South Africa managed to win by 109 runs in the second test of the Sri Lanka team’s tour of South Africa today (09).
When the match was stopped yesterday (08), Sri Lanka, who were chasing a target of 348 runs for their second innings, had managed to score 205 runs for the loss of 5 wickets.
The unbeaten captain Dhananjaya de Silva and Kusal Mendis both managed to get 39 runs each, and after the start of today’s match Kusal was out for 46 runs and Dhananjaya was out for 50 runs. started
The Sri Lankan batsmen who entered the field after that were not able to achieve much success and they were able to limit Sri Lanka’s second innings to 238 runs. Here, Keshav Maharaj, who took the initiative to break the Sri Lankan innings, managed to take 5 wickets.
Thus, Sri Lanka had to suffer a defeat of 109 runs in the match, and at the same time, Sri Lanka also had to lose the series 2-0.
Dane Paterson won the man of the match award and Temba Bavuma won the man of the tournament award.
The series was a major blow to Sri Lanka’s Test World Championship finals hopes, but with this defeat, Sri Lanka’s hopes were severely damaged.
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