A quick turn up between first two tests made to feel the third test a much longer gap than it is, and lot gone around in Protea nation with kolpak signings off the field which may not affect them now but the future yet to be decided. Although for now the hosts have dominated the Lankans in every aspect to seal the series and it's about extending it with a sweep in the third test which is gearing it's way from Thursday at Johannesburg.
And it was that merry problem Mathews pointed out prior to the series is affecting them a lot, as the batsmen unable to turn up to give the bowlers a chance to bowl at. There has been some starts and a couple of fifties but there hasn't been a knock that lifted their spirits up and it has to be that knock at this situation they are going through.
On the other hand proteas showing renewed aggression since renewed captaincy under Duplessis and if their anything they look for is a big knock from Amla, who is struggling to get to a milestone from a while and it will be memorable if gets in his 100th test at Johannesburg.
While the bowling well led from the front with Philander and Rabada, although keshav Maharaj has been tight at the other end with minimum help from the surfaces on offered.
Meanwhile for Lankans it has be kumara to made decisive move with the ball alongside consistent Lakmal and Pradeep, but their shuffling in the order to hadn't helped them, which they thought could be but those may not make change if they force to make same mistakes.
Pitch
So far it has been the movement that troblued Lankans in the series and now at Johannesburg bounce gonna add to it, to make it even challenging for the batsnen.
South Africa
With the form they are going through the series they don't have to change the things much, but Abbott out with kolpak signings Parnell makes a way into the side.
Probable XI): 1 Dean Elgar, 2 Stephen Cook, 3 Hashim Amla, 4 JP Duminy, 5 Faf du Plessis (c), 6 Temba Bavuma, 7 Quinton de Kock (wk), 8 Vernon Philander, 9 Wayne Parnell, 10 Kagiso Rabada, 11 Keshav Maharaj
Srilanka
The visitors too find it hard to make any changes to the squad as they unable to figure out what the best order is to with the form they are going through
Probable XI: 1 Kaushal Silva, 2 Dimuth Karunaratne, 3 Kusal Mendis, 4 Dhananjaya de Silva, 5 Angelo Mathews (c), 6 Dinesh Chandimal (wk), 7 Upul Tharanga, 8 Rangana Herath, 9 Lahiru Kumara, 10 Suranga Lakmal, 11 Nuwan Pradeep
At the end it is tough for Lankans to come back with the way their batsmen crumbled in the second test, if they can do that it would be moral booster for them in a big. And it all depends on the contest between struggling Lankan batsmen and dominating Protea bowlers.
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