Sri-Lanka and South Africa battle each other in the 2nd 5-Day Cricket Test at Colombo in Sri-Lanka from 24 to 28 July 2014. Play starts early for SA viewers, as Sri-Lanka is a few hours ahead of South Africa in the time zones, so it is daly from about 06:00 SA Time every day.
South Africa won the 1st Test and lead the Test Series by 1 / 0 after also taking the ODI Series by 2 – 1, their first ever ODI Series win in Sri-Lanka.
The score cards will be updated at regular intervals here on Rugby-Talk.
Sri-Lanka won the toss and elected to bat.
Sri-Lanka started Day 1 well and at the Close of play on Day 1 were on 305 / 5 after 86 Overs.
It was a slow Day initially on Day 2, both from bat and ball, but the Day started heating up after about 30 Overs done for the Day. Sri-Lanka were all out for 421 in their 1st Innings. South Africa started terribly in their 1st Innings, losing 2 wickets with just 13 on the board. South Africa ended with 98 / after 52 Overs at Stumps, Day 2.
On Day 3 the South African wickets kept falling at regular intervals, SA reaching 234 / 7 after 111 Overs at Tea of Day 3 and then South Africa were eventually all out for 282 from 134.5 Overs, trailing by 139 rins at the Innings break.
Sri-Lanka started their 2nd Innings and at Stumps on Day 3 were 11 / 0 after 5 Overs.
On Day 4 Sri Lanka kept the pressure on and eventually declared at 229 / 8 after 53.4 Overs, leaving South Africa to chase 369 runs for a win. At Stumps, Day 4 South Africa was on 38 / 1 after 17 Overs, still 331 shy of a win with 9 wickets still in tact.
South Africa were in to bat the whole of Day 5, but there was no attempt to chase a win, it was block, block, block to save the Test! After 102.5 Overs bowled it was 148 / 8, which was then still 221 runs short of the win, with 2 wickets in hand. Rain delayed the Final Session of play on Day 5 for a while, but play resumed again.
South Africa managed to stand their ground, eecking out a DRAW, ending with 159 / 8 after 111 Overs. The result, or non-result, means South Africa moves up to TOP Test spot in the world Cricket Test rankings.
Sri-Lanka:
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First Innings – 421 (121.4 Overs)
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Second Innings – 229 / 8 Declared (53.4 Overs)
South Africa:
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First Innings – 282 (134.5 Overs)
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Second Innings – 159 / 8 (111 Overs)
Match drawn
| Sri Lanka 1st innings | R | M | B | 4s | 6s | SR | ||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| WU Tharanga | c †de Kock b Steyn | 11 | 21 | 16 | 2 | 0 | 68.75 | |
| JK Silva | c de Villiers b Duminy | 44 | 116 | 73 | 7 | 0 | 60.27 | |
| KC Sangakkara | c Imran Tahir b Steyn | 0 | 2 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0.00 | |
| DPMD Jayawardene | run out (Petersen) | 165 | 456 | 284 | 17 | 1 | 58.09 | |
| AD Mathews* | c †de Kock b Duminy | 63 | 167 | 135 | 6 | 0 | 46.66 | |
| KDK Vithanage | c de Villiers b Morkel | 13 | 59 | 38 | 1 | 1 | 34.21 | |
