SRI LANKA ODI SERIES
AB’s experience helps Proteas to resounding win
Hambantota lies 7,326km clear across the Indian Ocean to the northeast from Port Elizabeth‚ where the first one-day international (ODI) between SA and Sri Lanka was played on Saturday. But for AB de Villiers, those disparate dots were connected by the St George’s Park pitch. "The conditions reminded me a bit of a Sri Lankan pitch that we played on not long ago‚ so we really had to adapt well in the beginning‚" De Villiers said. "I was quite worried that their spinners were going to play a big role in the second half of the game. I knew we had to bowl them out for less than 250 in order to stay in the game. "So, I thought we batted really well‚ the new-ball bowlers asked the right questions‚ and then [Imran Tahir] opened it up very nicely for everyone to have a fantastic fielding session." Which Sri Lankan pitch was De Villiers talking about? "In Hambantota the [pitch for the] deciding game was actually worse than this." That was in July 2014‚ when De Villiers led SA to victory by 82...
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