South Africa strike on overcast morning

Lunch Sri Lanka 338 and 65 for 3 (Sangakkara 28*, Samaraweera 9*) lead South Africa 168 by 235 runs
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South Africa's quicks made two breakthroughs as they strained to keep Sri Lanka's lead within manageable proportions on the third morning in Durban. After an hour's play was lost due to a wet outfield, Kumar Sangakkara battled to be undefeated on 28 at lunch, his first contribution this series following three innings that have yielded three runs.

There are plenty of theories over what helps fast bowlers at Kingsmead. The Green Mamba is a usual suspect, but today the talk was about the change in wind direction that would help the ball jag around. It was overcast in Durban as well, but there was still no dramatic swing or seam for the South Africa fast bowlers.

That didn't stop them from probing away all session. Morne Morkel got his customary extra bounce to hassle the batsmen, Dale Steyn got a hint of away swing, and Marchant de Lange continued to impress on debut. The batsmen got a taste of what was to come in the first over of the day - Morkel got the first ball to fizz past the outside edge, and three deliveries later he got Sangakkara's outside edge only to see Mark Boucher's late dive distract Graeme Smith from pouching a catch at slip.

The batsmen were beaten on innumerable occasions in the first hour, and a majority of the runs came through the gully region. Paranavitana had a particularly torrid time - fidgety around the offstump, and was struck on the back as he ducked too late to a Morkel short ball. Eight of his nine runs came through not entirely assured glides past gully, before his innings ended with an edge to fourth slip.

Mahela Jayawardene and Sangakkara then eased the lead past 200 with a series of boundaries against more testing fast bowling. The stand ended when Jayawardene unwisely decided to pad up to a de Lange incutter which would have gone on to hit off stump.

Sangakkara, however, survived till lunch and grew in confidence over the course of the innings. Towards the end of the session, he whipped a gift from Jacques Kallis on the leg stump for four before upper cutting de Lange for another boundary. He still has first-innings hero Thilan Samaraweera for company, and the talented youngsters Angelo Mathews and Dinesh Chandimal to follow. With the lead already 235, South Africa need something special to end their Durban jinx.

Source: http://www.espncricinfo.com/south-africa-v-sri-lanka-2011/content/story/547215.html?CMP=OTC-RSS

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