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1st Test: South Africa vs Sri Lanka | Match Report
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Monday, 19 December 2011 19:36 |
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Day 1 : Batting first Sri Lankans were expected to struggle against Steyn and they did. But they struggled even more to cope with Philander. Philander has been extremely impressive since his Test debut and he troubled the Sri Lankans to no end with his line, length and pace. 4 players breached the 30 run mark but no one could cross 40 as Sri Lanka were bundled out for 180 as Philander and Steyn shared 9 wickets. Rudolph and Smith negotiated the Sri Lankan attack without much problems as they posted a fifty opening stand. Smith notched up his fifty and it looked like they would see out the day before Smith fell as Saffers reached 90/1.
Day 2 : Sri Lanka had better luck on day 2 as they managed to strike at regular intervals. At one point South Africa were 173/5 and it seemed that Sri Lanka could restrict the lead to 100 odd runs. But ABD had different plans. He put on fifty partnerships with Prince and Boucher taking South Africa past 300 before he fell for 99. Another collapse and South Africa were stuttering at 350/9 but Boucher and Tahir defied them till the end of the day with Boucher unbeaten on 49 as SA ended day 2 at 389/9.
Day 3 : Boucher went on to notch up a fifty as along with Tahir took South Africa past 400 before Welegedara finally had him nicking one to Silva. If Sri Lankans were hoping for a better batting performance the second time around they couldn’t have been more wrong. Before the ball even lost its sheen they were down to 19/3 and then to 37/4 as the top order failed yet again. Samarweera with 32 was the only batsman with a notable contribution as they once again fell to the guile of Philander who picked up another fifer to end the match with 10 wickets. Sri Lanka were skittled out for 15 as South Africa won by an innings and 81 runs.
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