The third Cricket ODI between South Africa and Sri Lanka (3 of 5) at Chevrolet Park, Bloemfontein. The game started at 14:30 SA Time on 17 January 2012.
This was a Live Discussion Article where we chatted about the match in progress and where the scores were updated regularly.
Sri Lanka 266/9 (50 ov)
South Africa 179/5 (34.0 ov) – rain delayed and decided by D/L method
The result of this game was decided by means of the Duckworth-Lewis method for weather affected games, with South Africa winning a very close one, by 4 runs.
| Sri Lanka innings (50 overs maximum) | R | M | B | 4s | 6s | SR | ||
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WU Tharanga | c Ingram b Peterson | 58 | 90 | 65 | 5 | 2 | 89.23 |
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TM Dilshan* | c Steyn b Duminy | 33 | 101 | 49 | 2 | 0 | 67.34 |
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KC Sangakkara† | run out (du Plessis) | 38 | 46 | 37 | 3 | 1 | 102.70 |
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LD Chandimal | c Smith b M Morkel | 36 | 76 | 54 | 3 | 0 | 66.66 |
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DPMD Jayawardene | run out (Ingram) | 15 | 26 | 19 | 1 | 0 | 78.94 |
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KMDN Kulasekara | b M Morkel | 40 | 59 | 38 | 1 | 1 | 105.26 |
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AD Mathews | c Peterson b Tsotsobe | 15 | 23 | 14 | 2 | 0 | 107.14 |
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CKB Kulasekara | run out (Tsotsobe/†de Villiers) | 19 | 31 | 20 | 0 | 0 | 95.00 |
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SL Malinga | b Steyn | 2 | 4 | 4 | 0 | 0 | 50.00 |
| HMRKB Herath | not out | 1 | 5 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 100.00 | |
| Extras | (lb 1, w 7, nb 1) | 9 | ||||||
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| Total | (9 wickets; 50 overs; 231 mins) | 266 | (5.32 runs per over) | |||||
| Did not bat KTGD Prasad |
| Fall of wickets 1-94 (Tharanga, 18.3 ov), 2-102 (Dilshan, 20.1 ov), 3-154 (Sangakkara, 29.1 ov),4-183 (Jayawardene, 35.4 ov), 5-192 (Chandimal, 38.1 ov), 6-220 (Mathews, 43.3 ov), 7-259 (KMDN Kulasekara, 48.4 ov),8-262 (Malinga, 49.3 ov), 9-266 (CKB Kulasekara, 49.6 ov) |
| Bowling | O | M | R | W | Econ | |||
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M Morkel | 9 | 0 | 65 | 2 | 7.22 | ||
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LL Tsotsobe | 10 | 0 | 40 | 1 | 4.00 | (2w) | |
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DW Steyn | 10 | 0 | 55 | 1 | 5.50 | (1w) | |
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JP Duminy | 5 | 0 | 26 | 1 | 5.20 | (1w) | |
| JA Morkel | 2 | 0 | 9 | 0 | 4.50 | (1w) | ||
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RJ Peterson | 10 | 0 | 45 | 1 | 4.50 | (1nb, 1w) | |
| F du Plessis | 4 | 0 | 25 | 0 | 6.25 | (1w) |
| South Africa innings (target: 267 runs from 50 overs) | R | M | B | 4s | 6s | SR | ||
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GC Smith | b Malinga | 2 | 21 | 13 | 0 | 0 | 15.38 |
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AN Petersen | lbw b Dilshan | 17 | 57 | 27 | 1 | 0 | 62.96 |
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CA Ingram | b Malinga | 13 | 9 | 8 | 3 | 0 | 162.50 |
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F du Plessis | run out (Mathews/†Sangakkara) | 72 | 99 | 74 | 7 | 0 | 97.29 |
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JP Duminy | run out (KMDN Kulasekara) | 25 | 49 | 34 | 2 | 0 | 73.52 |
| AB de Villiers*† | not out | 39 | 36 | 3 | 0 | 108.33 | ||
| JA Morkel | not out | 7 | 12 | 0 | 0 | 58.33 | ||
| Extras | (lb 2, w 2) | 4 | ||||||
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| Total | (5 wickets; 34 overs) | 179 | (5.26 runs per over) | |||||
| To bat RJ Peterson, DW Steyn, M Morkel, LL Tsotsobe |
| Fall of wickets 1-14 (Smith, 4.5 ov), 2-29 (Ingram, 6.2 ov), 3-52 (Petersen, 12.1 ov), 4-113 (Duminy, 23.3 ov),5-147 (du Plessis, 28.6 ov) |
| Bowling | O | M | R | W | Econ | |||
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SL Malinga | 5 | 1 | 20 | 2 | 4.00 | (2w) | |
| KMDN Kulasekara | 6 | 0 | 31 | 0 | 5.16 | |||
| KTGD Prasad | 5 | 0 | 38 | 0 | 7.60 | |||
| HMRKB Herath | 6 | 0 | 24 | 0 | 4.00 | |||
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TM Dilshan | 5 | 0 | 22 | 1 | 4.40 | ||
| CKB Kulasekara | 3 | 0 | 21 | 0 | 7.00 | |||
| AD Mathews | 4 | 0 | 21 | 0 | 5.25 |
| Match details |
| Toss Sri Lanka, who chose to bat |
| Player of the match tba |
| Umpires JD Cloete and NJ Llong (England) TV umpire BR Doctrove (West Indies) Match referee JJ Crowe (New Zealand) Reserve umpire S George |
| Match notes |
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January 17th, 2012 at 21:09 SAST
98@ superBul:Nice to see though, after the last two walk-overs. Hows work?
January 17th, 2012 at 21:18 SAST
Brilliant batting from AB, 3 X 4′s in the last over, all well worked
January 17th, 2012 at 21:21 SAST
@ Just For Kicks:
101
Good game this, work? what work?
No it is OK, but not much done today we have rain here since early, not sure how much , but it is still pouring down.
January 17th, 2012 at 21:27 SAST
With rain on the way, Proteas needed to be 173 at the end of that last over, so need to pick it up a bit, end of this over need to be 176
January 17th, 2012 at 21:29 SAST
103@ superBul:could do with a bit of rain down here, unbearable heat at the moment
January 17th, 2012 at 21:34 SAST
Rain starting to come down at Chevrolet Park, covers coming on. ahead of the D/L at the moment, so all ok at the moment
January 17th, 2012 at 21:36 SAST
they have decided to come off. South Africa are ahead on the D/L score at the moment
January 17th, 2012 at 21:47 SAST
Hey, not too bad so far by the Blomme.
I’m off to bed now… sleep well, keep well…
Gooooooooooooi Mieliesssssssss!
January 17th, 2012 at 21:50 SAST
If that rain is like the one we have it is curtains for the game.
Me off to bed too.
Cheers
January 17th, 2012 at 21:53 SAST
And on that note, so am I
January 18th, 2012 at 08:55 SAST
Superbul
Wanneer create jy vir ons ‘n Superbru groep op RT?