SA vs SL | Twitter reacts as Lahiru Kumara’s finger-breaking delivery forces Wiaan Mulder to retire hurt

ByArijit Kundu, SportsCafe Editor

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Few venues around the globe are as challenging as South Africa. Australia is known for pace and bounce, and England is known to extract monotonous swing, but South African venues tend to encompass all of the above with uneven bounce, as was the case with Wiaan Mulder’s sudden exit on the second day.

South Africa were already four down on a rain-curtailed first day of the opening Test against Sri Lanka. With the sun baking down in the morning session of the following day, Temba Bavuma and Kyle Verannye faced the Sri Lankan heat with the pacers generating swing and uneven bounce. While the wicketkeeper-batter was a goner soon enough, Wiaan Mulder failed to assist the South African captain for long too, courtesy of a rising delivery from Lahiru Kumara.

On the first ball of the 26th over, Lahiru came over the wicket and targeted the hard length into the batter. The all-rounder tried to apply a forward defence with nimble feet but ended up getting hit on the gloves due to the uneven bounce. Immediately, Mulder was seen grimacing in pain as the physio strolled onto the field to assess his condition. Although he ingested a pain-killing pill, Mulder’s stay lasted just another five balls before he decided to trudge off the field due to prolonged pain at the end of the over. The Twitterverse enjoyed the fiery bowling from Lahiru who’s coming off an injury and troubling the hosts.

Brutal

— Pandit Pranoob (@pranoob76889)

An update

INJURY UPDATE:

Wiaan Mulder sustained a knock to his right middle finger, and will undergo an x-ray during the lunch break.

A further update will be provided in due course.
— Proteas Men (@ProteasMenCSA)

Knocked him over

Wiaan Mulder sustained a knock to his right middle finger and will undergo an x-ray during the lunch break.
— Ayanda Nyuswa (@atnyuswa)

One and only

Srilanka is the only Asian team to won a test series in South Africa 🔥
— CAPTAIN SUII 🐐 (@VKBA1856)

Nice

Australia vs India

New Zealand vs England

South Africa vs SriLanka

West indies vs Bangladesh

December filled with full on entertainment 😋

Test Cricket ✨❤️
— 𝐆𝐥𝐞𝐧 (@SquareDrive_)

Too good

Sri Lanka vs South Africa - Head to Head in Tests

Played - 31

Sri Lanka Won - 9

South Africa Won - 16

Draw - 6
— mohit kumar (मोहित कुमार) (@sodhamohit90)

Make it happen

WTC FINAL Chance Unna teams:-

1.INDIA

2.AUSTRALIA

3.SRILANKA

4.SOUTH AFRICA

Manam AUS ni 4-0, 4-1, 5-0 tho Kodithe Aus Finals lo undadu

God Make it happen as 5-0, 4-0,Aus rakapothe

Either Srilanka Or SA vasthundii Finals ki may be Or
— Kalyan Cherry (@Kalyancherry98)

No ball Kumara

South Africa would have been reeling with around 60-5, if not for that No-ball from Kumara. Srilanka have started really well in this test match.
— Satish Reddy Jakkidi (@SatishJakkidi)

True

What changes can this contest in between South Africa and Srilanka can bring to WTC points table? Both the teams are near to 55 percentile..winning team might surpass Aussies.
— Rajiv (@PhilanthropicR8)

Fortress