140kph~ and delivered that breakthrough we were looking for. A left arm bowler with accuracy + speed is always lethal anyway. I would put his performance on par with Kusal Perera's.

Anyway pretty happy with our Test team at the moment. Thanks for all the support guys

 

[Adijazz1706]

Making it look easy, 8 wicket win )

Steyn going wicketless in the match, old dog can't learn new tricks I guess

 

[jnaveen1980]

Making it look easy, 8 wicket win )

Steyn going wicketless in the match, old dog can't learn new tricks I guess

This is Steyn's second worst Test series at home in terms of averages (32.66). First one was his debut test way back in 2004. That underlines how much SA depended on this guy to keep this home bullying alive against Asians.

 

[MMHS]

Wonderful SRL, probably the greatest upset in Test cricket by an Asian team and this was a complete domination. They lost the toss as well. I think touring NZ & AUS prior to this series also helped them adopting into SAF condition.

 

[jnaveen1980]

Wonderful SRL, probably the greatest upset in Test cricket by an Asian team and this was a complete domination. They lost the toss as well. I think touring NZ & AUS prior to this series also helped them adopting into SAF condition.

But you need to have mental strength to chase modest totals. They did well with that

 

[Someone]

Kusal Fernando and Oshada Fernando shared the first century partnership of the entire Castle Lager Test Series to enable Sri Lanka to inflict a chastening 8-wicket victory on the Standard Bank Proteas at St. George’s Park on Saturday.

In all their third-wicket partnership was worth 163 as Sri Lanka coasted to victory in the morning session on the third day as slightly less than 30 overs were required to score the remaining 137 runs needed for victory with 73 runs being scored in the first hour and the remaining 64 in a slightly extended second hour.

Mendis finished on 84 (110 balls, 13 fours) and Fernando’s contribution was 75 (106 balls, 10 fours and 2 sixes).


It was an historic day for Sri Lanka who clinched a 2-0 series win and thus joined Australia and England as the only other teams to win a Test match series in South Africa. They also join Australia as the only team in the modern era to go home unbeaten from a tour of South Africa.

The tour was a huge triumph for their stand-in captain Dimuth Kalunaratne who took over following successive defeats at home to England and then away to Australia and New Zealand. He has also had to pull the team together against the background of senior players lost through injury and loss of form and off-field distractions as well.

They also won this match with effectively only 10 players available following the unfortunate injury to Lasith Embuldeniya.

The Proteas were left with a lot to reflect on, not least of these being the fact that they were not even able to take the game to the halfway mark. It certainly is a major setback to their ambitions of catching India at the top of the ICC rankings log.

Few would have thought before the series began that Sri Lanka would produce not only the leading runs scorer in the series in Kusal Perera but even more significantly the two leading wicket takers in Vishwa Fernando and Kasun Rajitha, neither of whom had previously played under South African conditions.

Mendis was named Castle Lager Man of the Match and Perera Castle Lager Man of the Series.

The Sunfoil Education Trust (SET) benefited to the extent of R180 500 from the boundaries and sixes hit and wickets taken by both sides during the course of the match, taking the total for the series to R400 000.

This took the grand total for the combined Pakistan and Sri Lanka Test series past the one million mark to R1 084 500.

It's Kusal Mendis not Kusal fernando..please correct that..

 

[MMHS]

But you need to have mental strength to chase modest totals. They did well with that

Off course, I have seen teams bolting chasing such targets from better position. Also, they made it 2-0, means even in a 3 Test series they would have won it.

I do agree that this SAF is not what that name carries and half to the team is actually there for their past reputation, still beating them 2-0 by SRL at their home was unthinkable for everyone here. Historically SRL plays better against SAF, but here they were missing their main spinner as well and this was a proper convincing win - lost toss, then lost the main spinner; yet won commandingly inside half the duration of Test.

The team deserves every bit of praise and Hathura as well.

 

[Sirris]

I don't follow ither trams though i remember SL tram getting weaker and being ridiculed a lot on PP lately. Very amazing and surprising results.

