Cricket: SA vs Sri Lanka - 2011/12

[AirWolf]

http://www.espncricinfo.com/south-af...plate=fixtures

[AirWolf]

With the Aussie series done, the next one to look forward to is Sri Lanka. Not quite the same challenge as the Aussies, but with SA blowing hot and cold, you never can be certain.

[alf101]

No T20's and a 3 test series.
Interesting choice...

[AirWolf]

No T20's and a 3 test series.
Interesting choice...

Saw that now - in the other thread someone mentioned 2 T20s at the end - doesn't show on the Cricinfo schedule though .

[Haldex]

I'm a huge Malinga fan!
Ill have to miss most of the series though

[Khanya]

Yeah, that was me. Mistaken it with the next country T20's.

[Khanya]

I'm a huge Malinga fan!
Ill have to miss most of the series though

That Maliga is a very big threat to us. Seems to perform quite well against us.

[MickeyD]

SA will crush them in the Tests (3-0) and win the ODI's (3-1, with a wash out).

Sri Lanka are weak compared to Australia.

[alf101]

I'm a huge Malinga fan!
Ill have to miss most of the series though

He retired from test cricket.

[killadoob]

SA will crush them in the Tests (3-0) and win the ODI's (3-1, with a wash out).

Sri Lanka are weak compared to Australia.

I am not so sure about that, with our batting form malinga will get all 10 wickets in his first spell .

No t20's, eish, i cannot see a reason why they would leave the t20's out.

[MickeyD]

I am not so sure about that, with our batting form malinga will get all 10 wickets in his first spell .

No t20's, eish, i cannot see a reason why they would leave the t20's out.

Malinga does not play in Tests. Most of our batsmen are used to him by now (via IPL) so the surprise factor is gone.

[killadoob]

Malinga does not play in Tests. Most of our batsmen are used to him by now (via IPL) so the surprise factor is gone.

O damn we will slaughter them.

[Garson007]

Loving the fact that we're playing the tests first. It gives us some momentum, but worrying that we still don't do home warm-up matches - why is that?

[Mike Hoxbig]

Pity that the new years test is pretty much entirely during the week.

[Eskimos]

Should be an easier series and honestly if the pitches are anything like they were in the Aus series we have to look to win the tests 3-0 and ODIs 4-1 (if no ran outs occur). SL haven't been in the best or most consistent form so anything less and we will be stagnating in mediocrity.

Anyone else find it a bit strange that we have a 3 week break before SL series and there isn't even one practice match scheduled for us? Really just get the SA A side or something to practice against, will do the guys good just to fine tune their skills.

No T20's and a 3 test series.
Interesting choice...

I am not so sure about that, with our batting form malinga will get all 10 wickets in his first spell .

No t20's, eish, i cannot see a reason why they would leave the t20's out.

Kind of glad that they left out the T20s to have a proper ODI series and at least a half test series. T20s are fun and all but they should be limited especially when there are time constraints and other forms suffer. Would have made more sense playing one T20 vs Aus and ending the series earlier and then playing one t20 against SL.

Malinga does not play in Tests. Most of our batsmen are used to him by now (via IPL) so the surprise factor is gone.

Don't know about that, sometimes even the most experienced batsman struggle to play him especially when he gets his yorkers right. He will be influential as a factor for them but hopefully we can keep our calm.