SA vs SL Test Match: The most difficult situations for any Asian team in Test cricket are found in SENA countries, something similar has been seen with the Sri Lanka cricket team. In the last few months, while the Sri Lankan team has shown excellent performance on the field in all three formats of cricket, no one expected that something would be seen in the Durban Test against South Africa which has not been seen in Sri Lankan cricket history to date. For the first time, the Sri Lankan team was bowled out in a Test innings without crossing the 50-run mark, with this the Sri Lankan team has created a new shameful record by breaking its 30-year-old record of lowest score in Test.
Sri Lanka’s innings ended on just 42 runs in the Durban Test.
Sri Lanka’s team is currently on a tour of South Africa where it has reached to play a 2-match test series against the host team. The bowlers of the Sri Lankan team showed an excellent performance and restricted the first innings of the African team to a score of just 191. After this, better performance was expected from the batsmen, but the picture was the opposite, in which the fast bowlers of the South African team restricted the first innings of the Sri Lankan team to a score of just 42 in 13.5 overs. With this, this has also become Sri Lanka’s lowest score in any innings in Test cricket. Earlier in the year 1994, the Sri Lankan team was restricted to 71 runs in its first innings in the Kandy Test match against Pakistan.
Lowest score ever by any team in a Test against South Africa
Sri Lanka’s team has registered another bad record by getting all out at just 42 runs in the Durban Test match, which is now the lowest score of any team in a Test match against South Africa. Earlier in 2013, New Zealand’s team was all out at just 45 runs in the Cape Town Test match. Apart from this, in 2011, the Australian team was also all out at a score of 47 runs in a match played at the Cape Town ground.