South Africa and Sri Lanka battled each other in a Quarter-Final game of the Cricket World Cup, at Sydney Cricket Ground, Sydney, Australia.
The match started at 05:30 SA Time (14:30 Sydney Time).
As expected, the traditionally BIG Cricket Nations, bar England, made the Quarter-Finals.
It was South Africa vs Sri Lanka in the 1st Quarter-Final, and will be Bangladesh vs India in the 2nd Quarter-Final, Australia vs Pakistan in the 3rd Quarter-Final and New Zealand vs West Indies in the 4th Quarter-Final.
Sri Lanka won the toss and chose to bat first.
South Africa Bowled and fielded with dicipline, aggression and passion, to dismiss Sri Lanka for a paltry 133, after only 37.2 Overs.
South Africa started their batting innings on a solid footing, only losing the first and only wicket, that of Hashim Amla, with the score already on 40 runs.
The Dinner Break was taken at the fall of the Amla wicket… so it was all to play for, for South Africa after Dinner!
South Africa cruised to victory in 18 Overs, with Quinton de Kock not out on 78 off 57 balls and Faf du Plessis not out on 21 off 31 balls.
South Africa becomes the 1st side to advance to the Semi-Finals.
Sri Lanka: 133 All Out (37.2 Overs)
South Africa: 134 / 1 (18 Overs)
South Africa won by 9 wickets (with 192 balls remaining)
| Sri Lanka innings (50 overs maximum) | R | M | B | 4s | 6s | SR | ||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| MDKJ Perera | c †de Kock b Abbott | 3 | 7 | 10 | 0 | 0 | 30.00 | |
| TM Dilshan | c du Plessis b Steyn | 0 | 19 | 7 | 0 | 0 | 0.00 | |
| KC Sangakkara† | c Miller b Morkel | 45 | 153 | 96 | 3 | 0 | 46.87 | |
| HDRL Thirimanne | c & b Imran Tahir | 41 | 66 | 48 | 5 | 0 | 85.41 | |
| DPMD Jayawardene | c du Plessis b Imran Tahir | 4 | 14 | 16 | 0 | 0 | 25.00 | |
| AD Mathews* | c du Plessis b Duminy | 19 | 37 | 32 | 1 | 0 | 59.37 | |
| NLTC Perera | c Rossouw b Imran Tahir | 0 | 4 | 3 | 0 | 0 | 0.00 | |
| KMDN Kulasekara | c †de Kock b Duminy | 1 | 4 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 50.00 | |
| PHT Kaushal | lbw b Duminy | 0 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0.00 | |
| PVD Chameera | not out | 2 | 17 | 5 | 0 | 0 | 40.00 | |
| SL Malinga | c Miller b Imran Tahir | 3 | 7 | 6 | 0 | 0 | 50.00 | |
| Extras | (b 4, lb 2, w 7, nb 2) | 15 | ||||||
| Total | (all out; 37.2 overs) | 133 | (3.56 runs per over) | |||||
Fall of wickets: 1-3 (MDKJ Perera, 1.4 ov), 2-4 (Dilshan, 4.1 ov), 3-69 (Thirimanne, 19.1 ov), 4-81 (Jayawardene, 23.1 ov), 5-114 (Mathews, 32.6 ov), 6-115 (NLTC Perera, 33.4 ov), 7-116 (Kulasekara, 34.1 ov), 8-116 (Kaushal, 34.2 ov), 9-127 (Sangakkara, 36.2 ov), 10-133 (Malinga, 37.2 ov)
| Bowling | O | M | R | W | Econ | 0s | 4s | 6s | ||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| DW Steyn | 7 | 2 | 18 | 1 | 2.57 | 30 | 1 | 0 | (1w) | |
| KJ Abbott | 6 | 1 | 27 | 1 | 4.50 | 26 | 4 | 0 | (1w) | |
| M Morkel | 7 | 1 | 27 | 1 | 3.85 | 30 | 2 | 0 | (2nb, 1w) | |
| JP Duminy | 9 | 1 | 29 | 3 | 3.22 | 29 | 0 | 0 | (2w) | |
| Imran Tahir | 8.2 | 0 | 26 | 4 | 3.12 | 34 | 2 | 0 | (1w) |
| South Africa innings (target: 134 runs from 50 overs) | R | M | B | 4s | 6s | SR | ||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| HM Amla | c Kulasekara b Malinga | 16 | 30 | 23 | 1 | 0 | 69.56 | |
| Q de Kock† | not out | 78 | 86 | 57 | 12 | 0 | 136.84 | |
| F du Plessis | not out | 21 | 56 | 31 | 0 | 0 | 67.74 | |
| Extras | (lb 4, w 12, nb 3) | 19 | ||||||
| Total | (1 wicket; 18 overs) | 134 | (7.44 runs per over) | |||||
Did not bat: RR Rossouw, AB de Villiers*, DA Miller, JP Duminy, DW Steyn, KJ Abbott, M Morkel, Imran Tahir
Fall of wickets: 1-40 (Amla, 6.4 ov)
