South Africa Vs Sri Lanka 1st Test Day 3 Highlights - Feb 15, 2019

Watch SL v SA cricket highlights today - First test day two from Kingsmead, Durban (South Africa) Thursday, 14th February 2019.

Stumps Sri Lanka 191 and 83 for 3 (Oshada Fernando 28*, Kusal Perera 12*) trail South Africa 235 and 259 (du Plessis 90, de Kock 55, Embuldeniya 5-66, Vishwa 4-71) by 221 runs

SL was floated by Lasith Embuldeniya's introduction five-for that shaken SA before tea, yet trust scattered not long after as they lost a grasp of wickets to give the hosts absolute control of the 1st Test.

South Africa rode on de Kock's second fifty of the match and du Plessis' 90 to an inch increasingly like 300 going before losing 5 for 8 to set Sri Lanka 304. By then, their quicks dove in following a solid second-innings beginning from Dimuth Karunaratne and Lahiru Thirimanne. At the point when the 42-run stand was broken, they nipped out two more, and when awful light passed on an early end to methods not long after 4.30pm, Sri Lanka was tottering an 88 for 3.

On his universal introduction, Embuldeniya got 5 for 66 to bowl South Africa out for 259 in their second innings. With Vishwa Fernando likewise taking 4 for 71, the hosts disintegrated. Du Plessis was a piece of two essential organizations, first including 96 working together with de Kock and afterward a further 60 with Vernon Philander to push his group further into security before the sensational breakdown.

The huge turnaround for Sri Lanka came after the 66th over, when the ball must be switched in the wake of grabbing a white imprint from arriving on one of the wrinkle lines. South Africa included only 28 pursues the ball was changed, Embuldeniya and Fernando striking over and over.

Embuldeniya's expulsion of Philander kicked things off. Having incidentally received a cautious line from over the wicket, the left-arm spinner exchanged around and before long motivated one to slide through, beating the under edge and rattling the stumps. Vishwa then showed signs of improvement of du Plessis after a connecting with the fight among bat and ball. He vexed him with zipping and brought hesitation into his batting. The vulnerability before long advised as du Plessis bore arms to one that seemed in to hit his front cushion directly before the stumps.

Embuldeniya had his fifth when K Rabada gloved a turning conveyance onto his thigh with N Dickwella finishing the catch. South Africa was nine down in the extremely next over when Fernando exasperates K Maharaj's stumps. DW Steyn kept going all of six conveyances previously he strolled over the stumps to flick, just to uncover the stumps that were shaken.

The speed of their breakdown notwithstanding, South Africa had gotten a kick out of a beneficial morning with the bat as du Plessis and de Kock immediately moved their gathering from correspondence into a position of solidarity. Having started bit by bit, F du Plessis got up to speed to the more courageous Q de Kock with two or three drives off Lakmal, the first took the gathering's score past 150. Du Plessis played with a straight bat, high elbow and held the position for the cameras as he bound it through the spreads.

With both batsmen ticking, the lead before long advanced past 200, and there were different worries for Sri Lanka in the field. K Mendis was struck on an as of now tied right hand as he jumped low to pocket a thick edge off du Plessis and promptly left the field in torment. He didn't return out for the rest of the session, in spite of the fact that his nonattendance was for the most part preparatory as he is as yet recouping from awful finger damage he got on Sri Lanka's ongoing voyage through Australia.

It was Embuldeniya who at last got through for Sri Lanka, catching de Kock with one that spun back in pointedly to hit the cushion. Philander strolled in with South Africa officially 235 ahead, and with du Plessis raising his eighteenth Test fifty, and first at this ground, the pair batted on into the second session before the difference in ball additionally brought a difference in fortunes for Sri Lanka.

Their bowlers guaranteed they won the session, yet their batsmen were left with a stupendous undertaking. Dimuth Karunaratne and Lahiru Thirimanne made due until tea and afterward lifted things up from there on as South Africa talented them a few additional lives. To begin with, du Plessis and Elgar both stood unmoving as an edge off Lahiru Thirimanne's bat flew directly between them at second and third slip, and South Africa at that point neglected to see a feathered edge off a Dimuth Karunaratne drift outside off.

Be that as it may, the Sri Lankan skipper couldn't make the most of the possibility with respect to the second time in the match, he was rejected lbw by Philander, and for the second time consumed a survey endeavoring to get the choice toppled. With Thirimanne having flashed an edge to du Plessis in the slips, Sri Lanka lost both of their openers in a matter of minutes after they had put on 42.

Kusal Mendis endured only eight balls previously he, as well, scratched off to Duanne Olivier and after a moderately relentless begin, Sri Lanka was wobbling at 52 for 3. Unbowed, Oshada Fernando and Kusal Perera played their shots and rode their fortunes to include a solid 31 for the fourth wicket before the climate shut in, however, Sri Lanka needs a further 221 rushes to win the Test and, on current proof, that all out ought to be past the guests.