Player of the Match
Player of the Match

1.43pm Considering South Africa's firepower with the bat, not sure if this total is enough for Sri Lanka's bowlers to mount a fightback. Except for that one partnership between Chandimal and Mendis, they really had nothing going for them. Wayne Parnell set the tone for the slide early with wickets in each of his first two overs, before Imran Tahir hastened it with his triple strike. Parnell has already suggested that chasing this total down will be harder than it seems. Even so, Sri Lanka's bowlers need to be at their very best and their fielders have to capitalise on every half chance and quarter chance to make a game out of this. The pitch is slow, there is turn for the spinners and the ball isn't coming on too nicely, it's stopping on the batsmen. Ones and twos will be the way to go about this innings. Big hitting is not always feasible given the power of the wind blowing across the stadium. Can Sri Lanka's spinners exploit the conditions on offer and bring them back into this game? Join us shortly to find out.

Wayne Parnell: "Obviously, really nice to strike upfront. Wickets in ODI cricket stem the flow of runs. They had a nice partnership going on in the middle, but we knew if we could break that, we can run through them. With the wicket playing low and slow, around the wicket is better. Not an easy wicket, we need to lay a foundation upfront.

48.3
W
Morris to Lakmal, OUT, wild slog ends the innings. Lakmal throws everything at it and misses it completely as the ball crashes into middle stump. It is full and tails in late. Lakmal misses and Morris hits

RAS Lakmal b Morris 3 (21m 12b 0x4 0x6) SR: 25.00

48.3
1w
Morris to Lakmal, 1 wide, short ball, angling down leg, tries to pull and does not make contact as the angle carries i further down the leg side
48.2
0
Morris to Lakmal, no run, almost a full toss outside off but it dips late, very late, and in fact it' a yorker wide outside off, cannot squeeze it out as the bat jams hard into the turf

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Consecutive fifty plus scores for Kusal Mendis in ODIs. He now has 8 fifites from 17 innings without a century.