South Africa win over Sri Lanka by 9 wickets in the 2nd T20I match of the series.
The 2nd match of the T20I series between Sri Lanka vs South Africa was played yesterday at R.Premadasa Stadium, Colombo, In which South Africa beat Sri Lanka by 9 wickets.
Sri Lanka batted first after winning the toss entire team dismissed just for 103 runs in the first ball of the 19th over, Kusal Perera scored 30 off 25, Bhanuka Rajapaksa 20 off 13, Charith Asalanka 14 off 20, Dasun Shanaka 10 off 8, apart from this Chamika Karunaratne dismissed just for 8 runs, Dinesh Chandimal 5 runs, Dhananjaya de Silva 4 runs, Wanindu Hasaranga 4 runs, Dushmantha Chameera 1 run, Maheesh Theekshana dismissed without scoring, and Praveen Jayawickrama remains unbeaten without scoring, in this way, Sri Lanka batted first after winning the toss, wickets keep falling one after another, end of the result entire team all-out just for 103 runs in 18.1 overs, and set a target of 104 runs in front of South Africa.
South African bowlers performed very brilliantly, Tabraiz Shamsi took 3 wickets just for 20 runs, Aiden Markram 3 wickets just for 21 runs, Bjorn Fortuin 2 wickets just for 12 runs, Anrich Nortje and Keshav Maharaj got 1-1 wicket.
South African chasing 104 runs in the 2nd inning, they achieved the target very easily by losing just 1 wicket in the first ball of the 15th over, Quinton de Kock and Reeza Hendricks came to start the inning and gave a brilliant start with half-century partnership of 62 runs, the first wicket has gone for 62 runs, Reeza Hendricks dismissed after scoring 18 runs in 19 balls, followed by Aiden Markram came to bat, and he remains unbeaten after scoring 21 runs in 19 balls with Quinton de Kock, and Quinton de Kock played a brilliant unbeaten half-century and victory inning of 58 runs with the help of 7 boundaries in just 48 balls. In this way, South Africa chasing 104 runs in the 2nd inning, they achieved the target very easily after losing just 1 wicket in 14.1 over and won the match very easily by 9 wickets.
Sri Lankan bowler Wanindu Hasaranga got 1 wicket.
South Africa batsman Quinton de Kock was selected for the Man of the Match, he played a brilliant unbeaten half-century and victory inning of 58 runs with the help of 7 boundaries in just 48 balls.
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