 

[shariqnoor]

What a great achievement by Sri Lanka. Thoroughly deserved.

Can't help but to again highlight the fact that Pakistan has a terrible bowling attack and was a major culprit in the whitewash. Need to swiftly move past the likes of Amir, Hasan, Shadab in Tests. And Yasir away from home.

 

[jeetu]

Wonderful achievement by Sri Lanka. I rate this their greatest accomplishment since 1996 WC. Test cricket is now so balanced. No team can be taken for granted now.

 

[yasir]

This is SL greatest cricketing achievement, best SA in SA in test. Now Asian teams have one test series everywhere in the world. It took like 80-90 years

 

[leatherface58]

Year of the underdogs. What an exceptional performance!

 

[Savak]

This is a very proud moment, the Sri Lankans have thoroughly deserved this especially given how much troubles they have had to endure..

 

[Savak]

This makes up for the months of frustration lol.

I think more credit should go to Vishwa Fernando than people warrant for. He did something I have never seen a SL fast bowler do before and that is to not lose rhythm, speed or even the hunger for wickets as the day progressed and as he came to bowl in different spells.

Almost every time he was asked to bowl, he bowled around 140kph~ and delivered that breakthrough we were looking for. A left arm bowler with accuracy + speed is always lethal anyway. I would put his performance on par with Kusal Perera's.

Anyway pretty happy with our Test team at the moment. Thanks for all the support guys

This and this multiplied by 100. Sri Lankas bowling was superb and it played a vital role in them winning in South Africa.

Pakistanis do not realize how terrible their bowling unit especially the strengthless Amir was. The Pakistani batsmen got more of the blame but it was our bowling unit which did not capitalize on the wickets and let South Africa off the hook many times

 

[Savak]

Not to take anything away from Sri Lanka but it is clear the South Africans thought that winning the series was a formality especially given Sri Lankas struggles in the last few months.

 

[AamchiMumbaikar]

This makes up for the months of frustration lol.

I think more credit should go to Vishwa Fernando than people warrant for. He did something I have never seen a SL fast bowler do before and that is to not lose rhythm, speed or even the hunger for wickets as the day progressed and as he came to bowl in different spells.

Almost every time he was asked to bowl, he bowled around 140kph~ and delivered that breakthrough we were looking for. A left arm bowler with accuracy + speed is always lethal anyway. I would put his performance on par with Kusal Perera's.

Anyway pretty happy with our Test team at the moment. Thanks for all the support guys

Congrats mate, there were 2 more posters from SL who have not been posting off late in PP. Hope all of them are back now, this is massive

 

[Swashbuckler]

So happy for Sri Lanka, enjoy this precious win. One of the greatest achievements by any Asian side and without doubt the greatest upset in modern cricket history.

 

[CricFan2012]

Kusal Perera's name is down in history and is a legend in Sri Lanka now.

It will be extremely difficult for someone to score a knock like that and with a last wicket partnership that massive, even without riding on luck, in South Africa against a great attack.

It is the greatest innings of all time and contributed to an underdog test series wi

 

[Smbhayi]

Congrats mate, there were 2 more posters from SL who have not been posting off late in PP. Hope all of them are back now, this is massive

[MENTION=132270]SL_Fan[/MENTION] [MENTION=134867]Kiri[/MENTION]

BTW congrats Sri Lanka for a thumping series win...

 

[cricketworm]

This is just beyond incredible achievement. I would back this young side all the way to achieve greater things. Congratulations SL.

 

[mastermind_quad]

Wow this is an awesome win.
Congratulations Sri Lanka and Fans ... Just wow.

Gazab... Series win in SA...

 

[wrongun]

Congratulations to Lankan fans! Savour it.

Two tests to nil is no fluke and no easy feat.

I will say I NEVER saw it coming. After what I saw in Oz, I though SL cricket was at a really low ebb with players out, infighting, scandals in administration etc. I thought it would be years to climb out of all that.

The fans suffering through all that nonsense really deserved something special and wow they got it.

Is this a new golden generation or just a flash in the pan? How big is the feeling at home any Lankan posters here- likely to inspire a generation ala the WC win in '96?

