Pitchfly
Hi Sri Lankan Cricket Lovers,
This is my first post.
While the circumstances are positively different, couldn’t help but notice an eerily familiar odi scorecard from SL tour to SA in 2017.
20192017Johannesburg1st odi of 5 match series in SAPort ElizabethToss : Won by South Africa and elected to bowl firstOshada FernandoDebut of a SL Top order Batsmen Sandun WeerakodyLungi NgidiSL openers dismissed for single digit score by the new ball bowler partnering RabadaWayne ParnellTahir after 4 overs 4-1-9-1Imran Tahir enters the fray and immediately breaks a threatening sri lankan rearguardTahir after 4 overs 4-0-9-1I Tahir 10-1-26-3He doesn’t concede a boundary in his entire spell and finishes with almost Identical bowling figures being the chief architect for SA to limit SL to a below par totalI Tahir 10-0-26-3BKG Mendis 60 (95m 73b 5×4 1×6) K Mendis Top scores for SL with a promising 60 but finds hard to combat Tahir’s wiles ultimately perishing to himBKG Mendis 62(120m 94b 10×4 0x6)SA won by 8 wickets with 67 balls remainingSA romps to victory with only 2 wickets down and plenty of balls to spare against a dejected SL Bowling & fielding performanceSA won by 8 wickets with 94 balls remaining
sorry got the editing wrong.
@pitchfly, No worries. Repost it with the correct format and I will delete this one.