The Sri Lankan spinners led by veteran Rangana Herath helped Sri Lanka to a thumping 199 run win, as they completed a 2-0 series whitewash against the Proteas today(23).

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Overnight batsman Theunis de Bruyn hit South Africa’s only century of the tour at the Sinhalese Sports Club grounds in Colombo, but it went in-vain as Herath bowled the hosts to victory on a rank turner.

De Bruyn along with the other overnight batsman Temba Bavuma looked fairly comfortable against the Sri Lankan spinners as South Africa finally seemed like they had learnt how to play spin on the 4th day of the 2nd Test.

They used the sweep shot especially to very good effect. De Bruyn was the more confident of the two to begin with but Bavuma grew in confidence as the partnership went past the 50 run mark.

Sri Lanka were running out of options for the first time in the series. Skipper Suranga Lakmal who was comfortable using his three spinners for the first 15 wickets of the match, had to bring himself into the attack. The move didn’t seem to effect the flow of the two South African batsman, as this time Lakmal turned to Dhananjaya de Silva for his part time off-spin.

The South Africans continued to resist. Bavuma too went past the half century mark as the partnership reached the 100 run mark too.

Read: Sri Lanka on the verge of series whitewash

Rangana Herath finally managed to break through when he had Bavuma caught behind for a brilliant 63 to end the 123 run sixth wicket stand. One wicket brought two for Sri Lanka as Quinton de Kock fell of what happened to be the final delivery before lunch on day four, when he was too trapped in front by Herath as South Africa went into the break still needing a further 244 runs for victory with 3 wickets in hand.

Kagiso Rabada played a few shots on his way to a quick-fire 18 but the story of the day was De Bruyn who went past the half century mark for the first time in his career. He reached the magical three figure mark with an exquisite paddle sweep as he celebrated one of the finest Test centuries made by a visiting batsman in Sri Lanka.

He fell soon after his century, when Herath who was bowling with the 2nd new ball got one to go straight through as De Bruyn (101) shouldered arms only to hear the clatter of the stumps.

It was a matter of time from then on as Herath picked up the final wicket of Dale Steyn to finish with six wickets in the second innings as South Africa were bowled out for 290 runs. Dilruwan and Dananjaya picked up two wickets apiece for the visitors as well, with Sri Lanka completing a much deserved 2-0 routing of South Africa.









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Full Scorecard

Sri Lanka

338/10 & 275/5

(81 overs)

Result

South Africa

124/10 & 290/10

(86.4 overs)

Srilanka won by 199 runs

Sri Lanka’s 1st Innings

Batting R B
Danushka Gunathilake c K.Rabada b K.Maharaj 57 107
Dimuth Karunaratne c Q.De Kock b K.Maharaj 53 110
Dananjaya de Silva lbw by K.Maharaj 60 109
Kusal Mendis c K.Rabada b K.Maharaj 21 34
Angelo Mathews c F.Du Plesis b K.Maharaj 10 24
Roshen Silva b K.Rabada 22 46
Niroshen Dickwella c F.Du Plesis b K.Maharaj 5 9
Dilruwan Perera c L.Nigidi b K.Maharaj 17 24
Akila Dananjaya not out 43 91
Suranga Lakmal c A.Markram b K.Maharaj 0 4
Rangana Herath c Dean Elgar b Keshav Maharaj 35 68
Extras
15 (b 4, lb 2, nb 1, w 8)
Total
338/10 (104.1 overs)
Fall of Wickets:
1-116 (D Karunaratne, 34.3 ov), 2-117 (D Gunathilaka, 36.3 ov), 3-153 (K Mendis, 48.3 ov), 4-169 (A Mathews, 54.3 ov), 5-223 (R Silva, 69.6 ov), 6-238 (N Dickwella, 72.4 ov), 7-247 (D de Silva, 74.2 ov), 8-264 (D Perera, 80.1 ov), 9-264 (S Lakmal, 80.5 ov), 10-338 (R.Herath, 104.1 ov)
Bowling O M R W E
Dale Steyn 17 3 60 0 3.53
Kagiso Rabada 20 3 55 1 2.75
Lungi Ngidi 14.2 1 54 0 3.80
Keshav Maharaj 41.1 10 129 9 3.14
Aiden Markram 8.4 1 24 0 2.86
Dean Elgar 3 1 10 0 3.33

