The Third Cricket Test between South Africa and Sri Lanka took place at Newlands, Cape Town.  The Test was supposed to run from 3 – 7 January 2012 but finished at about 15:30 on 6 January 2012.

This was the Live Discussion Article where we chatted about the match in progress and where the scores were updated regularly.

Sri Lanka won the toss and elected to field, sending South Africa in to bat. South Africa won comfortably, by 10 wickets on Day 4 of the Test.

 

South Africa:

  • First Innings: 580 / 4 declared (139 overs)
  • Second Innings: 2 / 0 (o.0 overs)

Sri Lanka:

  • First Innings: 239 all out (73.5 overs)
  • Second Innings: 220 / 4 (82 overs)

 

South Africa won by 10 wickets.

South Africa 1st innings

R M B 4s 6s SR
View dismissal GC Smith* b Prasad 16 21 15 3 0 106.66
View dismissal AN Petersen c Dilshan b Welegedara 109 276 188 13 1 57.97
View dismissal HM Amla lbw b Prasad 16 43 32 3 0 50.00
View dismissal JH Kallis c Mathews b Herath 224 434 325 31 1 68.92
AB de Villiers not out 160 303 205 19 2 78.04
JA Rudolph not out 51 79 71 6 0 71.83
Extras (lb 1, w 1, nb 2) 4
Total (4 wickets dec; 139 overs; 576 mins) 580 (4.17 runs per over)
Did not bat MV Boucher†, DW Steyn, M Morkel, Imran Tahir, VD Philander
Fall of wickets 1-25 (Smith, 4.1 ov), 2-56 (Amla, 12.6 ov), 3-261 (Petersen, 62.2 ov), 4-453 (Kallis, 118.3 ov)
Bowling O M R W Econ
View wicket UWMBCA Welegedara 29 7 107 1 3.68 (2nb, 1w)
NLTC Perera 22 1 131 0 5.95
View wickets KTGD Prasad 30 2 154 2 5.13
AD Mathews 12 0 47 0 3.91
View wicket HMRKB Herath 42 4 108 1 2.57
TM Dilshan 4 0 32 0 8.00

Sri Lanka 1st innings

R M B 4s 6s SR
View dismissal HDRL Thirimanne b Morkel 23 62 52 4 0 44.23
View dismissal TM Dilshan* c Smith b Imran Tahir 78 126 79 12 0 98.73
View dismissal KC Sangakkara c Amla b Steyn 35 110 75 6 0 46.66
View dismissal DPMD Jayawardene c Kallis b Steyn 30 130 81 3 0 37.03
View dismissal TT Samaraweera c Kallis b Philander 11 68 61 0 0 18.03
View dismissal AD Mathews c †Boucher b Steyn 1 28 18 0 0 5.55
View dismissal LD Chandimal† c †Boucher b Morkel 35 60 45 4 0 77.77
View dismissal NLTC Perera b Imran Tahir 5 20 10 1 0 50.00
View dismissal HMRKB Herath lbw b Philander 1 6 7 0 0 14.28
View dismissal KTGD Prasad c Petersen b Philander 9 14 16 0 1 56.25
UWMBCA Welegedara not out 0 8 1 0 0 0.00
Extras (b 6, lb 3, nb 2) 11
Total (all out; 73.5 overs; 317 mins) 239 (3.23 runs per over)
Fall of wickets 1-70 (Thirimanne, 14.4 ov), 2-126 (Dilshan, 28.3 ov), 3-149 (Sangakkara, 39.3 ov), 4-184 (Samaraweera, 55.2 ov), 5-189 (Jayawardene, 59.3 ov), 6-194 (Mathews, 61.5 ov), 7-219 (Perera, 66.5 ov), 8-220 (Herath, 67.6 ov), 9-236 (Prasad, 71.6 ov), 10-239 (Chandimal, 73.5 ov)
Bowling O M R W Econ
View wickets DW Steyn 20 5 56 3 2.80 (1nb)
View wickets VD Philander 19 7 46 3 2.42
View wickets M Morkel 13.5 2 74 2 5.34 (1nb)
View wickets Imran Tahir 21 1 54 2 2.57

Sri Lanka 2nd innings (following on)

R M B 4s 6s SR
View dismissal HDRL Thirimanne c Amla b Kallis 30 123 100 2 0 30.00
View dismissal TM Dilshan* c †Boucher b Philander 5 15 7 1 0 71.42
View dismissal KC Sangakkara c Kallis b Imran Tahir 34 125 89 4 0 38.20
View dismissal DPMD Jayawardene c Kallis b Morkel 12 37 21 0 1 57.14
TT Samaraweera not out 115 325 215 14 0 53.48
View dismissal AD Mathews lbw b Philander 63 200 124 7 0 50.80
View dismissal LD Chandimal† c Kallis b Philander 1 18 13 0 0 7.69
View dismissal NLTC Perera c Morkel b Imran Tahir 30 52 45 4 0 66.66
View dismissal HMRKB Herath c & b Kallis 0 7 5 0 0 0.00
View dismissal KTGD Prasad st †Boucher b Imran Tahir 16 21 22 3 0 72.72
View dismissal UWMBCA Welegedara b Kallis 14 6 6 2 1 233.33
Extras (b 1, lb 15, w 6) 22
Total (all out; 107.5 overs; 466 mins) 342 (3.17 runs per over)
Fall of wickets 1-12 (Dilshan, 3.5 ov), 2-79 (Thirimanne, 29.6 ov), 3-83 (Sangakkara, 34.4 ov), 4-98 (Jayawardene, 38.3 ov), 5-240 (Mathews, 85.1 ov), 6-248 (Chandimal, 89.2 ov), 7-304 (Perera, 100.2 ov), 8-306 (Herath, 101.4 ov), 9-327 (Prasad, 106.4 ov), 10-342 (Welegedara, 107.5 ov)
Bowling O M R W Econ
DW Steyn 20 3 56 0 2.80 (1w)
View wickets VD Philander 20 4 54 3 2.70
View wicket M Morkel 19 4 68 1 3.57
View wickets Imran Tahir 32 7 106 3 3.31
View wickets JH Kallis 14.5 2 35 3 2.35 (1w)
GC Smith 2 0 7 0 3.50

South Africa 2nd innings (target: 2 runs)

R B 4s 6s SR
AN Petersen not out 1 1 0 0 100.00
GC Smith* not out 0 0 0 0
Extras (nb 1) 1
Total (0 wickets; 0 overs) 2
Did not bat HM Amla, JH Kallis, AB de Villiers, JA Rudolph, MV Boucher†, DW Steyn, M Morkel, Imran Tahir, VD Philander
Bowling O M R W Econ
KTGD Prasad 0 0 2 0 (1nb)

Match details

Toss Sri Lanka, who chose to field
Player of the match tba
Umpires RA Kettleborough (England) and RJ Tucker (Australia)
TV umpire SJ Davis (Australia)
Match referee BC Broad (England)
Reserve umpire JD Cloete
Close of play
– day 1 – South Africa 1st innings 347/3 (JH Kallis 159*, AB de Villiers 45*, 90 ov)
– day 2 – Sri Lanka 1st innings 149/2 (KC Sangakkara 35*, DPMD Jayawardene 7*, 39 ov)
– day 3 – Sri Lanka 2nd innings 138/4 (TT Samaraweera 19*, AD Mathews 28*, 53 ov)

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