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, England have suffered their worst defeat since the appointment of head coach Brendan McCallum to their test side in 2022. They were thrashed by Sri Lanka by eight wickets in the final test at the oval. Putnam Nissanka scored a century as the tourists reached their target of 219 runs. Stand in captain Olypope tells passports news, the better team won. 'Today, I think day three, we shot ourselves on the foot a little bit, we won our best and credit to Sri Lanka, I think they bold really well and then the weightless anchor played there was high class, so credit to them they deserve to win this test.' England did still win the series 2-1 though, sticking with cricket news, the proteas head to the UAE to take on Afghanistan and Ireland, they face Afghanistan in an ODI series before taking on the Irish in both T20s and ODI's, coach Rob Walters using the tour to test his depth. 'We can't rely on one group of players to win games for South Africa and so the players that you see in the squad are either high potential players that believe you can make big contributions for South Africa moving forward all the next best players in the country, so the only way to figure out is if that good enough is to expose them to good international competition.' After that first ODI against Afghanistan gets out and away in the 18th of September, then we're going to finish with the rugby news. The spring box will split their squad for their final two rugby championship matches, next Saturday the box play Argentina in Santiago del Estero, Russia-Rasmus will leave a large portion of his squad in South Africa for the return match against Los Pumas in Imbombella the following week. The spring box, they require just one point from their final two matches to win the rugby championship and it will be a first rugby championship win since 2019. That's all from me for today for the East Coast Radio Sport Team, I'm Nick Tatham.