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Openers gritty as Sri Lanka begin 488 chase
- Updated: December 29, 2016
Lunch: Sri Lanka 205 and 27 for 0 (Silva 14*, Karunaratne 10*) need another 461 runs to beat South Africa 286 and 406 for 6 dec (Cook 117, de Kock 69, du Plessis 67*, Elgar 52)Live scorecard and ball-by-ball details
Sri Lanka’s openers survived testing 14-over period before lunch on the fourth day after South Africa declared to set the visitors a target of 488. As was the case during South Africa’s second innings, the seamers enjoyed less help from the surface than they had on the first two days of the Test, but Vernon Philander, Kyle Abbott and Kagiso Rabada ensured Dimuth Karunaratne and Kaushal Silva needed to be at their best to get through to lunch unscathed.
Karunatatne buckled down after a loose play-and-miss against Philander in the first over of Sri Lanka’s innings, and looked relatively secure at the crease, although both Philander and Abbott induced the occasional uncertain poke, …
