All eyes probably will be on IPL but there is a small little 3 match T20 series which will be played between Srilanka and South Africa starting today in Capetown. If anyone asks about how the tour went for Srilanka to Srilankan fans,they would probably not in a position to say whether they are happy or sad. because they just created history by whitewashing South Africa in a 2 match test series from no where and they were expected to carry that form into the limited overs but they hardly seemed to inspire as they were whitewashed by South Africans in the 5 match one day series. Now they both will battle it out in a 3 match T20 series where South Africa have named two different squads for this T20 series, for the first game all their star players like FAF, de KOCK, MILLER, TAHIR will take field while for the remaining two T20s all the IPL bound players are given rest which means they will come directly ro participate in IPL and those two T20s will be captained by JP DUMINY, while the first match will be captained by FAF.
As far as SriLankans are concerned they once again going into the series with an in experienced side with Malinga captaining the side they probably will be hoping for their big players like Thisara Perera Dickwella and T20 specialist ISURU UDANA to come good so that they can give some sort of competition to their mighty opponent, bur after all its funny format as span of two or three overs can change the game to either side.
For cricket fans they can can use these matches to just warm up their mood before the all big IPL
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