Argentina and Australia will both be keen to end this year’s Rugby Championship in style when the southern hemisphere tournament breaks new ground at Twickenham on Saturday, live on Sky Sports 3 HD from 6.30pm.
It will be the first time a Rugby Championship fixture has been staged in the northern hemisphere, with organisers hoping to tap into the two countries’ expatriate following in London in the hope of a big crowd.
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Sri Lanka may have the beginnings of a future-proof Test team, but in the shorter formats, the juggernaut that is their transition rolls relentlessly on. So long has it reigned now, it probably deserves to be capitalised: Transition. Perhaps in years to come, Sri Lankan historians will see fit to add a prefix, and it will become “The Great Transition”. Whatever the case, it continues to guzzle up players and spit out empty husks of international careers, chewing up those husks and spitting them up even emptier, fans wailing by the roadside in rags, a terrible limited-overs drought afflicting their once-lush land.
Back together in this current squad are players like Chamara Kapugedara, Sachithra Senanayake and Thisara Perera. Many of whom had been part of Sri Lanka’s T20 boom years, from 2009-2014, but their presence does not seem a guarantee the boom years will come again. The more experienced hands are as much on trial as the likes of Kasun Rajitha or Dasun Shanaka. A big, limited-overs breakthrough continues to evade them.
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