Yesterday (30), South Africa managed to win by 233 runs in the first test match of the Sri Lanka cricket team’s South Africa tour.
By the end of the third day of the match, the Sri Lankan batsmen, who were chasing a huge target of 516 runs, had managed to score 103 runs for the loss of 5 wickets.
The captain Dhananjaya de Silva and Dinesh Chandimal, who remained unbeaten at that time, managed to establish a partnership of 95 for the sixth wicket of the innings yesterday, and here Dhananjaya managed to score 59 runs from 81 balls.
After Dhananjaya’s dismissal, Kusal Mendis joined Chandimal at the wicket to add another 75 runs to the innings.
However, the relationship ended with the dismissal of Chandimal, who scored 83 runs in 174 balls. And moments later, the South African bowlers managed to limit Sri Lanka’s second innings to 282 runs, and Kusal Mendis scored 48 runs with the bat. Meanwhile, Marco Jansen, who was successful with the ball again for South Africa, managed to take 4 wickets.
Thus, South Africa won the match by 233 runs, and Jansen, who managed to take 11 wickets in the entire match, was awarded as the man of the match.
The second and final Test match of the series is scheduled to start on December 5th.
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