| N Dickwella† | run out (†de Kock) | 72 | 195 | 116 | 8 | 1 | 62.06 | |
| MDK Perera | c Amla b Imran Tahir | 12 | 49 | 41 | 0 | 1 | 29.26 | |
| HMRKB Herath | not out | 7 | 29 | 14 | 1 | 0 | 50.00 | |
| BAW Mendis | c †de Kock b Philander | 2 | 14 | 11 | 0 | 0 | 18.18 | |
| RAS Lakmal | c †de Kock b Philander | 4 | 6 | 4 | 1 | 0 | 100.00 | |
| Extras | (b 11, lb 14, nb 3) | 28 | ||||||
| Total | (all out; 121.4 overs; 562 mins) | 421 | (3.46 runs per over) | |||||
Fall of wickets: 1-16 (Tharanga, 4.5 ov), 2-16 (Sangakkara, 4.6 ov), 3-115 (Silva, 25.2 ov), 4-246 (Mathews, 64.5 ov), 5-285 (Vithanage, 77.2 ov), 6-385 (Jayawardene, 105.2 ov), 7-404 (Perera, 116.4 ov), 8-409 (Dickwella, 117.2 ov), 9-415 (Mendis, 119.6 ov), 10-421 (Lakmal, 121.4 ov)
| Bowling | O | M | R | W | Econ | ||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| DW Steyn | 22 | 5 | 69 | 2 | 3.13 | ||
| VD Philander | 21.4 | 7 | 52 | 2 | 2.40 | (1nb) | |
| M Morkel | 26 | 6 | 69 | 1 | 2.65 | (1nb) | |
| Imran Tahir | 33 | 4 | 121 | 1 | 3.66 | ||
| JP Duminy | 18 | 1 | 80 | 2 | 4.44 | (1nb) | |
| D Elgar | 1 | 0 | 5 | 0 | 5.00 |
| South Africa 1st innings | R | M | B | 4s | 6s | SR | ||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| AN Petersen | c & b Herath | 2 | 7 | 10 | 0 | 0 | 20.00 | |
| D Elgar | c Silva b Perera | 1 | 35 | 22 | 0 | 0 | 4.54 | |
| F du Plessis | c †Dickwella b Lakmal | 36 | 130 | 109 | 3 | 1 | 33.02 | |
| HM Amla* | not out | 139 | 486 | 382 | 12 | 0 | 36.38 | |
| AB de Villiers | lbw b Perera | 37 | 127 | 99 | 5 | 0 | 37.37 | |
| Q de Kock† | b Perera | 0 | 2 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 0.00 | |
| JP Duminy | st †Dickwella b Herath | 3 | 68 | 58 | 0 | 0 | 5.17 | |
| VD Philander | b Perera | 9 | 38 | 29 | 0 | 0 | 31.03 | |
| DW Steyn | c Sangakkara b Herath | 30 | 75 | 71 | 2 | 2 | 42.25 | |
| Imran Tahir | c Tharanga b Herath | 15 | 63 | 32 | 2 | 0 | 46.87 | |
| M Morkel | c Silva b Perera | 0 | 5 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0.00 | |
| Extras | (lb 3, w 1, nb 6) | 10 | ||||||
| Total | (all out; 134.5 overs; 522 mins) | 282 | (2.09 runs per over) | |||||
Fall of wickets: 1-3 (Petersen, 1.5 ov), 2-13 (Elgar, 8.3 ov), 3-71 (du Plessis, 38.2 ov), 4-150 (de Villiers, 68.4 ov), 5-150 (de Kock, 68.6 ov), 6-175 (Duminy, 89.4 ov), 7-204 (Philander, 98.2 ov), 8-251 (Steyn, 117.5 ov), 9-279 (Imran Tahir, 133.6 ov), 10-282 (Morkel, 134.5 ov)
| Bowling | O | M | R | W | Econ | ||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| RAS Lakmal | 23 | 7 | 54 | 1 | 2.34 | (4nb, 1w) | |
| HMRKB Herath | 45 | 17 | 71 | 4 | 1.57 | ||
| MDK Perera | 41.5 | 11 | 69 | 5 | 1.64 | ||
| BAW Mendis | 21 | 1 | 68 | 0 | 3.23 | (2nb) | |
| KDK Vithanage | 4 | 0 | 17 | 0 | 4.25 |
| Sri Lanka 2nd innings | R | M | B | 4s | 6s | SR | ||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| WU Tharanga | c †de Kock b Steyn | 30 | 45 | 40 | 4 | 0 | 75.00 | |
| JK Silva | c Philander b Morkel | 26 | 93 | 57 | 5 | 0 | 45.61 | |
| KC Sangakkara | c †de Kock b Morkel | 72 | 134 | 90 | 8 | 0 | 80.00 | |
| DPMD Jayawardene | c Elgar b Imran Tahir | 0 | 10 | 6 | 0 | 0 | 0.00 | |
