Sri Lanka in South Africa ODI Series – 1st ODI
South Africa v Sri Lanka
South Africa won by 258 runs
ODI no. 3225 | 2011/12 season
Played at Boland Park, Paarl
11 January 2012 – day/night match (50-over match)
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South Africa v Sri Lanka: first ODI scorecard
Follow live ball-by-ball commentary of the first one day international at Boland Bank Park, Paarl.
South Africa v Sri Lanka
1st ODI – Boland Bank Park, Paarl
South Africa won the toss and elected to bat.
PAARL: (South Africa won toss): South Africa beat Sri Lanka by 258 runs.
South Africa Innings – 301-8 (Overs 50.0)
Sri Lanka Innings – 43 all out (Overs 20.1)
When asian teams travel abroad, few utterly poor batting performances are expected. So far on this tour of South Africa, Sri Lankans haven’t met their nightmare but today they did, folding up to their lowest total in one day cricket ever, conceding a 258 run defeat which is now the new second largest defeat in ODI..
To start with, it was a quite affair as Lankan seamers kept the pressure upto home team batsmen but Hashim Amla and Jacques Kallis managed to raise a 144 run stand for the second wicket, setting the platform for AB de Villiers to come and launch. AB’s quickfire half century accelerated the innings and then Albie Morkel, playing his first game for country after a while, hit couple of sixes to propel home team past 300 run mark.
Sri Lankan chase began on a sorry note, losing both openers for a duck, inside first two overs. Dinesh Chandimal in 4th over, Kumar Sangakkara & Angelo Mathews in 5th over, Mahela Jayawardene in 8th over and Nuwan Kulasekara in 11th, visitors slipped to 24 for 7 wickets in no time with all wickets going to new ball bowlers Morne Morkel and Lonwabo Tsotsobe.
Young allrounder Kosala Kulasekara was the only batsman to cross double figure mark as Dale Steyn and Robin Peterson wrapped up innings a ball after 20th over.
