South Africa Beat Sri Lanka in the 3rd 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 3rd One Day international Match was to be played on Boland Park, Paarl, South Africa on 9^th Jan, 2000.

Sri Lanka won the toss and opts to bat first, so this means South Africa will bowl 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 3rd 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 3rd One Day International Match: Mark Boucher (wk), Nicky Boje, Jacques Kallis, Makhaya N, Shaun Pollock (c), Boeta D, Andrew Hall, Roger Telemachus, Jonty Rhodes, Gary Kirsten, Lance K.

Sri Lanka batted superbly well and were able to set total of 247 runs in 50 over’s at the loss of 4 wickets and top scored by Ramesh K who made 83 runs in 117 balls with 8 4’s and strike rate of 71 runs in 100 balls and Skipper Sanath J made 66 runs in 83 balls with 7 4’s and 1 six at the strike rate of 79 runs in 100 balls.

South Africa was needed to score 248 runs in 50 over’s to won this game.

South Africa batted well and were able to chase this total in 48.5 over’s at the loss of only 2 wickets with the contribution of Unbeaten hundred from Jacques k who made 100 runs in 139 balls with 3 4’s and 1 six and strike rate of 72 runs in 100 balls and Jonty R made 75 runs in 59 balls with 5 4’s and Boeta D made 65 runs in 100 balls with 5 4’s at the strike rate of 65 runs in 100 balls.

Jacques Kallis was declared man of the Match for his great knock and this win has meant lead of 3-0 in favor of SA in 6 match ODI series.

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