For a team that has almost always been near the summit of the Test rankings, South Africa's recent home record is amazingly ordinary - no series wins in more than three years. Their performances at Kingsmead in that period are similarly bleak losing to each of the other major contenders for the title of world's best Test team. Graeme Smith and his side get the chance to erase both those blots this week as they take on a rambling Sri Lanka.
After subsiding for below 200 in both innings of the first Test, the Sri Lanka batsmen won't be overly excited at the sight of a green-tinged track. In a bid to bolster the batting, Sri Lanka are think over bringing in highly rated wicketkeeper-batsman Dinesh Chandimal in place of Kaushal Silva, who hasn't had the best of times in his three matches as substitute for regular glove man Prasanna Jayawardene.
Sri Lankan cricket is the number of Tests they have gone without a victory since the retirement of their greatest player, Muttiah Muralitharan, last year. That now stands at 15, but almost as upsetting is that in only two of those matches have Sri Lanka managed to bowl out the opposition twice. Adding to the troubles on the field, are the many problems off it. A bankrupt board which is under pressure to pay player salaries, and has forever postponed its domestic matches.
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After subsiding for below 200 in both innings of the first Test, the Sri Lanka batsmen won't be overly excited at the sight of a green-tinged track. In a bid to bolster the batting, Sri Lanka are think over bringing in highly rated wicketkeeper-batsman Dinesh Chandimal in place of Kaushal Silva, who hasn't had the best of times in his three matches as substitute for regular glove man Prasanna Jayawardene.
Sri Lankan cricket is the number of Tests they have gone without a victory since the retirement of their greatest player, Muttiah Muralitharan, last year. That now stands at 15, but almost as upsetting is that in only two of those matches have Sri Lanka managed to bowl out the opposition twice. Adding to the troubles on the field, are the many problems off it. A bankrupt board which is under pressure to pay player salaries, and has forever postponed its domestic matches.
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