Sri Lanka Tour of South Africa, 2020-21

[Aislabie]

Tour Match
20-22 Dec 2020
Invitational XI vs Sri Lankans at Benoni

First Test
26-30 Dec 2020
South Africa vs Sri Lanka at Centurion

Third Test
3-7 Jan 2021
South Africa vs Sri Lanka at Johannesburg

Spoiler: South Africa Test squad

Temba Bavuma
Faf du Plessis
Dean Elgar
Sarel Erwee
Aiden Markram
Keegan Petersen
Rassie van der Dussen

Quinton de Kock
Kyle Verreynne

Wiaan Mulder

Beuran Hendricks
Keshav Maharaj
Lungi Ngidi
Anrich Nortje
Migael Pretorius
Glenton Stuurman

denotes a player who may be unavailable for First Test due to quarantine

Spoiler: Sri Lanka Test squad

Oshada Fernando
Santhush Gunathilake
Dimuth Karunaratne
Lahiru Thirimanne

Minod Bhanuka
Dinesh Chandimal
Niroshan Dickwella
Kusal Mendis
Kusal Perera

Dhananjaya de Silva
Wanindu Hasaranga
Dasun Shanaka

Dushmantha Chameera
Lasith Embuldeniya
Asitha Fernando
Vishwa Fernando
Lahiru Kumara
Suranga Lakmal
Dilshan Madushanka
Kasun Rajitha
Dilruwan Perera

 

[Bevab]

Can't wait to see the Proteas take to the field with the novel strategy of six players.

 

[Aislabie]

I was surprised to see no thread up for this series, so thought I'd put one up - especially in light of the huge selection issue coming up for South Africa in the first Test. Ten of their sixteen-man squad are potentially out of the first Test due to having played in domestic games where players later tested COVID-positive. The remaining six, therefore, can be expected to play in the first Test, including two debutants. The remaining five players will have to come out of the Warriors-Cobras match, or not have played at all in that round of domestic cricket.

An additional difficulty will be if the team is to fulfil its expected quota of non-white players for this Test, as it already has four white players out of the six definitely available.

If quotas are maintained|If quotas are ignored
Gihahn Cloete| JJ Smuts
Temba Bavuma | Temba Bavuma
Zubayr Hamza| Zubayr Hamza
Faf du Plessis | Faf du Plessis Quinton de Kock | Quinton de Kock Kyle Verreynne | Kyle Verreynne
Sinethemba Qeshile| Rudi Second
Prenelan Subrayen| George Linde
Anrich Nortje | Anrich Nortje Glenton Stuurman | Glenton Stuurman
Akhona Mnyaka| Marco Jansen

Of course it could all be a storm in a teacup, the players concerned test negative and we move on as normal.

It looks as if Temba Bavuma is the logical choice to promote someone as a makeshift opener - either that or perhaps Quinton de Kock does it and one of the other keepers takes the gloves. Honestly, I am really interested to see how this all plays out

 

[Yash.]

So 6 people to play the first test match? Cool

 

[Till Valhalla]

Rudi Second.
Noice.

 

[Master Bates]

I was surprised to see no thread up for this series, so thought I'd put one up - especially in light of the huge selection issue coming up for South Africa in the first Test. Ten of their sixteen-man squad are potentially out of the first Test due to having played in domestic games where players later tested COVID-positive. The remaining six, therefore, can be expected to play in the first Test, including two debutants. The remaining five players will have to come out of the Warriors-Cobras match, or not have played at all in that round of domestic cricket.

An additional difficulty will be if the team is to fulfil its expected quota of non-white players for this Test, as it already has four white players out of the six definitely available.

If quotas are maintained|If quotas are ignored
Gihahn Cloete| JJ Smuts
Temba Bavuma | Temba Bavuma
Zubayr Hamza| Zubayr Hamza
Faf du Plessis | Faf du Plessis
Quinton de Kock | Quinton de Kock
Kyle Verreynne | Kyle Verreynne
Sinethemba Qeshile| Rudi Second
Prenelan Subrayen| George Linde
Anrich Nortje | Anrich Nortje
Glenton Stuurman | Glenton Stuurman
Akhona Mnyaka| Marco Jansen

Of course it could all be a storm in a teacup, the players concerned test negative and we move on as normal.

It looks as if Temba Bavuma is the logical choice to promote someone as a makeshift opener - either that or perhaps Quinton de Kock does it and one of the other keepers takes the gloves. Honestly, I am really interested to see how this all plays out

how have you selected players who are not even in the squad?[DOUBLEPOST=1608966599][/DOUBLEPOST]Why do I feel Sri Lanka is going to win again?

 

[wasteyouryouth]

how have you selected players who are not even in the squad?[DOUBLEPOST=1608966599][/DOUBLEPOST]Why do I feel Sri Lanka is going to win again?

Could be some pressure on the South Africa bowlers. Nortje the most experienced seamer with 6 tests.

 

[Aislabie]

how have you selected players who are not even in the squad?

Because at the time there were only six players who were definitely available from that squad. Therefore, creativity occurred

 

[NILAYSHAH60]

What are the Lankans upto today? 256/3 in just 61 overs!!!!

South Africa is already under pressure.

 

[wasteyouryouth]

Fell asleep and SL were racing at about 54/3 from 11 overs. Seems to have been a good few hours for them since then.

 

[CerealKiller]

SL seem to have taken a liking to playing in SA

 

[LiveLoveABD]

Really hope SA win.

 

[CerealKiller]

Can't wait to see the Proteas take to the field with the novel strategy of six players.

Meanwhile, SL lose 4 players to injury during the match

 

[Neptune]

they have one bowler and dasun shanaka left. they need to bowl again too, this is a living nightmare.
can you imagine taking 6 bowling options in a match and then being left with 2 at the end

 

[Bevab]

Pretty incredible that Faf's best score comes at the tail end of his career.