SRI LANKA v SOUTH AFRICA ODI & T20 SERIES

By Kumail Jaffer
IF CAPTAIN Lasith Malinga was hoping the T20 format of the game would serve his Sri Lanka side better in South Africa, he was about to be given a spinning shock at Cape Town.
Regardless, following Imran Tahir’s heroics in the first game of the T20 series which came days after South Africa completed a comfortable 5-0 sweep in the ODIs, the Sri Lanka captain sounded a positive note. “T20 is a very interesting game – we tried our best, but at the end of the day we didn’t get what we need,” said a frust...