Sri Lanka vs South Africa 2nd Test at Colombo, 20 Jul, 2018

Toss: Sri Lanka, who chose to bat first
Sri Lanka 338/10 (104.1)  &  275/5 (81)
South Africa 124/10 (34.5)  &  290/10 (86.5)
Sri Lanka won by 199 runs
Man of the Match: Dimuth Karunaratne
  • Lungi Ngidi 4 * (4)

Over 11.4 Akila Dananjaya bowls a tossed up delivery to Faf du Plessis, Boundary! Kneels down and fetches the sweep from outside off, gets it wide and over backward square leg. Raced away.

Over 11.5 Akila Dananjaya bowls it short of length to Faf du Plessis, Boundary!  Punched off the back foot, into the gap at cover. Dananjaya went for the variation but landed it too short.

Over 11.6 Akila Dananjaya bowls a tossed up delivery to Faf du Plessis, Boundary!  Gets forward and sweeps hard and gives backward square leg no chance. This is good counter-attacking batting.

Over 12.3 HMRKB Herath bowls a tossed up delivery to Faf du Plessis, Boundary!  Used the feet and then wanted to go inside out but dragged it as he got too close to the pitch of it.

Over 15.5 Akila Dananjaya bowls a tossed up delivery to Faf du Plessis, Boundary!  Goes down on his knee and sweeps it hard through mid-wicket and the ball raced away to the fence for four.

Over 17.2 HMRKB Herath bowls a tossed up delivery to Faf du Plessis, Boundary! Goes down on his knee and sweeps it down to fine leg fence for four

Over 17.4HMRKB Herath to Faf du Plessis Boundary! ...

Over 22.5Dilruwan Perera bowls flighted delivery to Temba Bavuma, plays a sweep shot through fine leg.Boundary!

Over 24.5Dilruwan Perera bowls flighted delivery to Faf du Plessis, plays a slog sweep over mid wicket.Boundary!

Over 25.5Akila Dananjaya bowls quicker and flatter in the air to Quinton de Kock, plays a sweep shot through fine leg.Boundary!

Over 25.6Akila Dananjaya bowls quicker and flatter in the air to Quinton de Kock, goes back and cuts it away straight to backward point.Boundary!

Over 27.4Akila Dananjaya bowls flatter trajectory delivery to Quinton de Kock, flicks it off his pads towards the fine leg region.Boundary!