South Africa will begin life without talismanic batsman AB De Villiers in the longest format of the game when they take on Sri Lanka in Galle on Thursday. De Villiers has been the mainstay of the Proteas batting in the last decade but chose to hang up his boots earlier this year after the twin taxing test series against India and Australia. Continue reading “Proteas begin life without AB De Villiers”
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Markram, De Bruyn fail to impress against Board President XI
South Africa may still have to rely heavily on their veterans after youngsters Aiden Markram and Theunis de Bruyn failed to impress in their warm up game against the Sri Lankan Board President’s XI.
Both Markram and De Bruyn are expected to shoulder more responsibility this year following the retirement of AB de Villiers, but the duo found the going tough, with the former, impressive at home against Australia and India, getting a first ball duck and the latter making only 11.
With Quinton de Kock’s poor form also continuing, it appears that the Proteas will once again have to rely heavily on the veteran duo of Faf du Plessis and Hashim Amla. Skipper Du Plessis was the top scorer for the visitors, scoring 79 off just 85 balls. Amla, the captain on South Africa’s last tour to Sri Lanka, wasn’t too far behind either, making 78 before he retired.
The other notable contributions came from opener Dean Elgar (43) and middle order batsman Temba Bavuma (58). However the Proteas collapsing from 223/3 to 338 all out on a fairly placid track would not have impressed coach Otis Gibson.
South Africa’s first test against Sri Lanka begins on Thursday at Galle.
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List of Test Batsman to score a century before lunch on Day 1 of the Test Match-
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India vs Afghanistan Match Preview-2018
Team India will be squaring of with Afghanistan in an upcoming test series which is scheduled to begin in Bangalore from 14th to 18th June 2018.
Ajinkya Rahane will be leading the test squad in the absence of the regular skipper Virat Kohli.
Afghanistan were given the test status by the International Cricket Council in June 2017.
It is being termed a historic match which will be hosted in Bengaluru.
Team India will be seeing this series as preparation for upcoming England tour.
India will be wary of 19 year old spinner Rashid Khan who has been in an sensational form in the recently concluded IPL 2018.
The ace spinner bagged 12 wickets in the T-20 series against Bangladesh.
Pace Bowler Dawlat Zadran will be missing due to injury, and his place will be taken by Wafadar Momand.