"Twelfth man duties"
Andrew Hall - 10 August 2000
Its crunch time on the morning of the third and final test match here
in Sri Lanka. The day has started late due to the arrival of the
seasonal monsoon rains and hopefully they will stay away long enough
for us to win this match and take the series.
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"The Fizz from the treatment table"
Craig Smith - 08 August 2000
Well, what can you say? Phew! Wow! Man! just about sums it up. I've
been in a few close finishes during my 10 years with this cricket team
and yesterday's one in Kandy was just as nerve racking as Sydney in
'94 or Faisalabad, Pakistan in '97.
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"Go for the gap my china"
Makhaya Ntini - 02 August 2000
When we arrived here in Sri Lanka on the 1st of July, there was
nothing much happening but as the tour progressed and the days have
gone by, we've ventured out a bit into the city of Colombo to check
out its features
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"The Rhodes are alive with the sound of rugby"
David Terbrugge - 01 August 2000
Well, we've arrived in Kandy, the mountainous village region of Sri Lanka where the second test match is to be held. Since I wrote to you last, we've been in Colombo playing a 2-day practice game in preparation for this test match.
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"T-shirt fashion show"
Andrew Hall - 28 July 2000
Day 27 and yes, it seems like we are still not used to the heat. We saw a bit of darkened cloud yesterday evening and there was a brief rain storm which lasted about 10 minutes but then again the skies cleared up and the heat prevailed.
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"Kallis and Rhodes rip offs"
Neil McKenzie - 25 July 2000
Well, we've just returned from Galle, a lovely seaside resort a few
hours drive down the coast from Colombo with picturesque views and
really interesting people. I'm sure most of you saw the seaside
setting on TV as described by Tony Greig on their walkabout ventures.
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"Tuk-tuk Grand Prix"
David Terbrugge - 20 July 2000
Howzit from Galle, Sri Lanka. It's been a long hard day for the SA
team in the field on this, the first day of the first Test Match
against Sri Lanka. It has not been one of our better bowling
performances but the team has pulled it back OK and hopefully we can
be more competitive as the game goes on.
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"Virus attacks"
Mark Boucher - 20 July 2000
Before we arrived in SL, we were all told the story by the guys who
had been here on the "A" tour in '98 that July and August was not to
the best time of year to tour here. The reason being was that this is
the rainy season and they had lost about 3 of their 6 weeks to the
monsoon waters from above.
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"Tight Quadriceps Muscles"
Andrew Hall - 17 July 2000
This is my first tour away with the national team following my
other excursions to the Super 8’s tournament in Malaysia and an
SA Invitation team’s trip to Malawi back in 1995. So, I was quite
thrilled to be included in this touring party of Sri Lanka.
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"Sick, lame and dead"
Roger Telemachus - 13 July 2000
Let me start by saying that I am a bit frustrated at the moment
as the last game of cricket that I played was on March the 30th,
earlier this year. I was involved in the 3-match series against
the Aussies but did not get on the field. That has been the same
here in Sri Lanka
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"Meat lovers from the Free State"
Boeta Dippenaar - 6 July 2000
The first thing that struck me over the few days we've been here in
Sri Lanka is the close similarity to India, having just toured there a
few months ago. The temperatures are about equal and the humidity is
the same as we experienced in the one-dayer in Cochin, really hot and
humid.
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"Pink is my favourite colour"
Neil McKenzie - 4 July 2000
After a long and tedious trip we finally reached our final destination Colombo,
Sri Lanka only to be greeted by a tropical monsoon storm. It's the sort of rain
that you need a sideways umbrella for as the wind blows quite prodigiously from
the lateral side.
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