SA not in a spin over tweakers going nowhere slowly

Times Media

TELFORD VICE, Galle

Minutes after SA completed their victory over Sri Lanka in the first test in Galle on Sunday, the parched pitch was given what it had cried out for for the best part of a week: water.

Plumes of the wet stuff arched through the air from the sprinklers and seemed to disappear straight into the strip of bone-coloured earth that groundstaff had denied a drop for the past five days.

Their obsession with keeping the pitch as dry as the Karoo included insulating the surfa...