South Africa vs Sri Lanka 2nd T20I 2019

South Africa vs Sri Lanka 2nd T20I 2019

South Africa vs Sri Lanka 2nd T20I 2019

 South Africa vs Sri Lanka 2nd T20I 2019, Sri Lanka tour of South Africa was played on Fri 22 Mar in Supersport Park Centurion. Sri Lanka won the toss and elected to bowl. 

South Africa's Innings of South Africa vs Sri Lanka 2nd T20I match

 Aiden Markram made his debut in the match in place of Quinton de Kock and came to open the inning with Hendricks. But Markram couldn't score more than 3 runs of 5 balls in his debut T20I match. And got out to Udana in 2nd over of the match. After Markram's wicket Hendricks and van der Dussen built a partnership of 116 runs.

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Hendricks after scoring 65 runs(9 fours) of 46 balls  departed by Malinga in the 15th over of the match. And van der Dussen gave his wicket to Akila Dhananjaya after scoring 64 runs (4 fours, 2 sixes) off 44 balls. At the end of the inning Duminy scored some good and effective runs for the team and remain unbeaten. He scored 33 runs (2 fours, 2 sixes) of 17 balls which helped the team to reach 180-3 in 20 overs. Malinga, Udana and Dhananjaya picked one wicket each.

Sri Lanka's Innings of 2nd T20I match

Sri Lankan opener failed to give a good start to team as Dale Steyn departed Avishka Fernando on a duck in the 3rd balls of the match. and Dickwella got to go on 20 runs (2 fours, a six) of 15 balls by Chris Moris. After the 4th over Sri Lanka were 31-4. Thisara Parera tried to score  runs but got out on 22 runs  off 15 balls in the ball of Pretorious. Sri Lanka continued to lose wickets at regular intervals and were in deep trouble. As they lost their 7th wicket on the score of 83 runs in 13.5 overs.

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Udana at the one end played brilliantly with the lower order batsman and took the team close to the target. But wickets continued to fall at the other end which restricted Sri Lanka on 164-9 in 20 overs. Udana was brilliant with the bat and scored unbeaten 84 runs (8 fours, 6 sixes) off 48 balls. Chris Morris picked 3 wickets, whereas Dale Steyn  and Shamsi got 2 wickets each and Pretorious got a wicket.

                      Sri Lanka Lost the match by 16 runs and Russie van der Dussen got the Player of the match award.