Sri Lanka won the last ODI of bilateral series Againt SA

Sri Lanka was scheduled to play 6 match One Day International Series in South Africa in 2000-01. The 6th and Final One Day international Match was to be played on The Wanderers Stadium, Johannesburg, South Africa on 17th Jan, 2000.

South Africa won the toss and opts to bowl first, so this means Sri Lanka will bat first and will try to set target for South Africa to chase later in the game.

This is how Sri Lankan team and 11 was looking like in the 6th One Day International: Marvan A, Mahela J, Sanath Jayasuriya (c), Kumar S, T Dilshan, Chaminda Vaas, Nuwan Zoysa, Muttiah Muralitharan, Russel Arnold, Romesh Kaluwitharana (wk), P Wickramasinghe

And South African team and 11 was looking like this in this 6th One Day International Match: Mark Boucher (wk), Nicky B, Jacques K, Makhaya N, Shaun Pollock (c), Boeta D, Andrew Hall, Roger T, J Rhodes, Gary Kirsten, Lance K.

This match was reduced to a 42 over’s match due to rain.

Sri Lanka started poorly and lost its 3 wickets at the team score of only 20 runs in 8 over’s in the form of Sanath J, Ramesh K and Aravinda de Silva and after that with contributions of M Atatpattu who made 55 runs in 83 balls with 5 4’s and strike rate of 66 runs in 100 balls and Russle A who made 65 runs in 56 balls with 7 4’s and strike rate of 116 runs in 100 balls were able to make total of 214 runs in 42 over’s at the loss of 6 wickets.

South Africa was needed to score 215 runs in 42 over’s to win this match.

South Africa started poorly and lost its first 2 wickets at only score of 38 runs in 8.4 over’s in the form of H Gibbs and Jacques K, and even after that they kept losing wickets and were bowled out for 204 runs in 42 over’s and top scored by Neil M who made 47 runs in 74 balls.

Sri Lanka won this match but South Africa won the series 5-1.

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