South Africa's fallacies against spin was well exposed and documented in the first Test itself. Yet, a brave front put up by captain Faf du Plessis, gave a hook on a possible improved show at SSC. For a brief period after Lunch, led by du Plessis, the visitors offered a substantial evidence of that. He attacked. His partner, Hashim Amla, too stepped down the track time and again. And in a counter-attacking period of batting, they stitched a quick half-century stand. However, once Amla departed - in a fashion similar to his dismissals in the last two innings, caught at short leg bat-pad,
SOUTH AFRICA TOUR OF SRI LANKA, 2018
Dananjaya, Dilruwan feast on South Africa's failed spin test

Akila Dananjaya bagged his second five-wicket haul in Tests. © AFP
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