South Africa vs Sri lanka 1st test

[Nikhil_cric]

South Africa: 1 Dean Elgar, 2 Aiden Markram, 3 Hashim Amla, 4 Temba Bavuma, 5 Faf du Plessis (capt), 6 Quinton de Kock (wk), 7 Vernon Philander, 8 Keshav Maharaj, 9 Tabraiz Shamsi, 10 Kagiso Rabada, 11 Dale Steyn

Sri Lanka: 1 Dimuth Karunaratne, 2 Danushka Gunathilaka, 3 Dhananjaya de Silva, 4 Kusal Mendis, 5 Angelo Mathews, 6 Roshen Silva, 7 Niroshan Dickwella (wk), 8 Dilruwan Perera, 9 Rangana Herath, 10 Suranga Lakmal (capt), 11 Lakshan Sandakan

[Nikhil_cric]

Steyn bowling good lines and lengths but at 35, he's missing that extra bit of pace required to take wickets on these kind of surfaces.

[chewy]

Good to see Steyn back, probably will retire after WC 2019

[Sachinism]

Momumental effort from Karunaratne

[UrmiSinhaRay]

ABD shouldn't have retired before 19WC Imo.
Super selfishness

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[Sachinism]

Uncle Herath gets the breakthrough

[cowboysfan]

Saffers lost the match when they lost the toss,such is life.

[SK_IH]

Lanka demolishing the saffers,only ind can beat this Lanka team with consummate ease at home

[Clarke]

lower order battling besides Faf after SA were 51/6. SL could help us extend our lead in test ranking.

[sourab10forever]

If SL win/draw this match(or the next test)then India shall remain #1 in the test ranking atleast untill Dec 10th regardless of their series against England.

[Jimmy Cliff]

Karunaratne scoring 158* and 60 at a SR of 70+ in a low scoring game .

[rkt.india]

will this pitch be reported?

[VT87]

I always wonder why there is no backlash when these teams got humiliated in subcontinent. Nobody remember these matches even if they get white wash.

[sourab10forever]

73 lol

[Nikhil_cric]

Good news for us! Hopefully SL will create another wicket at SSC with turn and bounce and whitewash RSA. Would increase the gap between us and them .

[adi B]

Great result for our padosi ,now whitewash them 

[cowboysfan]

pitch wasnt that bad,we have seen worse.That asshole  ABD should have retired before our SA series and we would have won that one,he always sticks it to us.

[Gollum]

On 7/14/2018 at 2:36 PM, VT87 said:

I always wonder why there is no backlash when these teams got humiliated in subcontinent. Nobody remember these matches even if they get white wash.

SA are getting a lot of stick back home, check social media and coverage in SA news sites. Ultimately it is up to the supporters to highlight flaws or indulge in backlash, I hope Indian media grows a spine and questions some of our choices in ODI cricket....earlier there used to be heavy backlash in India (match ka mujrim days) but these days bikau media and experts hardly ever question our performances. Sadly even fans have changed...next time Dhoni plays in India they will line up and scream his name as he enters the field notwithstanding the current state of his game.  

[Gollum]

Congrats SL, it seems that 2015 India tour destroyed SA's psyche w.r.t playing in Asia. 

[Nikhil_cric]

16 minutes ago, Gollum said:

SA are getting a lot of stick back home, check social media and coverage in SA news sites. Ultimately it is up to the supporters to highlight flaws or indulge in backlash, I hope Indian media grows a spine and questions some of our choices in ODI cricket....earlier there used to be heavy backlash in India (match ka mujrim days) but these days bikau media and experts hardly ever question our performances. Sadly even fans have changed...next time Dhoni plays in India they will line up and scream his name as he enters the field notwithstanding the current state of his game.  

Indian fans had much longer memories back then. If Dhoni smashes a few IPL maximums , you can bet that a lot of fans would have forgotten and forgiven everything