South Africa beat Sri Lanka
29/03/2007
Lasith Malinga took four wickets off four deliveries before Robin Peterson held his nerves to take South Africa to a one-wicket win over Sri Lanka at Guyana on Wednesday.
Chasing 210 for a win, South Africa was coasting at 206 for six when Malinga strode out into the middle. He dismissed Shaun Pollock and Andrew Hall off successive deliveries and came back in his next over to scalp Jaques kallis and Makhaya Ntini.
It seemed for a moment that the Proteas would choke yet again, especially with Chaminda Vaas supporting Malinga from the other end.
Peterson finally got a lucky edge off Malinga and the South African dressing room heaved a sigh of relief.
Malinga finished with the match figures of four for 54 from 9.2 overs, but missed out on the Man of the Match award to Charl Langeveldt, who picked up five wickets.
Kallis who played the sheet anchor failed to see his team through as he was dismissed for 86 runs.
Earlier, Chaminda Vaas uprooted AB de Villiers for a duck in the first over of the innings to give Sri Lanka a perfect launchpad for further assault. Smith and Kallis then led the South African revival with a 94-run partnership for the second wicket to steady the innings after the early departure of de Villiers. Smith cracked a brilliant half-century, his fourth in a row, to take his side to a comfortable position before falling to Muralitharan for 59 runs which came off 65 deliveries and included seven boundaries and one six. Muralitharan beguiled Smith into a drive and sanagakkara effected a brilliant peice of stumping to get rid of the dangerous looking South African skipper. Kallis was then joined by Gibbs at the crease and the duo went on the score 65 runs for the third wicket before Mauralitharan struck again to dismiss Gibbs whom he caught off his own bowling for 31 runs.
Charl Langeveldt, who notched a five-wicket haul triggered a middle order collapse to restrict Sri Lanka to 209 in 49.3 overs after skipper Mahela Jayawardene elected to bat.
The sixth-wicket pair of Dilshan and Arnold then stemmed the rot. Dilshan went on to hit his first World Cup fifty as the duo lead the Lankan fightback. He went on to make 58 runs off 76 deliveries - which consisted of four hits to the fence - before falling to Ntini.
Score : Sri Lanka 209/9 in 49.3 overs (Dilshan 58, Arnold 50, Sangakkara 28, Langeveldt 5/39, Ntini 2/26) South Africa 212/9 in 48.2 overs (Smith 59, Kallis 86, Gibbs 31, Malinga 5/54, Murlitharan 3/34)
Lasith Malinga took four wickets off four deliveries before Robin Peterson held his nerves to take South Africa to a one-wicket win over Sri Lanka at Guyana on Wednesday.
Chasing 210 for a win, South Africa was coasting at 206 for six when Malinga strode out into the middle. He dismissed Shaun Pollock and Andrew Hall off successive deliveries and came back in his next over to scalp Jaques kallis and Makhaya Ntini.
It seemed for a moment that the Proteas would choke yet again, especially with Chaminda Vaas supporting Malinga from the other end.
Peterson finally got a lucky edge off Malinga and the South African dressing room heaved a sigh of relief.
Malinga finished with the match figures of four for 54 from 9.2 overs, but missed out on the Man of the Match award to Charl Langeveldt, who picked up five wickets.
Kallis who played the sheet anchor failed to see his team through as he was dismissed for 86 runs.
Earlier, Chaminda Vaas uprooted AB de Villiers for a duck in the first over of the innings to give Sri Lanka a perfect launchpad for further assault. Smith and Kallis then led the South African revival with a 94-run partnership for the second wicket to steady the innings after the early departure of de Villiers. Smith cracked a brilliant half-century, his fourth in a row, to take his side to a comfortable position before falling to Muralitharan for 59 runs which came off 65 deliveries and included seven boundaries and one six. Muralitharan beguiled Smith into a drive and sanagakkara effected a brilliant peice of stumping to get rid of the dangerous looking South African skipper. Kallis was then joined by Gibbs at the crease and the duo went on the score 65 runs for the third wicket before Mauralitharan struck again to dismiss Gibbs whom he caught off his own bowling for 31 runs.
Charl Langeveldt, who notched a five-wicket haul triggered a middle order collapse to restrict Sri Lanka to 209 in 49.3 overs after skipper Mahela Jayawardene elected to bat.
The sixth-wicket pair of Dilshan and Arnold then stemmed the rot. Dilshan went on to hit his first World Cup fifty as the duo lead the Lankan fightback. He went on to make 58 runs off 76 deliveries - which consisted of four hits to the fence - before falling to Ntini.
Score : Sri Lanka 209/9 in 49.3 overs (Dilshan 58, Arnold 50, Sangakkara 28, Langeveldt 5/39, Ntini 2/26) South Africa 212/9 in 48.2 overs (Smith 59, Kallis 86, Gibbs 31, Malinga 5/54, Murlitharan 3/34)
Labels: South-Africa, Sri Lanka, Super-8 Matches
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