| Bowling | O | M | R | W | Econ | 0s | 4s | 6s | ||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| SL Malinga | 6 | 0 | 43 | 1 | 7.16 | 21 | 4 | 0 | (2nb, 3w) | |
| TM Dilshan | 2 | 0 | 10 | 0 | 5.00 | 5 | 0 | 0 | ||
| KMDN Kulasekara | 1 | 0 | 13 | 0 | 13.00 | 2 | 3 | 0 | ||
| PHT Kaushal | 6 | 0 | 25 | 0 | 4.16 | 22 | 1 | 0 | ||
| PVD Chameera | 2 | 0 | 29 | 0 | 14.50 | 3 | 3 | 0 | (1nb, 4w) | |
| NLTC Perera | 1 | 0 | 10 | 0 | 10.00 | 3 | 2 | 0 | (1w) |
Match details
Series – South Africa advanced
Player of the match – Imran Tahir
TV umpire – RA Kettleborough (England)
Match referee – DC Boon
Reserve umpire – BNJ Oxenford
Match Notes
- Powerplay 1: Overs 0.1 – 10.0 (Mandatory – 35 runs, 2 wickets)
- Sri Lanka: 50 runs in 14.6 overs (91 balls), Extras 9
- Drinks: Sri Lanka – 50/2 in 15.0 overs (KC Sangakkara 6, HDRL Thirimanne 32)
- 3rd Wicket: 50 runs in 72 balls (KC Sangakkara 10, HDRL Thirimanne 33, Ex 8)
- Over 21.6: Review by South Africa (Bowling), Umpire – NJ Llong, Batsman – DPMD Jayawardene (Struck down)
- Sri Lanka: 100 runs in 28.1 overs (170 balls), Extras 14
- Drinks: Sri Lanka – 114/5 in 33.0 overs (KC Sangakkara 33)
- Powerplay 2: Overs 35.1 – 40.0 (Batting side – 17 runs, 2 wickets)
- Rain: Sri Lanka – 127/9 in 36.2 overs (PVD Chameera 0)
- Innings Break: Sri Lanka – 133/10 in 37.2 overs (PVD Chameera 2)
- Powerplay 1: Overs 0.1 – 10.0 (Mandatory – 61 runs, 1 wicket)
- Dinner: South Africa – 40/1 in 6.4 overs (Q de Kock 22)
- South Africa: 50 runs in 8.5 overs (55 balls), Extras 3
- 2nd Wicket: 50 runs in 36 balls (Q de Kock 26, F du Plessis 12, Ex 14)
- Q de Kock: 50 off 39 balls (9 x 4)
- South Africa: 100 runs in 13.5 overs (86 balls), Extras 17
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Anyway well done to the Proteas in particular JP Quentin and Imran.
A world cup hat trick is quite some achievement.
A clinical performance and great intensity.
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grootblousmile wrote:
Was busy, so couldn’t watch.
Great win though….as for what I said earlier about QdK when I said he is becoming like Gayle, 1 good innings in every 10 games or so, today just proved that point.
It’s obvious if you fail 7 odd times in a row as an opener, the law of averages says you will come good eventually, and in this WC today was the day.
Doesn’t mean the previous failures in this WC must just be swept under the carpet and ignored though
97 @ nortie:
Come on, just admit he kept well and carried the SA batting innings.
The Cricket World Cup’s 1st number of games has been an abberation for Quinton, a bump in the road if you will… compared to his ODI form and averages and his form in all Internationals, and today he continued THAT form, after the batting hickups.
Hopefully that will now set his path going forward in this Cricket World Cup too.
With De Kock at wicketkeeper it frees AB de Villiers’ hands to concentrate on captaining the side.
You will not admit it though, because you cannot stand being wrong.
Come on, say it… say WELL DONE QUINTON!
@ nortie:
As this is our first wc knockout win ever, it makes Quinton de Kocks innings even better, in previous years our openers would have chased this score while looking straight at the headlights… Smith and Kallis would have been so nervous they would really have tried batting at 2.5 rpo.
although you say he played “1 good innings in 10” if that 1 innings is in a world cup knockout and with our history in knockouts, then whats the problem? 😆
After just 43 ODI innings, his average is 39.43, with 6 centuries and 5 half centuries. His strike rate is 87.83. And he is still a youngster, so he can easily up his average into the mid forties, if not close to to 50. The man has talent and potential. It just needs to be nurtured.
