Not often does a bowler who takes no wickets in a match give a media conference and another, who takes 10, fail to do so, writes Telford Vice. But the second Test between SA and Sri Lanka at Newlands, which the home side won by 282 runs to clinch the series 2-0, was no ordinary match. Instead, it was Kyle Abbott’s last Test because he had signed a Kolpak contract. So Abbott — wicketless in 23 nonetheless fine overs — spoke to the media at length and Kagiso Rabada, who bowled like a runaway train on fire for his match haul of 10/92 — the best figures by a South African in the 24 Tests they have played against the Lankans — was nowhere to be seen. Rabada’s performance, and a century and half-century by Dean Elgar and another ton by Quinton de Kock, earned SA the victory. It also meant the home side have won the series ahead of the third Test at the Wanderers. All on a pitch green and grassy enough to make even its creator, Evan Flint, nervous. "For an opening batsman to get a hundred ...
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