South African bowlers thrashed Srilanka with no answer. As a result of the SA vs SL match south Africa started their campaign with a solid win at Nassau County International Cricket Stadium, New York.
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ICC T20 World Cup 2024, SA vs SL match info
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Venue |
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Date |
3rd June, Monday 2024 |
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Toss |
Srilanka won the toss and elected to bat first. |
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Match no. |
4 |
Nortje and Baartman got the early break-through for South Africa
Nortje was not in form throughout the IPL 2024 and was dropped for the reason. But, in this SA vs SL match Nortje dragged the match away from Sri Lanka as he picked up early 4 wickets by giving just 7 runs, and was the best bowling figure in his T20 career at Nassau County International Cricket Stadium for South Africa.
Ottneil Baartman supported him well, with a tight spell of 9 runs with a wicket in 4 overs. Both these pacers broke Srilank’s hear, with their bowling performance.
Markarm was right on toss as he said “We actually would’ve bowled. I’m not sure how the wicket is going to play. The team has been together now for a few years – the majority of the squad. Did well at the ODI World Cup, but ideally, I would’ve liked to go a few steps further. There are good facilities here. All things have gone well and it’s been thoroughly enjoyable so far. We’re going with four quicks and one spinner in Keshav.”
SA vs SL: Srilanka bowled for 77 runs
For the good bowling performance, Srilanka could not cross the 100 and bowled for just 77 runs in their opening match.
Kusal Mendis and Angelo Mathews only two batsmen to reach the double-digit for Sri Lanka. The skipper Wanindu Hasaranga and Sadeera Samarawickrama couldn’t even score a single run for their team.
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Quinton de Kock & Heinrich Klaasen won the slow and steady chase
De Kock and Klaasen together scored half of the runs for South Africa in this run chase. South Africa also fumbled in the chase in front of Srilanka’s bowlers. Dasun Shanaka is the only bowler from Sri Lanka who gave just 6 runs in his 3-over spell and picked up a wicket also but he couldn’t stop Klassden from power-hitting.
Quinton de Kock scored 20 runs in 27 balls including six, in the tough wicket. Kaalasen came into the crease after Markram’s soft dissmiseal. Kaalasen made his new identity “The six-hitting machine” playing SRH, scored 479 runs, and was the second-highest run scorer for SRH in this IPL 2024.
Heinrich Kaalasen did not upset his fans as he hit a big six and a four to lead south Africa to win in this SA vs SL match in the ICC T20 World Cup 2024.
ICC T20 WC 2024: SA vs SL scorecard
Sri Lanka innings
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BATSMAN |
Runs |
Balls |
4s |
6s |
Strike Rate |
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Pathum Nissanka |
3 |
8 |
0 |
0 |
37.50 |
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Kusal Mendis |
19 |
30 |
1 |
0 |
63.33 |
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Kamindu Mendis |
11 |
15 |
1 |
0 |
73.33 |
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W Hasaranga |
0 |
2 |
0 |
0 |
0.00 |
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Samarawickrama |
0 |
1 |
0 |
0 |
0.00 |
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Asalanka |
6 |
9 |
0 |
0 |
66.67 |
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Mathews |
16 |
16 |
0 |
2 |
100.00 |
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Shanaka |
9 |
10 |
0 |
1 |
90.00 |
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M Theekshana |
7 |
16 |
1 |
0 |
43.75 |
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Matheesha Pathirana |
0 |
4 |
0 |
0 |
0.00 |
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N Thushara |
0 |
4 |
0 |
0 |
0.00 |
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BOWLERS |
Runs |
Wickets |
Overs |
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Marco Jansen |
15 |
0 |
3.1 |
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Rabada |
21 |
2 |
4 |
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Ottneil Baartman |
9 |
1 |
4 |
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Maharaj |
22 |
2 |
4 |
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Nortje |
7 |
4 |
4 |
South Africa Innings
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BATSMAN |
Runs |
Balls |
4s |
6s |
Strike Rate |
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Quinton de Kock |
27 |
20 |
0 |
1 |
74.07 |
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Reeza Hendricks |
4 |
2 |
1 |
0 |
200.00 |
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Aiden Markram |
12 |
14 |
0 |
1 |
85.71 |
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Tristan Stubbs |
13 |
28 |
0 |
0 |
46.43 |
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Heinrich Klaasen |
22 |
19 |
1 |
1 |
86.36 |
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David Miller |
6 |
6 |
1 |
0 |
100.00 |
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BOWLERS |
Runs |
Wickets |
Overs |
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Angelo Mathews |
16 |
0 |
3 |
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Nuwan Thushara |
18 |
1 |
3 |
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Dasun Shanaka |
6 |
1 |
3 |
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Matheesha Pathirana |
12 |
0 |
3 |
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Wanindu Hasaranga |
22 |
2 |
3.2 |
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Maheesh Theekshana |
3 |
0 |
1 |
SA vs Sl what are the positives and negatives?
As the Nassau County International Cricket Stadium is a brand new stadium that just got prepared in 100 days, the soil was brought from Adelaide Oval, so the wicket might be bouncy and spinners will get help from that wicket.
So after winning the toss if Sri Lanka chooses to bowl then the result might be different, it’s just an opinion or Sri Lanka could even show much belief in their batting rather than bowling.
South Africa played good cricket with bat and bowl, but in their batting line up if we noticed there are few batsmen are in form others not in that form for a stage like ICC events. So, in future they could play with an extra all-rounder in the upcoming matches.
Sri Lanka with the bowl is good to compare to bat, but their fielding effort was not that good enough for the ICC tournament. Sri Lanka missed two catches in this SA vs SL match. They might word on that. We hope they will bounce back as they will face Bangladesh on the 8th June.