Player of the Match
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Best performances - Batsmen

KC Sangakkara
KC Sangakkara
169(137) 18x4 - 6x6
Control %86%
  • Productive Shot
  • on side drive on front foot
  • 38 runs
  • 2x4 - 2x6
22 8 8 36 36 37 3 19
WU Tharanga
WU Tharanga
43(64) 7x4 - 0x6
Control %77%
  • Productive Shot
  • off side drive on front foot
  • 17 runs
  • 3x4 - 0x6
4 5 14 3 3 2 0 12

Best performances - Bowlers

HMRKB Herath
HMRKB Herath
O8.5
M1
R25
W3
Eco2.83
RHB
OFFLEG
  • FTFULL TOSS
  • YYORKER
  • FFULL LENGTH
  • GGOOD LENGTH
  • SGSHORT OF GOOD LENGTH
  • SSHORT LENGTH
LHB
LEGOFF
NLTC Perera
NLTC Perera
O7
M0
R31
W3
Eco4.42
RHB
OFFLEG
  • FTFULL TOSS
  • YYORKER
  • FFULL LENGTH
  • GGOOD LENGTH
  • SGSHORT OF GOOD LENGTH
  • SSHORT LENGTH
LHB
LEGOFF

Match Details

Toss

South Africa , elected to field first

Player Of The Match

Series result

Sri Lanka led the 5-match series 1-0

Match number

Season

Hours of play (local time)

14.30 start, First Session 14.30-18.00, Interval 18.00-18.45, Second Session 18.45-22.15

Match days

20 July 2013 - day/night match (50-over match)

TV Umpires

Reserve Umpire

Match Referee

Scorer: S Balasubramanian | Commentator: Abhishek Purohit

That does it for this game. Abhishek Purohit signing off. Cheers

Chandimal starts with a huge win on captaincy debut. Chandimal: "This is my first game, good to start on winning note. Credit to the batsmen first of all. Sanga and Mahela are wily old foxes, they know how to do it. We learn lots from Sanga. I have three former captains, they give lot of advice to me on the field." When asked if he wasn't really tested as a captain in this game, he says he did demote himself down the order!

AB de Villiers: "Its not the end of the series, I know my boys will fight back. Not a lot of positives, but we can only improve. It is mentally hard to accept. But we will fight back. [Our record in SA] is something we are aware of, but we would like to win the series. We missed Hash [Amla], he is one of our class players. We were way below par but I know what the players are capable of, the second game is on the same field, we know the conditions quite well now."

Kumar Sangakkara is the Man of the Match. Sangakkara: "We had a bit of luck to start. Upul batted well. When he got out Mahela came in and raised the tempo, he had nearly caught up with me when he got out. It then became a bit easier. It was a bit two-paced, it was about facing enough deliveries and get going, I took 34 overs to get going but I stuck in there. Morkel bowled good spells, it was about absorbing that and targetting the others."

Full-blown demolition night in Colombo. Sangakkara made 169, South Africa responded with 140. The ball was coming on quite nicely, but no South Africa batsman was prepared to hang around long enough to take advantage. Ingram and Duminy got good deliveries, the others conspired in their own dismissals. No one apart from Sangakkara on either side made more than 43. What an assault that was from Sanga, was so sudden and complete it totally shocked South Africa

Sumith: "Glad that Thisara Perera gave a good reply to the Sri Lankan selectors."

jjazeel: "To all South africans, I can understand your feelings, this is exactly how we felt after the 1st ODI in south africa, where our team got all out for 43 runs"

31.5
W
Herath to Phangiso, OUT, and that shall do it, Phangiso jumps out and heaves at the Colombo night air, the flighted delivery spins past, Sanga collects, waits to see if Phangiso is attempting a return, and on seeing he isn't, politely removes a bail to end the fun

AM Phangiso st †Sangakkara b Herath 0 (7m 13b 0x4 0x6) SR: 0.00

31.4
0
Herath to Phangiso, no run, flatter, he is forward to block
31.3
0
Herath to Phangiso, no run, gets forward to block a tossed up ball
31.2
0
Herath to Phangiso, no run, defends a tossed up ball
31.1
1
Herath to Morris, 1 run, drives an angled full delivery to long on

Chris: "So Sangakara has beaten South African XI. Go figure !!!"

END OF OVER:
31 | 1 Run | SA: 139/9 (182 runs required from 19 overs, RR: 4.48, RRR: 9.57)

  • Aaron Phangiso0 (9b)
  • Chris Morris8 (16b)
  • Thisara Perera7-0-31-3
  • Rangana Herath8-1-24-2

Michael: "To me, it seems like the Proteas are like a jersey with a loose thread. Instead of taking the time to cut the loose thread off, restoring the jersey to its former glory, the selectors, CSA, whoever is just yanking at the thread, just making it worse and unraveling it further. I think it's time that SA take a little time and just rebuild."

30.6
0
Perera to Phangiso, no run, plays out a short of a length ball to the off side

South Africa tour of Sri Lanka 2013 News

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  • Faf better than AB, but no third option

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  • Dilshan keeps faith in young batsmen

    Sri Lanka's misfiring middle order has been the cause of most concern in the 2-1 Twenty20 series loss to South Africa, but Tuesday's Man of the match Tillakaratne Dilshan has said the youngsters' failures do not necessarily bode ill for the team's future

  • Dilshan powers Sri Lanka to consolation win

    Sri Lanka's batsmen found fluency for the first time in the Twenty20 series, as the hosts rode a furious start and a fast finish to a conciliatory six-wicket win in Hambantota

South Africa 2nd innings Partnerships

WktRunsPlayers
1st0AN PetersenCA Ingram
2nd29AN PetersenJP Duminy
3rd44AN PetersenAB de Villiers
4th2AN PetersenF du Plessis
5th7F du PlessisDA Miller
6th21RJ PetersonDA Miller
7th16RJ PetersonR McLaren
8th19RJ PetersonCH Morris
9th0M MorkelCH Morris
10th2AM PhangisoCH Morris