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

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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

An update

Knocked him over

One and only

Nice

Too good

Make it happen

No ball Kumara

True

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