South Africa blast out Sri Lanka to start campaign in style
South Africa’s Anrich Nortje, right, celebrates with teammate Keshav Maharaj after the dismissal of Sri Lanka’s Charith Asalanka during the ICC Men’s T20 World Cup cricket match between South Africa and Sri Lanka at the Nassau County International Cricket Stadium in Westbury, New York, Monday, June 3, 2024. (AP/PTI)
If the IPL was about teams trying to break the 300-run barrier, cricket at the Big Apple threatens to make 150 seem like a dream. On a drop-in pitch in New York that had its birth in Adelaide and growth in Florida, and played like a combination of Centurion and Colombo tracks – the ball often kicked up with seam movement and occasionally died down, bouncing in front of the wicketkeeper or stopping on the batsmen – the South African seamers bared their fangs. And Sri Lanka were shot out for 77. (READ MORE)