| AD Mathews* | not out | 63 | 132 | 83 | 2 | 2 | 75.90 | |
| KDK Vithanage | c du Plessis b Morkel | 7 | 9 | 8 | 1 | 0 | 87.50 | |
| N Dickwella† | c de Villiers b Steyn | 16 | 26 | 21 | 2 | 0 | 76.19 | |
| MDK Perera | b Imran Tahir | 7 | 8 | 7 | 1 | 0 | 100.00 | |
| HMRKB Herath | c de Villiers b Morkel | 4 | 14 | 11 | 0 | 0 | 36.36 | |
| Extras | (b 1, lb 2, nb 1) | 4 | ||||||
| Total | (8 wickets dec; 53.4 overs; 242 mins) | 229 | (4.26 runs per over) | |||||
Did not bat: RAS Lakmal, BAW Mendis
Fall of wickets: 1-38 (Tharanga, 10.2 ov), 2-82 (Silva, 21.1 ov), 3-83 (Jayawardene, 22.4 ov), 4-164 (Sangakkara, 39.6 ov), 5-174 (Vithanage, 41.6 ov), 6-203 (Dickwella, 47.6 ov), 7-214 (Perera, 50.2 ov), 8-229 (Herath, 53.4 ov)
| Bowling | O | M | R | W | Econ | ||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| DW Steyn | 13 | 1 | 59 | 2 | 4.53 | ||
| VD Philander | 11 | 3 | 35 | 0 | 3.18 | ||
| Imran Tahir | 18 | 0 | 76 | 2 | 4.22 | (1nb) | |
| M Morkel | 9.4 | 1 | 45 | 4 | 4.65 | ||
| D Elgar | 1 | 0 | 9 | 0 | 9.00 | ||
| JP Duminy | 1 | 0 | 2 | 0 | 2.00 |
| South Africa 2nd innings (target: 369 runs) | R | B | 4s | 6s | SR | ||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| AN Petersen | c Vithanage b Herath | 0 | 25 | 0 | 0 | 0.00 | |
| D Elgar | b Perera | 13 | 65 | 1 | 0 | 20.00 | |
| Q de Kock† | c Vithanage b Herath | 37 | 92 | 1 | 0 | 40.21 | |
| HM Amla* | c Jayawardene b Perera | 25 | 159 | 4 | 0 | 15.72 | |
| AB de Villiers | b Herath | 12 | 67 | 1 | 0 | 17.91 | |
| F du Plessis | c Jayawardene b Herath | 10 | 49 | 2 | 0 | 20.40 | |
| JP Duminy | lbw b Perera | 3 | 65 | 0 | 0 | 4.61 | |
| VD Philander | not out | 27 | 98 | 5 | 0 | 27.55 | |
| DW Steyn | c †Dickwella b Herath | 6 | 28 | 1 | 0 | 21.42 | |
| Imran Tahir | not out | 4 | 21 | 1 | 0 | 19.04 | |
| Extras | (b 5, lb 14, nb 3) | 22 | |||||
| Total | (8 wickets; 111 overs) | 159 | (1.43 runs per over) | ||||
Did not bat: M Morkel
Fall of wickets: 1-4 (Petersen, 8.1 ov), 2-47 (Elgar, 21.3 ov), 3-68 (de Kock, 38.4 ov), 4-93 (de Villiers, 63.1 ov), 5-105 (Amla, 74.1 ov), 6-110 (du Plessis, 78.4 ov), 7-130 (Duminy, 93.4 ov), 8-148 (Steyn, 102.5 ov)
| Bowling | O | M | R | W | Econ | ||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| HMRKB Herath | 45 | 30 | 40 | 5 | 0.88 | ||
| MDK Perera | 44 | 24 | 60 | 3 | 1.36 | ||
| BAW Mendis | 13 | 8 | 17 | 0 | 1.30 | ||
| RAS Lakmal | 4 | 1 | 11 | 0 | 2.75 | (3nb) | |
| KDK Vithanage | 5 | 1 | 12 | 0 | 2.40 |
Match details
Series – South Africa won the 2-match series 1-0
Player of the match – tba
TV umpire – BF Bowden (New Zealand)
Match referee – JJ Crowe (New Zealand)
Reserve umpire – REJ Martinesz
- – day 1 – Sri Lanka 1st innings 305/5 (DPMD Jayawardene 140*, N Dickwella 12*, 86 ov)
- – day 2 – South Africa 1st innings 98/3 (HM Amla 46*, AB de Villiers 11*, 52 ov)
- – day 3 – Sri Lanka 2nd innings 11/0 (WU Tharanga 6*, JK Silva 5*, 5 ov)
- – day 4 – South Africa 2nd innings 38/1 (D Elgar 13*, Q de Kock 21*, 17 ov)
In other top class cricketing news, Afghanistan are playing Zimbabwe in a ODI.
