Over 32.1 Kusal Mendis bowls a tossed up delivery to Faf du Plessis, no runs, gets forward and pushes it to the on-side. |
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Over 32.2 Kusal Mendis bowls a tossed up delivery to Faf du Plessis, 1 run, goes on to the back foot and clips it down to fine-leg. |
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Over 32.3 Kusal Mendis bowls a tossed up delivery to AB de Villiers, 1 run, gets across the line and clips it through mid-wicket and picks up a single. |
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Over 32.4 Kusal Mendis bowls a tossed up delivery to Faf du Plessis, 3 runs, gets across the line and flicks down to deep backward square-leg and picks up three runs. |
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Over 32.5 Kusal Mendis bowls it short of length to AB de Villiers, no runs, goes on to the back foot and cuts it straight to cover. |
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Over 32.6 Kusal Mendis bowls a tossed up delivery to AB de Villiers, Boundary! Gets forward and drives it along the ground through extra cover, no chance for sweeper cover. |
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Over 34.1 Kusal Mendis bowls a tossed up delivery to AB de Villiers, 2 runs, gets forward and clips it of the pads down to fine-leg and picks up couple runs. |
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Over 34.2 Kusal Mendis bowls a yorker right into the blockhole to Faf du Plessis, Boundary! Goes deep in the crease and helps it down to fine leg for winning runs. |
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South Africa won by 8 wickets and go 1-0 up in the 5-match series |
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Imran Tahir is the Man of the Match AB de Villiers: I thought it was a really good performance. The wicket was a bit two-paced, much like Sri Lankan home conditions, but the new ball bowlers bowled with a lot of intensity. Can't ask more from them. There's more than enough time to settle in the side, we've got enough experience in the side to come up with good plans. It's still a tricky total, especially their spinners whom we didn't see much. Hash and de Kock did well by getting us off to a solid start. They came back properly in the T20 series, easy one for us today, but I'm expecting a better fight from them in the next game. Upul Tharanga: Chandimal and Mendis had a good partnership, but we struggled after that. The wicket was slow, but their bowlers stuck to the plans and bowled much better. It's about spinners in these sort of games, our spinners couldn't control as we didn't put runs on the board. We have to sit together have a chat and work on areas we need to improve. |
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