South Africa v Sri Lanka: Proteas inches close to victory – Match Update
http://www.senore.com/Cricket/South-Africa-c757 is inches close to a series victory against Sri Lanka. The hosts are just six wickets away from registering their first home series win in nearly four years and they have two days of play at their disposal to accomplish
just that.
The match being played at Newlands, Cape Town saw the Proteas turn the tables upon visiting the Lankan team, who annihilated the hosts in second game played at Durban by 208 runs.
At the stumps of day three, Sri Lanka in their second innings had piled 138 runs for the loss of four wickets and they still needed 203 runs to avoid an innings defeat. http://www.senore.com/Cricket/TT-Samaraweera-c2712 was at the crease batting on 19 while his
partner on the other end, Angelo Matthews had 28 runs to his name.
Sri Lanka resumed day two with an overnight score of 149 runs for the loss of two wickets. The tourists were foreseeing a solid reply to South Africa’s mammoth first innings total of 580 runs.
But their hopes were dashed early in the morning, when the veteran batsman http://www.senore.com/Cricket/KC-Sangakkara-c1779 found his way back to the dressing room after only facing three deliveries. The elegant left-hander failed to add any score to his overnight
tally of 35 runs, as http://www.senore.com/Cricket/DW-Steyn-c1409 celebrated his first wicket of the match.
The early demise of Sangakkara pretty much set the tone for the rest of the day, as one after the other, Lankan batters fell easy prey to the lethal bowling of Steyn and http://www.senore.com/Cricket/Vernon-Philander-c2753.
http://www.senore.com/Cricket/M-Morkel-c73528 silenced him to bring an end to Sri Lanka’s first innings at 239 runs.
http://www.senore.com/Cricket/GC-Smith-c1473, South African skipper, without wasting a second imposed the follow-on.
The story of the second innings was even worse as the Sri Lankan skipper, http://www.senore.com/Cricket/TM-Dilshan-c2691, failed to replicate his first innings performance and got out after scaling 5 runs.
http://www.senore.com/Cricket/Sri-Lanka-c758’s total to 79. Jacques Kallis’ all-round abilities came in handy yet again when the medium-pacer broke the partnership by picking up Thirimanne
scalp.
It is hard to keep Kallis out of action at Newlands, the 36-year-old was involved in another wicket, but this time around he was fielding at slips where he took Sangakkara’s catch off http://www.senore.com/Cricket/Imran-c64193 Tahir’s bowling.
Sri Lankan team were left stranded at 98 for the loss of four wickets, when http://www.senore.com/Cricket/DPMD-Jayawardene-c1397 (12) took the long walk to pavilion after edging a delivery of Morkel.
South Africans would be hopping to finish the match in a hurry on day four, as they are just two wickets away from exposing the tail of Lankan team.
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