Current score:
Afghanistan 259 (49.1 ov)
Zimbabwe 27/2 (9.4 ov)
So, Sri-Lanka ends Day 1 on 305 / 5 after 86 Overs
And another plane missing, Air Algeria, went down in a thunderstorm over Mali apparently…the 2nd one this week!
Taiwanese airliner also perished during a storm over the China Sea.
3 @ Pietman:
Who in their right mind operates ANY AIRCRAFT in a Cyclone?
Taiwanese missing a trick?
We need to get these guys out for not more than 420.
The game is setup more or less the same as the one last week. The difference being that we batted 1st then. Now we can see how our batsman respond when they are faced with a big 1st innings score by the opposition.
GO Amla and the boys…yes, even Tahir and his lollys.
Sri-Lanka 415 / 9 after a looooong morning in Colombo!
120 Overs bowled
Sri Lanka might as well open with Mendis… This is not going to be easy!
Need some rain.
54 overs left in the day… Herath will bowl at least 20 of them.
Sri-Lanka out for 421 after 121.4 Overs
Proteas started batting and Alviro Petersen perished on 3 / 1… after just 1.5 Overs
Ons het so groot kak vandag :/
Going to be incredibly difficult for the Proteas to win this one
Ave of 36 for A peterson – is that good enough after 32 matches? Somehow, he has never instilled confidence in me as an opener. Don’t know why.
Ball not doing too much for Herath, Faf showing how to nullify his spin. Good, confident 6
Fark, Elgar not reading it as well as Faf. Ball didn’t even do much. SA in heaps of trouble if they don’t learn to play spin very quickly. SA 13/2 Both wickets to spin – ominous.
I’ll be surprised if we see another fast ball from the Lankans today. Boys struggling with this mystical spin
….and another spinner into the attack
Flok, SA already 2 wickets down…
Dean Elgar also gone cheaply.
SA now 18 / 2 after 13 Overs
That’s strange, didn’t we hear what a “batsman friendly” pitch this is?
Theres’s that much spin from the Lankans today, I think Jake the Snake may look to employing them to do all his script writing for him
18 @ nortierd:Ball not doing much yet, so in theory, pitch should still err in favour of batsmen, its just that SA players heads get in a spin when spin comes out – especially early on!
So far Faf has been playing each ball on merit. for the rest, they’ve looked like ducks dabbling at bits of bread thrown into a pond by kids at the local animal petting farm.
@ Just For Kicks:
We have huge problems.
421 in the first innings, means we are on the back foot straight away, no we can’t win and then straight into defensive mindset
@ nortierd:
Don’t forget the Tea Farmers were 16/2 on day1.
Still a long way to go.
@ Scrumdown:
It is, but too long if you decide to bat just for time
Looking a bit better now at 60 / 2 after 34.4 overs
Faf gone for 36.
Caught down the leg side.
71/3 after 38.2 overs
Stumps Day 2:
South Africa 98 / 3 after 52 Overs, still 323 runs behind.
@ grootblousmile:
Batting at less than 2 runs an over, gave up before they started.
No way they will be able to survive 3 more days just trying to play for time
nortierd wrote:
You cant play spin negatively, someone must be brave and hit a good fast 50 plus
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