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Had speculated after SL’s last game that Sanath might actually be looking forward to a game vs India to regain his touch. He might not have been at peak form today, but what was on show was good enough to leave a ragged bowling and fielding performance in further tatters. In fact, at the time he got out, barring Harbhajan, everyone looked hapless and fatalistic. The stats might make the Kapu-Kandamby partnership out to be very important, but while it kept out any resurgence from India, it also appeared like Sri Lanka were headed for an underachieving total before Kandamby took off big time in the final overs.
Though the pitch was a different one today, the Indians never really looked clued in on the chase and ended up suffering their worst ever defeat in Sri Lanka.
Not sure why anyone would take ratings and rankings seriously, but evidently that SA-born-Australian-wannabe-English commentator Tony Greig does, ’cause he was literally leaping around by the end of the game screaming that SA were back on top. Someone really needs to do unto him physically what Viv Richards did to him on a cricket field, an entire series.
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