South Africa Beat Sri Lanka in the 1st ODI of Bilateral Series played in 2000-01

Sri Lanka was scheduled to play 6 match One Day International Series in South Africa in 2000-01. The 1st One Day international Match was to be played on St George’s Park, Port Elizabeth, South Africa on 15 Dec, 2000.

Sri Lanka won the toss and opts to bat first, so this means South Africa will bat first and will try to chase the target set by Sri Lanka later in the game. This is how Sri Lankan team and 11 was looking like in the 1^st One Day International: Marvan Atapattu, Mahela Jayawardene, Sanath Jayasuriya (c), Kumar Sangakkara, Tillakaratne Dilshan, Chaminda Vaas, Nuwan Zoysa, Muttiah Muralitharan, Russel Arnold, Romesh Kaluwitharana (wk), Pramodya Wickramasinghe

And South African team and 11 was looking like this in this 1^st One Day International Match: Mark Boucher (wk), Nicky Boje, Jacques Kallis, Makhaya Ntini, Shaun Pollock (c), Boeta Dippenaar, Andrew Hall, Roger Telemachus, Jonty Rhodes, Gary Kirsten, Lance Klusener

Sri Lanka started poorly and lost its first 5 wickets on the team score of only 112 runs in 27 over’s in the form of S Jayasuriya, M Atapattu, M Jayawardena, Ramesh K and R Arnold. After that SL kept loosing wickets and were finally bowled out for only 221 runs in 49.5 over’s and top scored by K Sangakara who made 84 runs in 114 balls with 8 4’s and strike rate of 74 runs in 100 balls.

South Africa was required to make 222 runs in 50 over’s to win this 1^St ODI match.

South Africa batted Superbly well and were able to score 223 runs in only 47.2 over’s at the loss of only 6 wickets with top scored by Jonty R who made 61 runs in 80 balls with 3 4’s and strike rate of 76 runs in 100 balls and Garry K made 58 runs in 70 balls with 6 4’s and strike rate of 83 runs in 100 balls.

South Africa Won the Match by 4 wickets and with 16 balls to Spare.

Jonty R was adjudged the Man of the Match.

Pic owned By Google