SA Vs SL test series

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David Bedingham got two lives facing Asitha Fernando, both catches dropped on short balls when he was on 1 and 5 in 1st innings. Then got out for 6 runs.

SL bring back Asitha Fernando again to bowl to David early in his 2nd innings.

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David Bedingham got two lives facing Asitha Fernando, both catches dropped on short balls when he was on 1 and 5 in 1st innings. Then got out for 6 runs.

SL bring back Asitha Fernando again to bowl to David early in his 2nd innings.

Another short ball in first over to him by Asitha. Well directed by Asitha. David manags to duck it. Played well but his gloves were not far away. Needs to keep hands away.

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David Bedingham got two lives facing Asitha Fernando, both catches dropped on short balls when he was on 1 and 5 in 1st innings. Then got out for 6 runs.

SL bring back Asitha Fernando again to bowl to David early in his 2nd innings.

Another short ball in first over to him by Asitha. Well directed by Asitha. David manags to duck it. Played well but his gloves were not far away. Needs to keep hands away.

One more short stuff to David in Asithas second over to David. This was more into the line of the body and luckly for David it went up far away to the right of the fielder. Needs to improve hsi defense against short pitch. Certainly SL think tank have identified some weakness in his batting and they have asked bowlers to execute the plan to exploit it.

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Temba bowled by Prabhath trying to play a sweep behind the wicket. Ball distubring the leg stump. Stabilized the innings with a decent knock of 66 (116 balls) and taking SA lead to 284. SL badly need wickets as the lead is already in red zone.

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Kyle played the ball from Prabath up in the air, could not keep it down and just bounced ahead of short leg. David Bedingham has quickly moved to 33 (47 balls).

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Prabath strikes to take his 4th wickets of the innings. David edges it the slips. Pitched on leg stump and spun away catching the outer edge of the bat.

SA 268/6.

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Vishwa strikes. SA 273/7. Leading by 303.

VIshwa has bowled nice line and length since yesterday althought at low pace. Gets rewarded as Kyle edges it to keeper Kusal Mendis.

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4. Marco hits one fro Prabath past the deep midwicket boundary. Every run adding alievating pressure on SL.

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Tries to hit another one from Prabath but bad shot selection this time as the fielder was kept for the catch. Could'nt clear him. SA 279/8. Lead of 309.

5 fer for Parabath. Well deserved. Bowled a 19 over spell without break yesterday. Has been bowling a leg stump line today. 12 without a break today and given 42 runs picking 3 wickets (Temba, David and Marco) in this spell.

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91 runs for 5 wickets in this 27 over session. Good session for SL, however SA are leading by 312 runs which is match winning imo.

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Lead over 300. That's enough, surely?

The race for the World Test Championship final is interesting. New Zealand and England are out of it, right? It's between South Africa, India, Australia and Sri Lanka, I think.

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South Africa 317 all out

Bavuma 66
Markram 55
Stubbs 47

Jayasuriya 5-129

Target 348

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Boundary at long off by Angelo driving a full pitch ball by Kagiso Rabada. Nice ystart to 3rd session for SL. SL 51/2.

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Wonderful over. by Kagiso Rabada. Apart from the first ball 4, the 3rd,4th,5th and 6th ball were simply awesome line ang length. Angelo played at all 4 of those and the ball missed outside edge on all of those.

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Dane Paterson strikes. SL 64/3. Reviewed but SL lose it. Umpires call. Dinsh Chandimal 29 (57 balls).

The first two overs by SA have been good.

SA need 7 wickets and SL need 284 runs.