Sri Lanka [287 & 190] beat South Africa [126 & 73] by 278 runs in the 1st Test

[OneTip-OneHand]

It has been pattern for quite some time now. Majority of tests in subcontinent getting over within 3 days of play.

 

[FreePalestine]

not on sky. Can I find this anywhere online?

 

[Bhaag Viru Bhaag]

not on sky. Can I find this anywhere online?

Sony Ten 1

 

[Bhaag Viru Bhaag]

Knew that Sri Lanka will win. This South African team is trash.

 

[Bhaag Viru Bhaag]

58/8

 

[Nikhil_cric]

Tenfer for Perera. Bowled very well in this match.

 

[Ab Fan]

Very poor from SA. Even with ABD, they would have lost but this is humiliating effort.

Gone are the days when they were highly competitive in Asia.

 

[Oligochaetes]

I think Pakistan has a very good chance to bash this team in South Africa. Pathetic team

 

[Nikhil_cric]

Lol and a certain Saffer poster keeps undermining AB . Fact is if it weren't for AB and his knock in the first test, India would have won that series. If Pakistan s fast bowlers take Elgar and markram out early , they will fold every single time

 

[AFM]

I think Pakistan has a very good chance to bash this team in South Africa. Pathetic team

We're playing them in SA, not Asia

 

[AFM]

Lol and a certain Saffer poster keeps undermining AB . Fact is if it weren't for AB and his knock in the first test, India would have won that series. If Pakistan s fast bowlers take Elgar and markram out early , they will fold every single time

Them folding is not what we are worried about

 

[Nikhil_cric]

Them folding is not what we are worried about

Well I never said it would be easy. But this is your best chance to win in SA. Their batting is not miles ahead of yours now . And it certainly won't be a 3-0 thrashing with an innings defeat like it was last time . Also unlike India I expect Pakistan to play a couple of warmups and be much better prepared. Mickey is a Saffer and should give valuable inputs to the batters.

 

[hadi123]

THE Standard Bank Proteas top order batting crumbled badly for the second time in the match to send them plummeting to a 278-run defeat in the opening Test match against Sri Lanka at Galle on Saturday. It is South Africa’s second biggest defeat to this opposition.

The bowlers had done as good a job as could be expected of them, taking the remaining six Sri Lankan second innings wickets in the morning session, which left the Proteas with a victory target of 352 runs.

In the process there were landmarks for Kagiso Rabada whose seven wickets in the match took his career total to 150 in his 31st Test match, making him the third fastest South African to this mark. Hugh Tayfield and Dale Steyn both took two matches fewer. Steyn himself captured the last wicket of the innings to take his career total to 421, level with Shaun Pollock as South Africa’s leading wicket taker of all time.

But any hope the Proteas had of making a fist of it disappeared as they lost their first five wickets inside 20 overs to almost matched the 21 overs that it took to happen in the first innings. The big worry for the Proteas is the fact that this was not a repeat of the raging turners they encountered in India in 2015.

This was a traditional sub-continent surface on which batsmen could make runs, particularly in the first half of the match. As it was, the game was almost completed inside two-and-a-half days.

The Proteas top four batsmen had a combined runs aggregate of 65 runs for the two innings and that made the debate of whether to play a seventh specialist batsman irrelevant.

SuperSport Commentator and Proteas captain on their first tour to Sri Lanka, Kepler Wessels, summed it up: “To make runs under these conditions you have to bat time”. That is the first lesson that will have to be learned as the Proteas endeavour to square the series in the second Test next week.

Dilruwan Perera led the second innings destruction with figures of 6/32 to give him 10 in the match.

The Proteas total of 73 was their lowest in a Test match since unity.

 

[Bhaag Viru Bhaag]

What's with 'The Standard Bank Proteas' in articles related to them? Thank god their sponsors are not Cycle Agarbatti otherwise we would see 'Cycle Agarbatti Proteas' in every article.

 

[Ab Fan]

Lol and a certain Saffer poster keeps undermining AB . Fact is if it weren't for AB and his knock in the first test, India would have won that series. If Pakistan s fast bowlers take Elgar and markram out early , they will fold every single time

AB probably came out of retirement for not letting India win their first series in SA and also forcing Smith and Warner for a 1-year ban because of the ball-tampering they did in the third test after the brilliant inning he played in 2nd test in PE.

 

[Nikhil_cric]

AB probably came out of retirement for not letting India win their first series in SA and also forcing Smith and Warner for a 1-year ban because of the ball-tampering they did in the third test after the brilliant inning he played in 2nd test in PE.

) AB and Steyn coming back for the 1st test did hurt whatever chances India had to win that match.

 

[hadi123]

<blockquote class="twitter-tweet" data-lang="en"><p lang="en" dir="ltr">South Africa 73 all out. Their lowest total in a Test match since 1957 <a href="https://twitter.com/hashtag/SLvSA?src=hash&ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">#SLvSA</a> <a href="https://twitter.com/hashtag/Cricket?src=hash&ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">#Cricket</a></p>— Saj Sadiq (@Saj_PakPassion) <a href="https://twitter.com/Saj_PakPassion/status/1018066990261522439?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">July 14, 2018</a></blockquote>
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[someone21]

This test is the best advert why test cricket needs to go. Very little competition, irrelevant match, predictable and a bore game.

 

[Markhor]

Utter shambles from South Africa.

 

[Rayyman]

Time to invite SA to UAE.

 

[Buffet]

Spineless cricket here.

 

[The_Odd_One]

That's why I don't take India's home record seriously. Any team with decent spinners can win home series in Asia.

 

[Hasan123]

Happy for Sri Lanka. They will remain competitive at home imo.

 

[Mainul]

I think Pakistan has a very good chance to bash this team in South Africa. Pathetic team

Sweet dream.SA is a different team at home.

 

[Mainul]

So Bangladesh can have a sigh of relief.SA scored only 30 runs more than Bangladesh's 43.

 

[Mainul]

Go back SA