South Africa vs Sri Lanka 2017, 2nd ODI - 5 Talking Points

#1 Sri Lankan batting fails to impress yet again

Mendis got a start but could not build on it

Sri Lanka have put together some poor performances with the bat in this tour of the Rainbow Nation. In the absence of Mathews, they have lacked a leader around which their batting could find their feet.

Chandimal, Kusal Mendis and Dhananjaya de Silva are their most dependable players in the middle order. Although two of them got starts, both failed to carry on with the bat, falling to ill-advised shots.

Sri Lanka also seemed to be a batsman short with a string of average all-rounders in Gunaratne, Chaturanga de Silva and Sachith Pathirana forming the lower middle order. They will have to find some serious runs from their batsmen going forward to avoid another loss, which would seal the fate of the series.