Live Updates: South Africa vs Sri Lanka, ICC Champions Trophy 2017
Sri Lanka won the toss and opted to field first on a pitch that had decent covering of grass
LONDON (Dunya News) – In the the third encounter of ICC Champions Trophy 2017 at Kennington Oval, it will be the mighty South African side taking on Sri Lanka in a cruical match of Group B.
Sri Lanka won the toss and opted to field first on a pitch that had decent covering of grass and on which the ball should come on nicely as was revealed by the pitch report.
Match Updates
Squads
South Africa
HM Amla, Q de Kock, F du Plessis, AB de Villiers, DA Miller, JP Duminy, CH Morris, WD Parnell, K Rabada, M Morkel, Imran Tahir
Sri Lanka
WU Tharanga, N Dickwella, BKG Mendis, LD Chandimal, MDKJ Perera, CK Kapugedera, DAS Gunaratne, S Prasanna, RAS Lakmal, N Pradeep, SL Malinga
South Africa Innings
Overs 20, Score 90/1
In the eleventh over, Q de Kock played brilliantly an over pitch from Pradep to the fence for four more as South Africa were 39 for no loss after 11 overs.
The skipper brought in Gunaratne to the attack who also bowled rather good as South Africa were 44 for no loss at the end of twelfth over.
In the 13th over, South Africa lost their first wicket in the shape of Q de Kock who was caught behind by Dickwella of the bowling of Pradeep after scoring rather a slow innings of 23 runs.
South Africa were 45 for the loss of one wicket after 13 overs.
Fifty came up for South Africa in the 14th over as they were 51 for no loss at the end of this over.
Amla was batting slow may be because of the pitch and so was F du Plessis as South Africa run rate at the end of 15th over was just 3.66.
It was in the seventh over when F du Plessis after being dropped by Malinga guided the bowl to the boundary for four more as eight runs came of the over.
Amla took the charge in the 19th over as thumped Gunaratne for a huge six over leg stump. A good over for South Africa as 11 runs came of it.
Both these batsmen had decided to reschedule the innings as F du Plessis swept really well of the bowling of Prasanna and resulting in nine runsbeing conceded of the twentieth over.
South Africa were 90 for the loss of one wicket after 20 overs.
Overs 10, Score 32/0
Malinga took the new ball as Hashim Amla and Q de Kock started the proceedings for South Africa. Malinga as usual bowled fast as only 3 runs were conceded of the first over.
Lakmal shared the new ball with Malinga as he also bowled a fine over that conceded just 3 runs in second over.
Malinga restricted the South African openers from freeing their arms as only 4 runs were conceded in the third over.
Meanwhile, the other attack bowler Lakmal was also bowling with such a fine technique as the margin of width was almost negligible in his bowling. Lakmal just conceded 3 runs in his over.
The first five overs were exceptionally bowled as only 12 runs came of it. The sixth over being bowled by Lakmal conceded six runs as it was so unusual that South Africa without any boundary were 18 for no loss after six overs.
It was in the seventh over when Q de Kock sliced a drive of Malinga and fetched the first boundary of the day in the process.
South Africa were 24 after seven overs without losing any wicket.
Lakmal meanwhile bowled yet another brilliant over while conceding just 3 runs.
The skipper Upal Tharanga who is filling Angelo Matthews’ shoes in this match has decided to introduce Pradep instead in place for Malinga in the ninth over. Pradep bowled brilliantly as he only gave away one run.
Lakmal showed some real consistency however the good over was somehow spoiled by Hashim Amla who put a bad delivery into the infield for four more. Indeed expertly done by Amla!
South Africa were unconventionally slow as they were 32 for no loss after 10 overs.
