The second Cricket ODI between South Africa and Sri Lanka (2 of 5) at Buffalo Park, East London. The game started at 10:00 SA Time on 14 January 2012.
This was Live Discussion Article where we chatted about the match in progress and where the scores were updated regularly.
The ODI series follows the Test Series where South Africa won by 2 Tests to 1. The first ODI was a day/nighter in Paarl, and was won by SA by 258 runs.
Sri Lanka 236/6 (50 ov)
South Africa 237/5 (48.4 ov)
South Africa won by 5 wickets (with 8 balls remaining).
| Sri Lanka innings (50 overs maximum) | R | M | B | 4s | 6s | SR | ||
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WU Tharanga | c †de Villiers b M Morkel | 66 | 125 | 85 | 6 | 1 | 77.64 |
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TM Dilshan* | run out (du Plessis) | 0 | 8 | 4 | 0 | 0 | 0.00 |
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KC Sangakkara† | c †de Villiers b Tsotsobe | 3 | 36 | 28 | 0 | 0 | 10.71 |
| LD Chandimal | not out | 92 | 179 | 115 | 6 | 0 | 80.00 | |
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DPMD Jayawardene | c Steyn b M Morkel | 19 | 39 | 26 | 1 | 0 | 73.07 |
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KMDN Kulasekara | c Peterson b Tsotsobe | 22 | 12 | 13 | 2 | 2 | 169.23 |
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AD Mathews | c M Morkel b Steyn | 28 | 47 | 29 | 1 | 1 | 96.55 |
| Extras | (lb 1, w 5) | 6 | ||||||
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| Total | (6 wickets; 50 overs; 225 mins) | 236 | (4.72 runs per over) | |||||
| Did not bat CKB Kulasekara, SL Malinga, HMRKB Herath, KTGD Prasad |
| Fall of wickets 1-0 (Dilshan, 1.4 ov), 2-21 (Sangakkara, 9.6 ov), 3-105 (Tharanga, 28.3 ov), 4-140 (Jayawardene, 37.2 ov),5-164 (KMDN Kulasekara, 39.5 ov), 6-236 (Mathews, 49.6 ov) |
| Bowling | O | M | R | W | Econ | |||
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DW Steyn | 9 | 1 | 54 | 1 | 6.00 | ||
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LL Tsotsobe | 10 | 2 | 43 | 2 | 4.30 | ||
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M Morkel | 9 | 1 | 39 | 2 | 4.33 | (3w) | |
| JA Morkel | 6 | 0 | 29 | 0 | 4.83 | |||
| JP Duminy | 6 | 0 | 26 | 0 | 4.33 | (1w) | ||
| RJ Peterson | 10 | 0 | 44 | 0 | 4.40 | (1w) |
| South Africa innings (target: 237 runs from 50 overs) | R | B | 4s | 6s | SR | |||
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GC Smith | c Tharanga b Prasad | 28 | 56 | 2 | 0 | 50.00 | |
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HM Amla | b Prasad | 55 | 58 | 5 | 2 | 94.82 | |
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JH Kallis | c Chandimal b Prasad | 37 | 51 | 3 | 0 | 72.54 | |
| JP Duminy | not out | 66 | 87 | 0 | 1 | 75.86 | ||
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AB de Villiers*† | run out (KMDN Kulasekara) | 17 | 13 | 2 | 0 | 130.76 | |
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F du Plessis | c & b Malinga | 18 | 16 | 2 | 0 | 112.50 | |
| JA Morkel | not out | 12 | 11 | 1 | 0 | 109.09 | ||
| Extras | (lb 3, w 1) | 4 | ||||||
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| Total | (5 wickets; 48.4 overs) | 237 | (4.86 runs per over) | |||||
| Did not bat RJ Peterson, DW Steyn, M Morkel, LL Tsotsobe |
| Fall of wickets 1-76 (Smith, 16.3 ov), 2-94 (Amla, 20.5 ov), 3-152 (Kallis, 35.1 ov), 4-193 (de Villiers, 40.4 ov),5-224 (du Plessis, 46.2 ov) |
| Bowling | O | M | R | W | Econ | |||
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SL Malinga | 10 | 1 | 38 | 1 | 3.80 | ||
| KMDN Kulasekara | 8 | 0 | 47 | 0 | 5.87 | |||
| AD Mathews | 2 | 0 | 13 | 0 | 6.50 | (1w) | ||