South Africa’s 1st Innings

Batting R B
Aiden Markram lbw by Rangana Herath 7 20
Dean Elgar c Dananjaya De Silva b Akila Dhananjaya 0 4
Theunis de Bruyn c Niroshan Dickwella b Akila Dhananjaya 3 8
Hashim Amla c Kusal Mendis b Dilruwan Perera 19 58
Faf du Flessis c Niroshan Dickwella b Dilruwan Perera 48 51
Temba Bavuma c Kusal Mendis b Dilruwan Perera 11 20
Quinton de Kock lbw by Akila Dhananjaya 32 31
KA Maharaj c Dimuth Karunaratne b Akila Dhananjaya 2 4
Kagiso Rabada c Anjelo Mathews b Dilruwan Perera 1 10
Dale Steyn lbw by Akila Dhananjaya 0 2
Lungi Ngidi not out 0 2
Extras
1 (nb 1)
Total
124/10 (34.5 overs)
Fall of Wickets:
1-4 (D Elgar, 1.2 ov), 2-8 (T Bruyn, 3.2 ov), 3-15 (A Markram, 8.1 ov), 4-70 (H Amla, 21 ov), 5-85 (Du Plessis, 25 ov), 6-114 (T Bavuma, 30.3 ov), 7-119 (K Maharaj, 31.5 ov), 8-124 (De Kock, 33.2 ov), 9-124 (D Steyn, 33.4 ov), 10-124 (K Rabada, 34.5 ov)
Bowling O M R W E
Dilruwan Perera 12.5 1 40 4 3.20
Akila Dhananjaya 13 2 52 5 4.00
R. Herath 9 1 32 1 3.56

Sri Lanka’s 2nd Innings

Batting R B
MD Gunathilaka c Dean Elgar b Keshav Maharaj 61 68
D. Karunaratne c Quinton de Kock b Lungi Ngidi 85 136
D.De.Silva lbw by Keshav Maharaj 0 3
BKG Mendis (runout) Aiden Markram 18 27
A Mathews c Faf du Flessis b Keshav Maharaj 71 147
R. Silva not out 32 99
N. Dickwella not out 7 7
Extras
1 (nb 1)
Total
275/5 (81 overs)
Fall of Wickets:
1-91 (D Gunathilaka, 18.3 ov), 2-102 (De Silva, 20.2 ov), 3-136 (K Mendis, 28.4 ov), 4-199 (D Karunarathne, 48.1 ov), 5-263 (A Mathews, 79.1 ov)
Bowling O M R W E
KA Maharaj 40 4 154 3 3.85
Kagiso Rabada 8 0 42 0 5.25
Aiden Markram 7 1 18 0 2.57
Theunis de Bruyn 5 0 20 0 4.00
Dale Steyn 11 2 30 0 2.73
Lungi Ngidi 9 5 9 1 1.00
Dean Elgar 1 0 2 0 2.00

South Africa’s 2nd Innings

Batting R B
Dean Elgar lbw by D.Perera 37 80
Aiden Markram lbw by R.Herath 14 24
Theunis de Bruyn b R.Herath 101 232
Hashim Amla b R.Herath 6 18
Faf du Flessis c Anjelo Mathews b A.Dhananjaya 7 13
KA Maharaj lbw by A.Dhananjaya 0 1
Temba Bavuma c N.Dickwella b R. Herath 63 98
Quinton de Kock lbw by R.Herath 8 12
Kagiso Rabada c A.Mathews b D.Perera 18 37
Dale Steyn c D.Gunathilake b R.Herath 6 6
Lungi Ngidi not out 4 4
Extras
26 (b 16, lb 5, nb 4, w 1)
Total
290/10 (86.4 overs)
Fall of Wickets:
1-23 (AK Markram, 8.1 ov), 2-80 (D Elgar, 23.3 ov), 3-100 (HM Amla, 30.1 ov), 4-113 (F du Plessis, 35.1 ov), 5-113 (KA Maharaj, 35.2 ov), 6-236 (T Bavuma, 73.1 ov), 7-246 (Q de Kock, 75.5 ov), 8-280 (TB de Bruyn, 84.5 ov), 9-280 (K Rabada, 85.2 ov),10-290 (DW Steyn, 86.5 ov)
Bowling O M R W E
R. Herath 32.5 5 98 6 3.02
Dilruwan Perera 30 4 90 2 3.00
Akila Dhananjaya 19 2 67 2 3.53
Suranga Lakmal 2 0 8 0 4.00
Dananjaya de Silva 2 0 5 0 2.50
Danushka Gunathilaka 1 0 1 0 1.00