05/12Result

2nd Test, Sri Lanka tour of South Africa at Gqeberha, Dec 5-9 2024

South Africa won by 109 runs

Player of the Match

11.31pm That Verreynne century has taken South Africa past the 350 mark and this will be an uphill battle hereon for Sri Lanka. South Africa lost Maharaj early but Rabada and Verreynne added 56 off 76 balls for the tenth wicket to take South Africa forward. Verreynne still needed 19 to get to his hundred when Paterson came in, and the No. 11 hun g in. Two clean sixes off Asitha helped Verreynne get to his ton. The duo added 33 off just 17 balls for the last wicket with Paterson the last man to fall. Can Sri Lanka find a way back? We will be back in five minutes.

Ashok Sridharan: "Second (possibly) game defining contribution by Verreynne in a month after that magnificent effort in Bangladesh. Hopefully we'll be seeing a lot more of him in the years to come"

103.4

Kumara to Paterson, OUT, Spooned straight up and Kamindu takes a comfortable enough catch. Back of a length ball outside off, he looks to go across the line, gets it on the splice with the ball ballooning straight up. Kamindu gets across from short midwicket and takes it close to the non-striker's stumps

D Paterson c PHKD Mendis b Kumara 9 (14m 10b 2x4 0x6) SR: 90.00

103.3

Kumara to Paterson, FOUR, Fuller just on off, he clears his front leg and lofts through covers for four more

103.2

Kumara to Paterson, FOUR, Full on middle and leg, he gets a thick inside edge past the stumps for four

Match Coverage

All Match News

Kagiso Rabada, too unplayable for his own good
He only took six wickets in the two Tests against Sri Lanka, at a 30-plus average, but don't let that fool you
'It's in those little things' - Jayasuriya rues the chances that slipped away in Gqebehra
SL head coach feels batters didn't convert their scores and that their bowlers gave away too much to the SA lower-order batters
Temba Bavuma's summer of self-fulfillment
After a decade spent enduring questions from a vocal band of doubters, South Africa's captain stepped up and let his bat speak for him
Maharaj wraps up 2-0 win to take South Africa to the top of WTC table
Sri Lanka lost five wickets for 19 runs in 62 balls in a lower collapse that undid their work from the previous day
Maharaj calls for 'old-fashioned cricket' for South Africa to get job done in Gqeberha
He says South Africa "just focusing on the now and not the future" with the race to the WTC final hotting up

Videos

play04:28

Will Sri Lanka go in without a spinner in Gqeberha?
04:28
Takeaways: Paterson impresses at 35 with maiden five-wicket haul
03:32
Takeaways: Why, Pathum Nissanka, why?
03:45

Sri Lanka INNINGS		R	B
P Nissanka	caught wk	18	44
FDM Karunaratne	lbw	1	3
LD Chandimal	lbw	29	57
AD Mathews	bowled	32	59
PHKD Mendis	caught wk	35	35
DM de Silva	caught wk	50	92
BKG Mendis	caught	46	76
NGRP Jayasuriya	caught	9	19
MVT Fernando	caught	5	24
CBRLS Kumara	caught	1	11
AM Fernando	not out	0	1
EXTRAS	(b 5, lb 1, nb 6)
TOTAL	238 (all out; 69.1 ovs)

South Africa BOWLING	O	M	R	W	Econ
K Rabada	21.0	3	63	2	3.00	(3nb)
M Jansen	10.1	1	54	1	5.31	(2nb)
KA Maharaj	25.0	3	76	5	3.04
D Paterson	12.0	3	33	2	2.75	(1nb)
AK Markram	1.0	0	6	0	6.00

Sri Lanka 4th innings Partnerships

Wkt	Runs	Players
1st	10	FDM Karunaratne	P Nissanka
2nd	37	LD Chandimal	P Nissanka
3rd	17	AD Mathews	LD Chandimal
4th	53	AD Mathews	PHKD Mendis
5th	5	DM de Silva	PHKD Mendis
6th	97	DM de Silva	BKG Mendis
7th	6	NGRP Jayasuriya	DM de Silva
8th	8	NGRP Jayasuriya	MVT Fernando
9th	5	MVT Fernando	CBRLS Kumara
10th	0	CBRLS Kumara	AM Fernando

Kagiso Rabada, too unplayable for his own good

'It's in those little things' - Jayasuriya rues the chances that slipped away in Gqebehra

Temba Bavuma's summer of self-fulfillment

Maharaj wraps up 2-0 win to take South Africa to the top of WTC table

Maharaj calls for 'old-fashioned cricket' for South Africa to get job done in Gqeberha

Will Sri Lanka go in without a spinner in Gqeberha?

Takeaways: Paterson impresses at 35 with maiden five-wicket haul

Takeaways: Why, Pathum Nissanka, why?