You win the toss on a flat track, in bright sunshine, just days after your side has inflicted a painful psychological blow on your opponents. What do you do next?
What a difference a week makes. Seven days (or so) ago South Africa were amazing and Sri Lanka were rubbish. What about now?
Sri Lanka never win in South Africa. They got thumped last time, they haven’t even beaten anybody for ages, their batting is a shambles, they’ve got no bowlers and the captain’s rubbish. There’s only one winner in this.
Sod Christmas, it’s all about Boxing Day. We’ve taken time out of our hectic schedule of getting drunk and laughing at Australians to take a look at the second part of the Test double-header.