| South Africa 1st innings | R | M | B | 4s | 6s | SR | ||
| AC Hudson | c Tillakaratne b Dharmasena | 22 | 99 | 71 | 2 | 0 | 30.98 | |
| KC Wessels* | b Liyanage | 26 | 103 | 73 | 3 | 0 | 35.61 | |
| WJ Cronje | b Ramanayake | 24 | 63 | 60 | 3 | 0 | 40.00 | |
| DJ Cullinan | c Ramanayake b Jayasuriya | 102 | 356 | 237 | 17 | 0 | 43.03 | |
| JN Rhodes | st †Dassanayake b Muralitharan | 7 | 22 | 17 | 0 | 0 | 41.17 | |
| BM McMillan | c Jayasuriya b Muralitharan | 2 | 27 | 19 | 0 | 0 | 10.52 | |
| DJ Richardson† | c de Silva b Muralitharan | 62 | 190 | 155 | 6 | 0 | 40.00 | |
| PL Symcox | c Tillakaratne b Ramanayake | 30 | 77 | 58 | 1 | 2 | 51.72 | |
| RP Snell | not out | 13 | 53 | 36 | 2 | 0 | 36.11 | |
| AA Donald | lbw b Ramanayake | 1 | 18 | 11 | 0 | 0 | 9.09 | |
| BN Schultz | c de Silva b Muralitharan | 0 | 5 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 0.00 | |
| Extras | (b 6, lb 10, nb 11) | 27 | ||||||
| Total | (all out; 121.1 overs) | 316 | (2.60 runs per over) | |||||
| Fall of wickets1-51 (Hudson), 2-53 (Wessels), 3-96 (Cronje), 4-108 (Rhodes), 5-128 (McMillan), 6-250 (Richardson), 7-281 (Cullinan), 8-311 (Symcox), 9-315 (Donald), 10-316 (Schultz) |
| Bowling | O | M | R | W | Econ | |||
| CPH Ramanayake | 25 | 4 | 75 | 3 | 3.00 | |||
| DK Liyanage | 21 | 4 | 58 | 1 | 2.76 | |||
| UC Hathurusingha | 6 | 4 | 6 | 0 | 1.00 | |||
| HDPK Dharmasena | 28 | 5 | 79 | 1 | 2.82 | |||
| M Muralitharan | 35.1 | 8 | 64 | 4 | 1.81 | |||
| PA de Silva | 1 | 0 | 9 | 0 | 9.00 | |||
| ST Jayasuriya | 5 | 1 | 9 | 1 | 1.80 |
| Sri Lanka 1st innings | R | M | B | 4s | 6s | SR | ||
| RS Mahanama | c McMillan b Schultz | 25 | 145 | 94 | 2 | 0 | 26.59 | |
| UC Hathurusingha | c †Richardson b Donald | 1 | 12 | 7 | 0 | 0 | 14.28 | |
| PB Dassanayake† | run out (Rhodes) | 8 | 75 | 54 | 0 | 0 | 14.81 | |
| PA de Silva | lbw b Symcox | 82 | 384 | 263 | 8 | 0 | 31.17 | |
| A Ranatunga* | c †Richardson b Schultz | 50 | 203 | 148 | 2 | 0 | 33.78 | |
| HP Tillakaratne | c †Richardson b Schultz | 37 | 212 | 139 | 4 | 0 | 26.61 | |
| ST Jayasuriya | c Cronje b Schultz | 65 | 157 | 92 | 9 | 0 | 70.65 | |
| HDPK Dharmasena | c †Richardson b Schultz | 5 | 33 | 27 | 0 | 0 | 18.51 | |
| DK Liyanage | b Donald | 0 | 27 | 15 | 0 | 0 | 0.00 | |
| CPH Ramanayake | not out | 0 | 3 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0.00 | |
| Extras | (b 7, lb 9, nb 7) | 23 | ||||||
| Total | (9 wickets dec; 139.5 overs) | 296 | (2.11 runs per over) | |||||
| Did not bat M Muralitharan |
| Fall of wickets1-1 (Hathurusingha), 2-27 (Dassanayake), 3-55 (Mahanama), 4-156 (Ranatunga), 5-202 (de Silva), 6-263 (Tillakaratne), 7-273 (Dharmasena), 8-294 (Liyanage), 9-296 (Jayasuriya) |
| Bowling | O | M | R | W | Econ | |||
| AA Donald | 30 | 12 | 62 | 2 | 2.06 | (2nb) | ||
| BN Schultz | 36.5 | 9 | 63 | 5 | 1.71 | (4nb) | ||
| BM McMillan | 30 | 8 | 64 | 0 | 2.13 | (1nb) | ||
| RP Snell | 25 | 8 | 44 | 0 | 1.76 | |||
| PL Symcox | 18 | 5 | 47 | 1 | 2.61 |
| South Africa 2nd innings | R | M | B | 4s | 6s | SR | ||
| KC Wessels* | c Mahanama b Hathurusingha | 7 | 24 | 23 | 1 | 0 | 30.43 | |
| AC Hudson | b Ramanayake | 28 | 107 | 75 | 3 | 0 | 37.33 | |
| WJ Cronje | not out | 73 | 214 | 179 | 6 | 1 | 40.78 | |
| DJ Cullinan | c sub (DP Samaraweera) b Dharmasena | 4 | 12 | 7 | 0 | 0 | 57.14 | |
| JN Rhodes | b Muralitharan | 19 | 111 | 88 | 1 | 0 | 21.59 | |
| BM McMillan | not out | 0 | 2 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0.00 | |
| Extras | (b 4, lb 17, nb 7) | 28 | ||||||
| Total | (4 wickets; 61 overs) | 159 | (2.60 runs per over) | |||||
| Did not bat DJ Richardson†, PL Symcox, RP Snell, AA Donald, BN Schultz |
| Fall of wickets1-11 (Wessels), 2-58 (Hudson), 3-65 (Cullinan), 4-159 (Rhodes) |
| Bowling | O | M | R | W | Econ | |||
| UC Hathurusingha | 8 | 4 | 7 | 1 | 0.87 | |||
| CPH Ramanayake | 10 | 1 | 26 | 1 | 2.60 | |||
| DK Liyanage | 4 | 1 | 17 | 0 | 4.25 | |||
| M Muralitharan | 15 | 3 | 39 | 1 | 2.60 | |||
| HDPK Dharmasena | 18 | 8 | 29 | 1 | 1.61 | |||
| ST Jayasuriya | 3 | 1 | 17 | 0 | 5.66 | |||
| PA de Silva | 3 | 1 | 3 | 0 | 1.00 |
| Match details |
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Toss South Africa, who chose to bat Series South Africa won the 3-match series 1-0 |
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Player of the match
DJ Cullinan (South Africa) Player of the series BN Schultz (South Africa) |
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Umpires
BL Aldridge (New Zealand) and BC Cooray Match referee JR Reid (New Zealand) |
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Close of play 14 Sep day 1 - South Africa 1st innings 231/5 (DJ Cullinan 85*, DJ Richardson 51*) 15 Sep day 2 - Sri Lanka 1st innings 117/3 (PA de Silva 44*, A Ranatunga 30*) 16 Sep day 3 - Sri Lanka 1st innings 245/5 (HP Tillakaratne 29*, ST Jayasuriya 35*) 17 Sep rest day 18 Sep day 4 - South Africa 2nd innings 159/4 (WJ Cronje 73*, BM McMillan 0*, 61 ov) 19 Sep day 5 - no play |
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