South Africa vs Sri Lanka 1st T20I 2019, Sri Lanka tour of South Africa was played on Wed 19th Mar 2019 in Newlands Cape Town. South Africa won the toss and elected to bowl first.
Sri Lanka's Innings of 1st T20I match
Sri Lankan opener continues failed to give a decent start to the team as Dickwella departed on a duck along with Kushal Mendis. Avishka Fernando was looking good but couldn't score more than 16 runs of 15 balls. A Perera scored 16 of 18 balls and Thisara Perera scored 19 of 21 balls.
Check out- South Africa vs Sri Lanka 4th ODI Match
Wickets continued to fall at regular intervals but Kamindu Mendis sticked at one end. And played some good shots to scored 41 of 29 balls with 3 fours and 2 sixes. Dhananjaya de silva scored 14 of 29 balls. Udana's quick 12 runs of 6 balls and Dhananjaya's 8 runs of 4 balls and helped Lanka to set a score of 134-10 in 20 overs.
South Africa's Innings of South Africa vs Sri Lanka 1st T20I match
Quiton de Kock and Hendricks came to open the innings but Hendricks got out after scoring 8 runs off 8 balls. Quiton de Kock departed on 13 runs off 17 balls, and du Plessis scored 21 runs of 23 balls with 2 fours.
Check out: South Africa vs Sri Lanka 3rd ODI Match
And then Miller and van der Dussen built a partnership of 66 runs and the match was under control of South Africa. But Sri Lankan bowlers came back strongly and departed van der Dussen on 34 of 30 balls. And Miller got out after scoring 41 of 23 balls with 5 fours and a six. Duminy scored 9 runs of 7 balls with a four, Phehlukwayo's 4 runs of 4 balls. The Lankan bowlers were able to restrict South Africa on 134-8 in 20 overs and are able to tie the match.
Lasit Malinga picked 2 wickets, de Silva, Akila Dhananjaya and Jeffrey Vandersay got 1 wicket each.
As the match tied between the two teams so the winner was to be decided by the super over. And South Africa batted first and scored 14 runs in 6 balls. Sri Lanka needed 15 runs to win the match but Imran Tahir bowled exceptionally well. Sri Lanka scored runsof6 balls. Andlostthe by 10 runs in the super over. And South Africa takes the lead in the series by 1-0. David Miller got the man of the match award.
0 Comments
if you guys like the blog or have any queries or suggestion regarding the blog or articles, plz do comment and show your support.....