South Africa Beat Sri Lanka in the 1st ODI of Bilateral Series played in 2014

South Africa was scheduled to play a 5 Match ONE DAY International Series in Sri Lanka in 2014. Both teams have great players and all rounder’s and match winners and it would be interesting to see them battle in this series and who batted very well  will be crowned as the winner after the series as both are ranked at 2 and 4. The 1st ONE DAY international match was to be played on R.Premadasa Stadium, Colombo, Sri Lanka on 1st July 2014.

South Africa won the toss and opts to bat first; this is how Sri Lanka team and 11 was looking like in this 1st ONE DAY international match: Mahela Jayawardene, Kumar Sangakkara (wk), Tillakaratne Dilshan, Lasith Malinga, Nuwan Kulasekara, Ajantha Mendis, Angelo Mathews (c), Lahiru Thirimanne, Ashan Priyanjan, Sachithra Senanayake, Kusal Perera

And South Africa team and 11 was looking like this in this 1st ONE DAY international Match: Jean-Paul Duminy, Jacques Kallis, Hashim Amla, AB de Villiers (c), Dale Steyn, Morne Morkel, Vernon Philander, Ryan McLaren, David Miller, Imran Tahir, Quinton de Kock (wk)

South Africa batted well and was able to post total of 304 runs in 50 over’s at the loss of 5 wickets and with top scores of H Amla who batted very well  made 109 runs in 130 balls with 8 4’s and 1 six at the strike rate of 84 runs in 100 balls, Ab de Villiers who batted very well  made 75 runs in 70 balls with 5 4’s and 1 six at the strike rate of 107 runs in 100 balls, d Miller who batted very well  made unbeaten 36 runs in 21 balls with 2 4’s and 2 six at the strike rate of 171 runs in 100 balls faced, Q D Kock who batted very well  made 27 runs in 35 balls with 3 4’s and 1 six at the strike rate of 77 runs in 100 balls, Ryan M who batted very well  made unbeaten 22 runs in 18 balls with 2 4’s and 0 six at the strike rate of 122 runs in 100 balls and J P Duminy who batted very well  made 16 runs in 25 balls with 0 4’s and 0 six at the strike rate of 64 runs in 100 balls faced.

Sri Lanka was needed to score 305 runs in 50 over’s to win this match at the run rate required of 6.08 runs per over.

Sri Lanka batted well but was unable to chase the score of 305 runs and was only able to make 229 runs in 40.3 over’s at the loss of 10 wicket and lost the game by 75 runs and top scores by K Sanga who batted very well  batted very well made 88 runs in 84 balls with 9 4’s and 0 six at the strike rate of 105 runs in 100 balls, T Dilshan who batted very well  made 40 runs in 46 balls with 5 4’s and 0 six at the strike rate of 87 runs in 100 balls faced, K perera who batted very well  made 34 runs in 33 balls with 6 4’s and 0 six at the strike rate of 103 runs in 100 balls faced and Lahiru T who batted very well  made 15 runs in 26 balls with 0 4’s and 0 six at the strike rate of 58 runs in 100 balls faced.

South Africa won the match by 75 runs and now this 5 Match ONE DAY international series stands at 1-0 in favor of South Africa with 4 more games to play in this great series.

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