Sri Lanka in South Africa Test Series - 2nd Test
South Africa won by 6 wickets
- Test no. 1414 | 1997/98 season
- Played at Centurion Park
- 27,28,29,30 March 1998 (5-day match)
| Sri Lanka 1st innings | R | M | B | 4s | 6s | SR | ||
| ST Jayasuriya | c †Boucher b Ntini | 51 | 104 | 77 | 6 | 1 | 66.23 | |
| MS Atapattu | run out (Kirsten) | 12 | 89 | 70 | 2 | 0 | 17.14 | |
| RS Mahanama | c Kallis b Cronje | 50 | 223 | 178 | 4 | 1 | 28.08 | |
| PA de Silva | c Adams b Ntini | 1 | 8 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 50.00 | |
| A Ranatunga* | lbw b Donald | 73 | 264 | 177 | 12 | 0 | 41.24 | |
| HP Tillakaratne | c Kirsten b Cronje | 55 | 184 | 134 | 9 | 0 | 41.04 | |
| RS Kaluwitharana† | c †Boucher b Donald | 9 | 20 | 15 | 1 | 0 | 60.00 | |
| GP Wickramasinghe | c Adams b Donald | 10 | 22 | 13 | 2 | 0 | 76.92 | |
| DNT Zoysa | lbw b Kallis | 0 | 9 | 8 | 0 | 0 | 0.00 | |
| M Muralitharan | c †Boucher b Cronje | 11 | 44 | 36 | 0 | 0 | 30.55 | |
| KR Pushpakumara | not out | 0 | 21 | 14 | 0 | 0 | 0.00 | |
| Extras | (b 6, lb 14, w 3, nb 8) | 31 | ||||||
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| Total | (all out; 118.3 overs) | 303 | (2.55 runs per over) | |||||
| Bowling | O | M | R | W | Econ | |||
| AA Donald | 33 | 10 | 73 | 3 | 2.21 | (3w) | ||
| SM Pollock | 7.1 | 3 | 9 | 0 | 1.25 | |||
| JH Kallis | 19 | 7 | 42 | 1 | 2.21 | (2nb) | ||
| PR Adams | 22 | 6 | 77 | 0 | 3.50 | |||
| M Ntini | 22.5 | 7 | 61 | 2 | 2.67 | (11nb) | ||
| WJ Cronje | 14.3 | 3 | 21 | 3 | 1.44 |
| South Africa 1st innings | R | M | B | 4s | 6s | SR | ||
| GFJ Liebenberg | lbw b Pushpakumara | 0 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0.00 | |
| G Kirsten | b Muralitharan | 13 | 115 | 82 | 2 | 0 | 15.85 | |
| HD Ackerman | b Zoysa | 7 | 9 | 7 | 1 | 0 | 100.00 | |
| DJ Cullinan | c Wickramasinghe b Jayasuriya | 103 | 307 | 185 | 13 | 0 | 55.67 | |
| WJ Cronje* | st †Kaluwitharana b Muralitharan | 10 | 40 | 27 | 1 | 0 | 37.03 | |
| JH Kallis | c †Kaluwitharana b Wickramasinghe | 12 | 40 | 38 | 1 | 0 | 31.57 | |
| SM Pollock | b Muralitharan | 1 | 25 | 16 | 0 | 0 | 6.25 | |
| MV Boucher† | c Jayasuriya b Muralitharan | 13 | 73 | 71 | 2 | 0 | 18.30 | |
| AA Donald | b Muralitharan | 6 | 34 | 25 | 0 | 0 | 24.00 | |
| PR Adams | c & b Jayasuriya | 12 | 24 | 21 | 1 | 1 | 57.14 | |
| M Ntini | not out | 2 | 11 | 9 | 0 | 0 | 22.22 | |
| Extras | (b 1, lb 6, w 6, nb 8) | 21 | ||||||
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| Total | (all out; 78 overs) | 200 | (2.56 runs per over) | |||||
| Bowling | O | M | R | W | Econ | |||
| KR Pushpakumara | 16 | 2 | 55 | 1 | 3.43 | (9nb, 1w) | ||
| DNT Zoysa | 12 | 2 | 29 | 1 | 2.41 | (2nb, 2w) | ||
| GP Wickramasinghe | 15 | 2 | 36 | 1 | 2.40 | (2nb) | ||
| M Muralitharan | 30 | 8 | 63 | 5 | 2.10 | (2nb) | ||
| ST Jayasuriya | 5 | 2 | 10 | 2 | 2.00 |
| Sri Lanka 2nd innings | R | M | B | 4s | 6s | SR | ||
| ST Jayasuriya | b Donald | 16 | 30 | 23 | 3 | 0 | 69.56 | |
| MS Atapattu | c †Boucher b Donald | 7 | 56 | 34 | 0 | 0 | 20.58 | |
| RS Mahanama | lbw b Donald | 0 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0.00 | |
