South Africa vs Sri Lanka 2nd Test at Cape Town, 02 Jan, 2017

Toss: Sri Lanka,who chose to bowl first
South Africa 392/10 (116)  &  224/7 (51.5)
Sri Lanka 110/10 (43)  &  224/10 (62)
South Africa won by 282 runs
Man of the Match: Kagiso Rabada
  • HMRKB Herath 35 * (45)

Over 23.1 RAS Lakmal bowls a good length delivery to Faf du Plessis, no runs, comes on to the front foot and blocks it down the pitch.

Over 23.2 RAS Lakmal bowls a good length delivery to Faf du Plessis, no runs, opens the face of the bat a touch on the defence and guides it to the man at gully.

Over 24.1 Lahiru Kumara bowls a good length delivery to Faf du Plessis, no runs, gets forward and defends it back to the bowler.

Over 24.2 Lahiru Kumara bowls a back of length delivery to Faf du Plessis, no runs, goes on to the back foot and defends it to the on-side.

Over 24.3 Lahiru Kumara bowls a back of length delivery to Faf du Plessis, no runs, gets across and lets that go.

Over 24.4 Lahiru Kumara bowls a good length delivery to Faf du Plessis, 1 run, presses forward in the block, gets an inside edge that rolls through backward of square on the on-side, helps him get off the mark.

Over 25.1 RAS Lakmal bowls a good length delivery to Faf du Plessis, 1 run, gets forward and pushes it away on the on-side.

Over 25.6 RAS Lakmal bowls a good length delivery to Faf du Plessis, 1 run, gets forward and pushes it through extra-cover and picks up another single.

Over 26.1 Lahiru Kumara bowls it short of length to Faf du Plessis, no runs, gets on top of the bounce and punches it towards cover.

Over 26.2 Lahiru Kumara bowls a good length delivery to Faf du Plessis, no runs, goes on to the back foot and let it go through to the keeper.

Over 26.3 Lahiru Kumara bowls a pitched up delivery to Faf du Plessis, Boundary! Gets across the line and clips it down to fine-leg fence for four.

Over 26.4 Lahiru Kumara bowls a pitched up delivery to Faf du Plessis, no runs, gets forward and punches it straight to the man at cover.

Over 26.5 Lahiru Kumara bowls a good length delivery to Faf du Plessis, no runs, gets forward and left alone outside off through to the keeper.

Over 26.6 Lahiru Kumara bowls a good length delivery to Faf du Plessis, no runs, gets forward and watches it along go through to the keeper.

Over 27.3 RAS Lakmal bowls a pitched up delivery to Faf du Plessis, no runs, gets forward and pushes it back to the bowler.

Over 27.4 RAS Lakmal bowls a good length delivery to Faf du Plessis, no runs, open the face of the bat and defends it towards gully.

Over 27.5 RAS Lakmal bowls a good length delivery to Faf du Plessis, no runs, stays on the front foot and happy to let it go through to the keeper.

Over 27.6 RAS Lakmal bowls a good length delivery to Faf du Plessis, no runs, pushing forward and then combats it with a straightish bat.

Over 28.2 Lahiru Kumara bowls a good length delivery to Faf du Plessis, no runs, goes on to the back foot and let it go outside off through to the keeper.

Over 28.3 Lahiru Kumara bowls a good length delivery to Faf du Plessis, no runs, stays his crease, opens his stance a bit and pushes it away into the off-side.

Over 28.4 Lahiru Kumara bowls a good length delivery to Faf du Plessis, 1 run, gets forward and rolls his wrist over the pull to knock it down to deep backward square.

Over 29.1 RAS Lakmal bowls a good length delivery to Faf du Plessis, no runs, comes on to the front foot and let it go outside off through to the keeper.

Over 29.2 RAS Lakmal bowls a good length delivery to Faf du Plessis, no runs, stays back, lifts his bat and lets that short of length delivery go alone to the keeper.

Over 29.3 RAS Lakmal bowls a good length delivery to Faf du Plessis, no runs, gets forward and tried throwing his arms into a drive but the feet hardly moved towards the pitch of the ball.

Over 29.4 RAS Lakmal bowls a good length delivery to Faf du Plessis, no runs, comes on to the front foot and defends it back to the bowler.

Over 29.5 RAS Lakmal bowls a good length delivery to Faf du Plessis, 1 run, gets forward and pushes it to cover for a single.

Over 30.1 Lahiru Kumara bowls a pitched up delivery to Faf du Plessis, no runs, comes on to the front foot and drives it towards mid-on.

Over 30.2 Lahiru Kumara bangs it short onto the pitch to Faf du Plessis, no runs, moves in a tad as well and scales good height at a good pace to beat the attempted pull from du Plessis.

Over 30.3 Lahiru Kumara bowls a pitched up delivery to Faf du Plessis, no runs, gets forward and misses the clip or did he? Might well have been an insided edge, even if that wasn't case, the ball seemed to have been going down.

Over 30.4 Lahiru Kumara bowls a good length delivery to Faf du Plessis, no runs, goes on to the back foot and defends it to the on-side.

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