 

[Amjid Javed]

The key thing to SL batting in 2nd inns was shot selection, discapline and how straight they played. Really does put our pathetic batting to shame.

 

[Savak]

Not to take anything away but the first test result was unexpected and a fluke to most neutral observers but Perrera took chances and it paid off. However the second the proteas were massacred and full credit to the Sri Lankans for pouncing on the opportunity with both hands.

 

[ILcricket]

SL were superb . Having said that , these 2 were best venues they could hope for & host's batted so badly , never seen such trashy batting from them , home or away EVER . Just few months back the rather arrogant Faf was boasting how strong they are & more so on home turf .
Amla , Elgar & Steyn got to go along with Otis G .

 

[Hasan123]

Great win for Sri Lanka. They have talanted players.

Also those predicting the end of South African cricket are clueless. They have talanted players still around and they will be back. No doubt.

 

[loves_cricket]

what a great achievement, Awesome unbelievable wonderful victory !!!!
I am SO SO happy.
heartily congratulations to SL team and fans.

 

[Joseph Gomes]

So Sri Lanka got whitewashed at home by England, now wins away series in South Africa? What the hell is happening

 

[gazza619]

I feel a lot of credit should go to their domestic cricket wickets which have pace and bounce.

 

[Joseph Gomes]

I feel a lot of credit should go to their domestic cricket wickets which have pace and bounce.

They got demolished in Australia though

 

[MenInG]

South Africa have slipped to third place in the MRF Tyres ICC Test Team Rankings after losing their series to Sri Lanka 2-0.
South Africa started the series with 110 points but have slipped to 105 after losing both Tests to their lower-ranked opposition. They are now two points behind New Zealand, who are in second place with 107 points.

Sri Lanka remain in sixth place but have gained four points to move up to 93 in the list led by India with 116 points.

New Zealand start a three-Test home series against Bangladesh on 28 February in Hamilton, which they will have to win in order to retain second place.

https://www.icc-cricket.com/media-releases/1061548

 

[captainbligh]

This and this multiplied by 100. Sri Lankas bowling was superb and it played a vital role in them winning in South Africa.

Pakistanis do not realize how terrible their bowling unit especially the strengthless Amir was. The Pakistani batsmen got more of the blame but it was our bowling unit which did not capitalize on the wickets and let South Africa off the hook many times

I think both of the games were won by our fast bowlers. Restricting South Africa for below 300 in 4 innings is no easy task. If they even scored 300+ in one inning, it would have been over for us.

Congrats mate, there were 2 more posters from SL who have not been posting off late in PP. Hope all of them are back now, this is massive

Thanks mate. Haven't posted here in a while but I have been lurking in PP from time to time haha.

Congratulations to Lankan fans! Savour it.

Two tests to nil is no fluke and no easy feat.

I will say I NEVER saw it coming. After what I saw in Oz, I though SL cricket was at a really low ebb with players out, infighting, scandals in administration etc. I thought it would be years to climb out of all that.

The fans suffering through all that nonsense really deserved something special and wow they got it.

Is this a new golden generation or just a flash in the pan? How big is the feeling at home any Lankan posters here- likely to inspire a generation ala the WC win in '96?

Definitely inspiring. After months of frustration, finally something to be happy about. Also this couldn't have happened at a more convenient time. Its funny how one mesmerizing performance can rekindle hope across a country.

 

[SL_Fan]

[MENTION=132270]SL_Fan[/MENTION] [MENTION=134867]Kiri[/MENTION]

BTW congrats Sri Lanka for a thumping series win...

Cheers fellas

Amazing win no doubt the guys truly deserve all the accolades. Played some brilliant cricket, fought hard and never gave in when the chips were down. So pretty much the opposite of how they’ve been playing last few years for the most part

Having said all that what’s more important is that they build on it and realise that they are capable of great things when they put their minds to it, work together and fight like hell. Because what they have been delivering as a unit last few years for the most part has been terrible and well below what they are capable of. So hope that they don’t let this one go to waste.