South Africa Beat Sri Lanka in the 2nd 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 2nd One Day international Match was to be played on St George’s Park, Port Elizabeth, South Africa on 17^th Dec, 2000.

South Africa won the toss and opts to bat first, so this means Sri Lanka will bowl first and will try to chase the target set by South Africa later in the game. This is how Sri Lankan team and 11 was looking like in the 2nd One Day International: Marvan Atapattu, Mahela J, Sanath Jayasuriya (c), Kumar S, 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 2nd 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 K.

South Africa batted superbly well and were able to set total of 302 runs in 50 over’s at the loss of 7 wickets and top scored by Niel M who scored 120 runs in 135 balls with 13 4’s and 1 six at the strike rate of 89 runs in 100 balls and Wicket keeper batsman M boucher made 55 runs in 48 balls with 5 4’s and 1 six at the strike rate of 115 runs in 100 balls.

Sri Lanka was needed to score 303 runs in 100 balls to win this 2^nd One Day International match.

Sri Lanka started poorly and lost its first 4 wickets only 106 runs in 27 over’s in the form of Ramesh K, S Jayasuriya, M Atapattu and Kumara S. And Sri Lanka Kept losing wickets at regular intervals of the game and were only able to make 207 runs in 50 over’s at the loss of 6 wickets and top scored by M jaya who made 59 runs in 84 balls with 5 4’s and strike rate of 70 runs in 100 balls.

Neil M was declared man of the Match for his great knock.

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