PREVIEW
By Srian Obeyesekere
While shell shocked India by defeat to hosts Sri Lanka on Sunday, will seek to shake off that bad taste that ended an 8 match winning streak at the expense of a struggling South Africa tomorrow, it will by large be a now or never fling for Laura Wolvaardt’s team to come good where victory against the Indians as well as against Sri Lanka on the 9th will be paramount if Laura Wolvaardt’s team is to make it to the crunch finals at the R. Premadasa International Cricket Stadium.
The South Africans have played one match less than the other two. but their form book downsising factor has been the two bad defeats to India and Sri Lanka in losses from their last 9 outings.
Therein, Wolvaardt’s charges, an outfit not short of potential talent, will have to seriously mount their best cricket if they are to go the distance starting with strong India which leads the points table with 4 points on better net run rate of 0.433 and Sri Lanka also 4 points, but less net run rate of -0.166.
For Harmanpreet Kaur’s Indians the game against the South Africans will moreover be the ground to repeicing their act together following the bashing at the hands of a highly resurgent Sri Lankan outfit that outdid them by a superior batting display.
This post is an official press release by Sri Lanka Cricket (SLC).
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