Flat footed Sri Lanka crumble in Port Elizabeth giving South Africa clean sweep.– -BY TREVINE RODRIGO IN MELBOURNE. (eLanka Sports Editor) Sri Lanka batted themselves out of contention to play in the Test Championship final after a customary batting debacle in Port Elizabeth. After their bowlers gave them an fighting chance to level the two Test series, Sri Lanka’s batters were incapable of scoring 143 with five wickets intact required on the last day,  as the turning track saw them crash to a 109- run defeat giving the home team a 2-0 sweep and a solid seat at number two in the rankings. Keshav Maharaj exposed Sri Lanka’s weakness against top quality spin with a match winning five-wicket haul. So the questions that arise from the tour is that Sri Lanka’s batters are ill equipped to handle genuine pace, swing and spin. It certainly puts the onus back on the ...

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Our Women’s T 20 team needs a complete revamp after the WC debacle. – By Sunil Thenabadu Sri Lanka’s  team’s performance at the T20 World Cup could be described as “not acceptable” a consequence of skill “failing us” after we were completely  knocked out of the tournament .It is a pity for the Asian Champions to be classified as the worst out of the ten teams that participated, even performing worst than the minnows Scotland who has had a better record been a team that resisted against the better teams in their  group. Sri Lanka have lost all of their four matches in the World Cup, hence obviously cannot advance from  the group after coming into the event with the expectation they could go to semi finals after an impressive last 20 months having crowned as the Asia cup champions. Since the last T20 World Cup, Sri Lanka had won ...

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