Hendricks 56 and Quinton de Kock 59 power South Africa beat Sri Lanka by 10 wickets to clean-sweep the series by 3-0
The 3rd and last match of the T20I series between Sri Lanka and South Africa was played yesterday at R.Premadasa Stadium, Colombo. In which Hendricks 56* and Quinton de Kock 59* power South Africa beat Sri Lanka by 10 wickets to clean-sweep the series by 3-0
Sri Lanka batted first after winning the toss scored 120 runs for the loss of 8 wickets in stipulated 20 overs, Sri Lanka started the inning not very well, Kusal Perera scored 39 runs in 33 balls, Chamika Karunaratne remains unbeaten for 24 runs in 19 balls, Dasun Shanaka 18 off 26, Avishka Fernando 12 off 8, Kamindu Mendis 10 off 16, apart from this Bhanuka Rajapaksa 5 runs, Wanindu Hasaranga 4 runs, Dushmantha Chameera remains unbeaten for 2 runs, Dhananjaya de Silva and Lahiru Madushanka 1-1 run. In this way, Lahiru Madushanka batted first after winning the toss, started the inning very badly, wickets keep fall one after another and end of the result they could score just 120 runs for the loss of 8 wickets in stipulated 20 overs, and set a low scoring target of 121 runs for South Africa.
South African bowlers performed very brilliantly, Bjorn Fortuin and Kagiso Rabada took 2-2 wickets, Aiden Markram, Keshav Maharaj, and Wiaan Mulder got 1-1 wicket.
South Africa chasing 121 runs in the 2nd inning they achieved the target very easily without losing any wickets in just the fourth ball of the 15th over. South Africa started the inning very-very brilliantly, Reeza Hendricks and Quinton de Kock came to start the inning gave a brilliant start, and took the match to the victory without losing any wickets. Reeza Hendricks played a brilliant unbeaten half-century and victory inning of 56 runs with the help of 1 six and 5 boundaries in just 42 balls, and Quinton de Kock also played a brilliant unbeaten half-century and victory inning of 59 runs with the help of 7 boundaries in just 46 balls. In this way, South Africa chasing 121 runs in the 2nd inning they achieved the target very-very easily without losing any wickets in just 14.4 over and won the match by 10 wickets, with this victory South Africa also clean-sweep the series by 3-0.
South African batsman Quinton de Kock was selected as the best player of the Match and series, he played a brilliant unbeaten half-century and victory inning of 59 runs with the help of 7 boundaries in just 46 balls.
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