@GBS, Macro
I have never had an issue with his keeping, I suggested that he continue as keeper, but move down the order.
Today he came off with the bat, no pressure after the bowlers won the game. Good innings, yes, but 7 bad ones before that in the WC.
Don’t let today’s innings cloud your judgments, he has been terrible with the bat up to today, and if anyone wants to disagree it’s just for the sake of wanting an argument.
@ Lion4ever
I have merely been focussing on the WC alone, not what he did prior to that. His record last year doesn’t count if he fails 7/7 in the current WC, so the only stats and averages I was focusing on was for the WC 2015
I have never disputed that he is a great player who could one day surpass even Gilchrist in future, but merely suggested that they think about moving him down the order when he failed 5 innings out of 5 in this comp.
Obviously some will now jump up and down to prove how wrong I am because today he managed to get some runs.
Compare his WC average as a opening batsman/keeper with Sangakarra ( I know he nr 3, but close enough ) and McCulum and where does he rate?
The batsmen who have so far won us WC games are Amla, AB and the other batsmen have all had better scores than him as well.
Today the bowlers won us the game, plain and simple.
To try and act as if Quinton “won” us the game is laughable, he merely, for once, did what the bat what he is supposed to do, and up to now hasn’t.
If we win this WC it won’t be because of his batting prowess, but in spite of it.
@ nortie:
Yep, He has not been great in this world cup… but I feel he is the spark we need, not to crash out… That’s just my personal opinion I guess and hopefully this “easy innings” will give him confidence.
No doubt the bowlers won us the game, but knowing how we do in this situations we regularly bat ourselves into a hole.
Also Amla won us a game vs Ireland and his bunnies the Windies, going by Norties Law, he owes us something special in a big game this world cup as well.
102 @ MacroBull:
No “Norties law” Macro, just common sense.
If QdK gets good runs in the Semi, and hopefully the final, that will be fantastic.
I hope he does, and hopefully everybody does the same.
The bowlers today operated at a much higher level than in the prelim rounds, that’s fantastic as well, no better time than now to peak.
I just don’t agree that based on today’s batting I must all of a sudden admit that I was wrong when I questioned his previous 7 innings and suggested that it might have been better for him to drop down the order.
I haven’t said he must be dropped, his keeping is too good for him to be left out, I was commenting on his job as opening batsman only.
There was no way on earth that we would “bat ourself into a hole” chasing 130. If Sri Lanka managed 220 plus, then yes, we might have had some butterflies, but not 130.
@ nortie:
No one in their right sense would consider dropping Q out of the team. Today’s innings by no means justifies a specific opinion, but the way he did it was quite emphatic, and for someone who was in that kind of slump and only 22 years old, to claw his way back in a world cup knockout, really means something.
With the guys available to open with Amla, de Kock is the one most likely to play a match winning knock at any time especially during the play offs.
@ MacroBull:
No one was ever going to drop him, whether he got 100 or a golden duck….that we all know and AB has said it often enough.
Even if he gets a duck in the semi he will still play in the final as well if we win.
If he had gotten another batting failure today, no one would have said anything and there would have been no “I told you so’s”
Remember when I said he must be careful of becoming like Gayle? One decent score every 10 or so innings, so getting one big score in his last 8 innings is pretty close to that equation.
This is like Pollard kicking 1/10 kicks every game for 7 games, then he slots 10/10 and everyone wants to tell everybody who asked for him to be replaced as kicker that he is the greatest match winner ever.
As I said in post 100, anyone who disagrees that for 7 games he failed to do his job as opening batsman, they are just looking for an argument and not being honest with what the stats show
101 @ nortie:
Pfffrrrtttt
Sing me another tune, maybe I’ll listen.
So he hit a little speedbump in the first lot of World Cup games with the bat, after establishing a great International ODI record before that for the Proteas against all comers… recently I might add!
What do they say… form is temporary, class is permanent!
If this could be equated to rugby… say Eben Etzebeth comes back from injury and takes a couple of games to regain form, then has a monster game… is it not then fair to shout “It looks like EBEN is BACK!”?
We’re doing no different for Quinton de Kock here!
Quinton is BACK!
Keep Quinton as OPENER!
Long LIVE Quinton de Kockerrottttt!
You see your problem… in your OWN WORDS… “I have merely been focussing on the WC alone, not what he did prior to that. His record last year doesn’t count”
… and one cannot do that, ignore his other recent International games & record… why in any case would one want to ignore those games?