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KTGD Prasad | 10 | 0 | 46 | 3 | 4.60 | ||
| TM Dilshan | 8.4 | 0 | 44 | 0 | 5.07 | |||
| CKB Kulasekara | 1 | 0 | 6 | 0 | 6.00 | |||
| HMRKB Herath | 9 | 0 | 40 | 0 | 4.44 |
| Match details |
| Toss South Africa, who chose to field Series South Africa led the 5-match series 2-0 |
| Player of the match tba |
| Umpires BR Doctrove (West Indies) and S George TV umpire NJ Llong (England) Match referee JJ Crowe (New Zealand) Reserve umpire M Erasmus |
| Match notes |
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Smith just couldn’t do it. Playing across the line, skies one to Tharanga off Prasads bowling for 28 off 56 balls. SA 76/1
Amla makes another 50, this time at a run a ball. Anyone would think his wife was about to give birth, he is such a hurry!…. Oh yes, she is!
Amla playing with wonderful, controlled aggression today – pleasure to watch
Amla bowled for 55 off 58 by Prasad. SA 94/2
Here comes GBS’s newly adopted son – Duminy ahead of AB. Can he fulfil the role. Interesting to see that they are prepared to move AB around a bit
Nothing much to report at the moment, only excitement was a review for an LBW for Kallis off Herath, but it was going down leg
114/2 after 26
All gone very quiet out on the pitch now, even the band is struggling to get more than 1 musician playing at a a time!
Kallis 24 off 35, JP 17 off 20 – how many days is this match again? SA 126/2 after 29
Drinks 136/2 after 32
Batting power play taken after drinks and Malinga back into attack
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Not long before this game wins the Plascon paint drying award. Bordering on suicidal boredom at the moment
Hello, oh dear looks like have chosen a bad time to log on with Kallis just out, haven’t been following the game for long but looks like we mat be in for a close one.
Kallis out, a shot of pure frustration saw him hole out to the sweeper on the cover boundary for 37 off 51 balls. Caught Chandimal, bowled Prassad
Need to up the run rate a bit, but that shouldn’t be a problem now that AB is at the crease
@ Bullscot:I don’t think it’ll be to tight, but hell it’s been painful watching this one. Soooo slow!
42@ smallies72:HaHaHa
AB playing all the shots – not all are coming off!!
…. but that one did, reverse sweep for 4
Duminy’s had enough, time to open up with a big six, over the roof and out the park!
47@ Just For Kicks:
Yeah I spoke too soon JFK, looks live AB is upping the tempo, had also looked at the RR of 6.00 at the time which was of the last 5 overs and confused that with the RR that was required run rate still, see they only need just over 4.5 per over now.
52@ Bullscot:Yup, got very slow in the middle there. Good to see JP get to his 50
meant to say looks like not looks live
oh well do have the wee one with me so only paying half attention is my excuse.
54@ Bullscot:Yeah, blame the little ones!
Ab gone, run out for 17 off 13 runs
55@ Just For Kicks:
no not blaming them just me and my inability to multitask properly being a male and all 🙂
Well, he had to give women something, I suppose!
The drudgery is nearly over 15 needed off 28 balls. Faf has been smacking it around a bit. I always wonder though, we do we make such a meal of it when batting second to a low score. We do it every time. It makes for very boring cricket
Cheap wicket, Faf caught and bowled by Malinga for 18 off 16 balls. Looked like a slower ball, and he just chipped it back to the bowler.SA 224/5. 13 required off 22 balls, and Albie strides to the crease
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