*Official* Sri Lanka Tour of South Africa 2019

[MrPrez]

Could it have been light issues?

It was.

 

[trundler]

Perera hitting Vern out of the attack.

 

[trundler]

Mendis looking solid.

 

[trundler]

Vern is an expert at setting up the batsman. Steyn breathing fire from the other end. The boys are back in business.

 

[trundler]

11 overs in the first hour.

 

[Stefan9]

11 overs in the first hour.

Presume they will get leeway for ball ended up in the puddle. Still a terrible rate.

 

[OverratedSanity]

Rabada has looked a little meh. Don't think he looked quite at his best against Pakistan either. He probably doesn't need to play the next test if SA win here.

 

[StephenZA]

Rabada has looked a little meh. Don't think he looked quite at his best against Pakistan either. He probably doesn't need to play the next test if SA win here.

He has looked on/off. He seems to do better as the leader of the attack than as the 3rd seamer. He still took the 2nd highest number of wickets during Pak series though. Unfortunately he plays, unless injured, in tests.

 

[TheJammyTurtle]

Absolutely love watching Dhanjaya De Silva bat,just looks like he has so much time.Reckon his fathers passing probably set him back a bit,looks back at it now.

 

[Heboric]

NIce way to end the session.

Seems to be a trend, just before a break

 

[vcs]

Ambuldeniya is such a great name. Time to bump the "Cricketers with Badass Names" thread.

 

[MrPrez]

Ambuldeniya is such a great name. Time to bump the "Cricketers with Badass Names" thread.

It's actually Embuldeniya, I believe. There was something on Cricinfo's live commentary around it being a fault in their system and something that they're trying to fix.

 

[Heboric]

Pity Iceland dont play cricket. I would love to listen to the commentary between Iceland and Sri Lanka. Or maybe soccer rather, does Sri Lanka play soccer ?

 

[trundler]

One of the gutsiest fifties I've seen. Well played. Steyn has still got it, evidently.

 

[Dendarii]

Pity Iceland dont play cricket. I would love to listen to the commentary between Iceland and Sri Lanka. Or maybe soccer rather, does Sri Lanka play soccer ?

This may be apocryphal, but apparently there was once a rugby sevens match between Sri Lanka and Samoa in which the commentator gave up trying to refer to the players by name and starting using their numbers.

 

[trundler]

Steyn fifer please. He has bowled cleverly and with great venom. Great display of pace bowling. Glad to see Oliver's hacky bouncers didn't work as well today. Think Pakistan's utterly inept batsman threw away their wickets to him. Of course he bowled well but I'd like to see how goes pitching it up. The shorter stuff works against feeble batting lineups like Pakistan, sure.

 

[vcs]

Nice to see Steyn among the wickets, hoping he gets his 5-er.

 

[Borges]

This is turning out to be a pesky little partnership.

 

[trundler]

Excellent run out.

 

[trundler]

Boo. No Steyn fifer. Valiant knock from Embuldeniya. Could be huge. Only 2 short of his highest FC score.