| PA de Silva | run out (†Boucher) | 41 | 99 | 75 | 6 | 1 | 54.66 | |
| A Ranatunga* | c †Boucher b Cronje | 0 | 10 | 7 | 0 | 0 | 0.00 | |
| HP Tillakaratne | c sub (DN Crookes) b Cronje | 0 | 8 | 4 | 0 | 0 | 0.00 | |
| RS Kaluwitharana† | run out (sub [DN Crookes]) | 0 | 5 | 3 | 0 | 0 | 0.00 | |
| GP Wickramasinghe | b Adams | 21 | 74 | 59 | 4 | 0 | 35.59 | |
| DNT Zoysa | c †Boucher b Donald | 14 | 41 | 35 | 1 | 0 | 40.00 | |
| M Muralitharan | c Kirsten b Donald | 15 | 19 | 11 | 2 | 0 | 136.36 | |
| KR Pushpakumara | not out | 0 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 0 | - | |
| Extras | (lb 5, nb 3) | 8 | ||||||
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| Total | (all out; 41.3 overs) | 122 | (2.93 runs per over) | |||||
| Bowling | O | M | R | W | Econ | |||
| AA Donald | 13.3 | 2 | 54 | 5 | 4.00 | (1nb) | ||
| M Ntini | 6 | 2 | 13 | 0 | 2.16 | (1nb) | ||
| JH Kallis | 7 | 3 | 12 | 0 | 1.71 | (1nb) | ||
| WJ Cronje | 8 | 3 | 13 | 2 | 1.62 | |||
| PR Adams | 7 | 1 | 25 | 1 | 3.57 |
| South Africa 2nd innings (target: 226 runs) | R | M | B | 4s | 6s | SR | ||
| G Kirsten | not out | 75 | 233 | 203 | 12 | 0 | 36.94 | |
| GFJ Liebenberg | lbw b Muralitharan | 45 | 120 | 89 | 7 | 0 | 50.56 | |
| HD Ackerman | b Muralitharan | 2 | 24 | 24 | 0 | 0 | 8.33 | |
| DJ Cullinan | lbw b Muralitharan | 0 | 6 | 3 | 0 | 0 | 0.00 | |
| WJ Cronje* | c de Silva b Jayasuriya | 82 | 70 | 63 | 8 | 6 | 130.15 | |
| JH Kallis | not out | 0 | 8 | 7 | 0 | 0 | 0.00 | |
| Extras | (b 8, lb 3, nb 11) | 22 | ||||||
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| Total | (4 wickets; 62.5 overs) | 226 | (3.59 runs per over) | |||||
| Did not bat SM Pollock, MV Boucher†, AA Donald, PR Adams, M Ntini |
| Fall of wickets1-89 (Liebenberg, 30.4 ov), 2-99 (Ackerman, 38.4 ov), 3-99 (Cullinan, 40.1 ov), 4-215 (Cronje, 59.6 ov) |
| Bowling | O | M | R | W | Econ | |||
| KR Pushpakumara | 7 | 2 | 27 | 0 | 3.85 | (4nb) | ||
| DNT Zoysa | 2 | 0 | 11 | 0 | 5.50 | |||
| GP Wickramasinghe | 6 | 1 | 7 | 0 | 1.16 | |||
| PA de Silva | 5 | 1 | 14 | 0 | 2.80 | (2nb) | ||
| M Muralitharan | 23.5 | 4 | 94 | 3 | 3.94 | (6nb) | ||
| ST Jayasuriya | 19 | 6 | 62 | 1 | 3.26 |
| Match details |
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Toss Sri Lanka, who chose to bat Series South Africa won the 2-match series 2-0 |
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Test debut
GFJ Liebenberg
(South Africa) Player of the match AA Donald (South Africa) Player of the series DJ Cullinan (South Africa) |
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Umpires
Javed Akhtar (Pakistan) and RE Koertzen TV umpire DL Orchard Match referee HAB Gardiner (Zimbabwe) |
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Close of play 27 Mar day 1 - Sri Lanka 1st innings 165/3 (RS Mahanama 44*, A Ranatunga 40*, 60 ov) 28 Mar day 2 - South Africa 1st innings 75/3 (DJ Cullinan 42*, WJ Cronje 0*, 24.4 ov) 29 Mar day 3 - Sri Lanka 2nd innings 93/7 (GP Wickramasinghe 16*, DNT Zoysa 6*, 35 ov) 30 Mar day 4 - South Africa 2nd innings 226/4 (62.5 ov) - end of match |
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