Cometh the hour, cometh Amla

Sunday Times

TELFORD VICE, Cape Town

The last time SA won a test in Sri Lanka, the island’s civil war was nine of its 26 lingering years away from over, the tsunami that would kill more than 200 000 people in 15 countries was more than three years away, and South Africans had elected a president who refused to believe HIV causes AIDS.

The world was a different place on August 2, 2000, when SA snuck to victory by seven runs in Kandy. Almost 14 years on, Sri Lanka is at peace but in the grip of a...