In a gripping Test match at St George’s Park, South Africa and Sri Lanka face off, with both teams missing key opportunities that could secure their place in the ICC World Test Championship final
Temba Bavuma, Proteas ’ captain going for a catch during the International Test Series Second Test Day 2 match against Sri Lanka at Dafabets St George’s Park in Gqebherha. BackpagePixIf either South Africa or Sri Lanka fail to reach the ICC World Test championship final, they will only have themselves to blame.
Sri Lanka’s strategy for most of the two afternoon sessions was deceptively simple and oppressively effective: get in, do not get out and grind the Proteas down.A Verreynne century started the day with a few wickets taken in the last 2 sessions play.December 6, 2024 Nissanka, along with Chandimal, was dogged throughout, diligently avoiding risk while keeping the board ticking along at over three runs an over.
But that’s when the red mist took over. There simply is no other explanation for Nissanka charging down the wicket to Keshav Maharaj. The left-arm spinner had been uncharacteristically ineffective for most of the day and offered no sort of threat whatsoever to the Sri Lankan batters. Paterson was comfortably the Proteas’ most penetrative bowler on the day, while equally up to the task of toiling into the wind.
With the tourists sticking blindly to the short-pitched strategy that had worked the day before, Verreynne adopted an almost Twenty20 approach.
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