South Africa Beat Sri Lanka in the 4th 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 4th One Day international Match was to be played on Newlands, Cape Town, South Africa on 11th Jan, 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 4th One Day International: Marvan Atapattu, Mahela J, Sanath Jayasuriya (c), Kumar S, T 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 4th One Day International Match: Mark Boucher (wk), Nicky Boje, Jacques K, Makhaya N, Shaun Pollock (c), Boeta D, Andrew Hall, Roger Telemachus, Jonty Rhodes, Gary Kirsten, Lance K.

South Africa batted Superbly and with the contributions of Jacques K who top scored with 82 runs in 79 balls with 4 sixes at the strike rate of 104 runs in 100 balls and Boeta D who made 77 runs in 86 balls with 12 4’s and 1 six at the Strike rate of 89 runs in 100 balls and Jonty R made 53 runs in 52 balls with 5 4’s and strike rate of 102 runs in 100 balls, were able to set total of 290 runs in 50 over’s at the loss of 7 wickets.

Sri Lanka was required to get 291 runs in 50 over’s to win this game.

Sri Lanka started poorly and kept losing wickets at regular intervals in the game and were bowled out for only 191 runs in 42.2 over’s with top score of Ramesk K who made 74 runs in 107 balls with 5 4’s and strike rate of 70 runs in 100 balls.

South Africa won this match by 99 runs and series as well with 2 more games to play.

M Ntini was the player of the Match for his great bowling and picking 5 wickets.

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