Proteas in dominant mood
Vernon Philander and Kagiso Rabada torment Sri Lanka’s batsmen
Rarely has consecutive sessions of play produced as radically different cameos of cricket as that seen in the second Test at Newlands on Tuesday. Between lunch and tea on the second day, SA bowled 144 legal deliveries at Sri Lanka and conceded runs off only 22. The 114 balls bowled in the Lankan innings after tea yielded 23 scoring shots. Not much difference there but there was a world of it in the wicket column. Two went down before tea, the other eight after. That saw the visitors dismissed for 110 in reply to SA’s first innings of 392 — after being well set at 56/1. By stumps, SA were 35 without loss in their second innings, which took their lead to 317. Vernon Philander and Kagiso Rabada shared eight wickets and Keshav Maharaj claimed the other two, both in the top four. But the star was Kyle Abbott, who was close to unhittable in the 48 balls he bowled, 45 of which were too good for the garnering of even a single. Whatever is being served for tea in the dressing room, perhaps t...
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