Sri Lanka v India
For
the first three overs on a blustery afternoon in Hambantota, Sri Lanka
looked hurled. Running in through powerful winds, their unfastening
bowlers discovered rhythm elusive and lines hard to control. Lasith
Malinga got no movement; the debutant Isuru Udana's first over comprised
11 globes and contained 16 sprints; there were heedless overthrows and
misfields; and India tallied 31 for 0 with scarcely a risk. And then
Thisara Perera, in the midst of his best home summer, altered everything
and turned Sri Lanka's quest to draw grade in the sequence into a
cruise. ."
South Africa
South
Africa's batsmen have rushed up the ICC Test rankings to live at four
of the peak six spots after their colossal presentation in the first
check at The Oval. Jacques Kallis is at No. 2, Hasim Amla (3), AB de
Villiers (5) and Graeme Smith (6). Sri Lanka's Kumar Sangakkara stayed
No. 1, while Shivnarine Chanderpaul fallen two spots to No. 4. Kallis
furthermore unseated Bangladesh's Shakib Al Hasan as the No. 1
allrounder in checks.
Kallis' unbeaten 182 in South Africa's 637 for 2 moved him up from No. 4
in the grading for check batsmen. Amla, whose 311 was a South African
record, increased three locations while Smith ascended four places from
tenth. De Villiers, who did not get an opening to bat in the
innings-and-12-run victory, dropped two locations from third.
Today's match
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