SAY IT… it’s easy…
QUINTON, WELL DONE, YOU HAD A GOOD GAME!
(Fark, trust my luck to be that Quinton gets a perler bowled to him in his first over in his next batting chance in the semi and he goes for a duck or a single… farkit that will not be funny!)
Flok Nortie, jy raak veels te ernstig bedraad as jy verkeerd is, weet dat jy verkeerd is… maar weier om dit te erken!
Smile nou, vat ‘n diep teug aan jou smoke, relax… neem ‘n slukkie karatewater… en kom baklei dan weer verder met ons, toe, ek dare jou!
@ nortie:
Quinton is still the best option as opener for me.
Anyway lets be positive and reflect on the WIN
lovely article this
http://www.espncricinfo.com/icc-cricket-world-cup-2015/content/story/852147.html
“Soon it is 4 for 2. Dale Steyn is so excited his body almost explodes into pure light.”
WEll played by the Proteas. Great win for our boys.
For the 1st time our bowlers really came to the party. From that 1st over by Dale (who looked out of sorts the whole tournament) followed by Abbot who bowled wonderfully in the opening spell that I could watch before I went to work. Tahir and Duminy followed suit with wonderful spin bowling against some of the best players of spin in the world. Tahir’s record against a guy like Jayawardena is astounding. Duminy’s hat trick was just the icing on the cake of a great bowling performance by our bowling unit.
Good for QdK that he got some runs under his belt. It bodes well for the next game since we know that Amla is also due a good innings.
All in all, a very good performance but we should be very, very careful not to crown ourselves as CWC champs yet. This is cricket. Nobody could foresee that SL would capitulate like that after their performances earlier in the tournament.
@ grootblousmile:
hehe ek stem nie noodwendig saam met nortie nie, maar dit beteken nie noodwendig hy is verkeerd nie ou groote.
110 @ MacroBull:
Ek like dit as ou Nortie so vasskop en weier om te erken hy is verkeerd… dis maar hoe ons Nortie ken.
Hy sal argumenteer dat hy blou, rooi en pers in die gesig gelyk is, maar bes sal hy nie gee nie!
Flok, noudat ek daaraan dink… jy is pre-flokken-sies dieselfde, jou wille moertjie… jy sal naderhand net argumenteer omdat jy vingers het om mee te tik, eerder as om standpunt te verander!
“Two captains: one captaining a must-win game of cricket, the other captaining a past awash with disappointments.
Then de Villiers’ face got worse, much worse. The Sri Lankan crowd cheered. There weren’t many of them in, but they knew what this meant. Everyone knew what this meant. Sri Lanka would bat first; South Africa would chase. All of South Africa’s past flashed up on de Villiers’ face. The coin was against him. History was against him. His own emotions seemed against him.
It even looked like David Boon leant in to sledge him.
This was a knockout game. This was THE knockout game.”
grootblousmile wrote:
Ek is ook nie verkeerd nie 😆
“For the finale, de Kock smashes a ball through cover, the last ball of only the 18th over. As it races away he breaks into a quick step. It looks like he is about to run like a mad man to the changeroom. Then he slows, walks purposefully and gives a tiny fist pump.
After all that, this was just a quarter-final. It wasn’t a monster. It wasn’t a demon. It wasn’t an invisible crushing force. No one averted an apocalypse. They just won a game. Not the final game. But the game.
AB de Villiers’ face at the next press opportunity is different. He is smirking before the question has even been asked. He breaks into a full smile before the question is finished. It is the face of winning a quarterfinal. The face.”
Werk dit so in jou huis?
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@ grootblousmile:
Ek se nie ek is altyd reg nie, maar mens is welkom tot hul opinie al stem ek nie saam nie.
PS my girl weet ek is altyd reg 😆
117 @ MacroBull:
Dit is my OPINIE dat DIT jou opinie is en nie noodwendig jou girl se opinie is nie.
In die regte wêreld is jy seker so mak soos ‘n lammetjie rondom jou girl!
“Ja liefie, jy is reg liefie, sorry liefie, sallie weerie liefie…”
@ grootblousmile:
nee flip partykeer wens ek sy luister nie vir my nie
On another note.
Thanks for the memories Sanga and Mahela. You were great servants to your country and wonderful contributors to world cricket.
Funny how a guy like Sanga can average better in tests that Lara, Tendulkar, Ponting and Kallis and still not get the recognition from certain parts of the cricketing world that he so richly deserves. Especially if you keep in mind that he was also keeping wicket, captaining the side and bat at no. 3 for most of the time while setting up his record.
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