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No, it was later than that. Herath got a bagful.
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*Official* Sri Lanka Tour of South Africa 2019
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morgieb
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Yeah went from 3/28 to 5/534 declared in the first innings. And Head and Khawaja put on 150 for the 4th wicket before declaring.
SeamUp
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I admire what Otis has done in having this pace arsenal and I think from this summer we know we still have decent pace stocks after Abbott, M.Morkel are no longer.
I also admire coming out saying we wanted to win this summer 5-0 because we needed that ruthless mindset again.
But the batting issues haven't been sorted enough in my opinion and this summer has been short-termism there in my view so it probably means Amla and Faf will both be around for India and England. You can't throw Hamza, de Bruyn, Mulder all in at once in India.
Also the fact that Keshav missed out on the Pakistan series and we have India coming up. Whilst I understand it - I didn't mind it maybe for 2 tests in Joburg & Pretoria but now Cape Town has been added to the all pace list.
It does make me wonder if his stint was always to the world cup only.
I also admire coming out saying we wanted to win this summer 5-0 because we needed that ruthless mindset again.
But the batting issues haven't been sorted enough in my opinion and this summer has been short-termism there in my view so it probably means Amla and Faf will both be around for India and England. You can't throw Hamza, de Bruyn, Mulder all in at once in India.
Also the fact that Keshav missed out on the Pakistan series and we have India coming up. Whilst I understand it - I didn't mind it maybe for 2 tests in Joburg & Pretoria but now Cape Town has been added to the all pace list.
It does make me wonder if his stint was always to the world cup only.
Sri Lanka have a great opportunity here with Philander as SA's no.7. It's not the strongest batting lineup. But the thing is, they've consistently got themselves into these good situations. They had NZ struggling in the first day of the second test, and as someone else has said, Australia were not a lot for 3 before they got to 500 and declared. Hope the same doesn't happen here for their sake. Regardless though, I fear what SA's bowling attack is going to do to them here. Even anything around 175 would probably be competitive
StephenZA
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I think that this is very much what it was; we shall see if Gibson stays on longer. Benkenstein as batting coach had as much to do with his also being a fielding coach.
We shall have to see if Gibson stays on. Would be a tough first tour as a new coach to go to India with little time after the WC. I also think Amla may retire after the WC based on his current performances.
Dendarii
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It might seem odd to speak of it as such, but Olivier's performance against Pakistan has actually caused a bit of a problem. I doubt anyone expected him to do anything close to what he did, and the thinking was probably that he'd come in for one match as cover for Philander and also play in Joburg instead of a spinner, but for the Sri Lanka matches they'd go back to three seamers.
However, it's now turned into a situation where it's a very tough decision to make as to which one of the four seamers to leave out due to Olivier's current form and the others' pedigree. So they went for the easy way out by going all pace at Cape Town and now dropping a batsman for this match. But as difficult a decision as it is, it's one that needs to be made as neither option of Philander at 7 or no spinner are sustainable in the long run.
SeamUp
International Coach
Extremely tough and with a changing side.
Ford (Ireland & previously SA and Sri Lanka twice), Pybus (Windies), Arthur (Pakistan), a South African considered for the New Zealand job before the other guy go it.
* Also Shane Burger just got the Scotland gig. Been involved with SA A side after doing so well with KZN Inland.
Who would we go to next ? Maketa (think being assistant to Otis is a positive for him) , Prince, Boucher, Nkwe? Grant Morgan gets big raps at Dolphins but I've gone off him. Toyana, Adams and Klusener have fallen from their heights.
Rivash Gobind at the Warriors has done very well since taking over from Maketa..... in the MSL they got Eric Simons in for him to work with which would have been good for him with all his experience of SA and IPL etc
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Maximas
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Sri Lanka have always had a pretty handy new ball attack tbh, can think of many times in overseas tours where we would get early breakthroughs, particularly in England and New Zealand, but would struggle to run through the side after that.
Haven't been watching but I had a feeling watching the Aus tour that Lakmal was incredibly important to the attack, and him being there providing control and some movement is what allows guys like Vishwa Fernando to flourish, keen to see how the spinner goes too, read the scorecard and saw Karunaratne bowling and thought they had gone for Chamika again, sad to say but I was actually glad that Dimuth was bowling.
Nice surprise this anyway, anyone able to explain what happened with Amla and DRS?
Haven't been watching but I had a feeling watching the Aus tour that Lakmal was incredibly important to the attack, and him being there providing control and some movement is what allows guys like Vishwa Fernando to flourish, keen to see how the spinner goes too, read the scorecard and saw Karunaratne bowling and thought they had gone for Chamika again, sad to say but I was actually glad that Dimuth was bowling.
Nice surprise this anyway, anyone able to explain what happened with Amla and DRS?