South Africa vs Sri Lanka, 2nd ODI at Centurion, SL in SA, Mar 06 2019 - Ball by Ball Commentary

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"I suppose from a perfect game, after the start we had with the bat, we probably wanted 30 or 40 more runs. But the way we responded with the ball and the field is exactly what we want. Sometimes we need our bowlers to get you out of trouble and that's what the three fast bowlers did. Beautiful to see," Faf du Plessis says. "Lungi, you don't look at him and see he bowls 147. But he hits the ball hard and he always picks up wickets in the ifrst five overs and that's a massive weapon. Nortje has a huge tank, to bowl seven overs in a row. Good to see him bowling with pace and control. Good signs. Probably bout a year or two ago, I wanted to transition from a good player to try and become a great player so challenged myself mentally that when I get to 30s and 40s, I want to make big runs. And that mental shift is really the difference. For us the Vision is just to look ahead, doesn't always make sense, Mulder batting at 5 today, no one would have expected, but that's what we want to do. Its good that we're 2-0 up, it gives us that flexibility and to make out of the box moves. Someone like JP has to come back. We have to fix that. If he comes back it might change one or two other things. Obviously Dale will be back for the last two games. Hopefully we can get our top six batters, an allrounder and four bowlers for the World Cup"

Quinton de Kock is Man of the Match"I didn't mean to be [hitting all those boundaries] The wicket played really nicely up front. It's nice to get the team off to a good start like that. Every time we play cricket, we want to play the ball not the name, half-volley's a half volley after all. KG came out there with great intent. It's the fastest he's bowled in a while. Good to see him cranking up those speeds. [On Miller keeping] He seemed pretty excited. We are working on him. We'll make him a better keeper one day"

Presentation time "I think, first 10-15 overs we were not bowling well but after that we hung in there and then we restricted them to 250 which was a really good effort." Lasith Malinga says. "I think they didn't understand, I feel this is not a gift. They have talent. That's why they're playing fo rthe national team. They have to understand that. They have to understand their own value. We have done enough talking. Players have to realise they have to value these opportunity. They don't come around every day. They have to grab it."

UJack: "SL lost its last 5 wickets for 33, while SA lost the last 5 for 31. Top order performance made the difference. All the more reason QdK deserves to be MoM tonight. SL need to focus on their limited over batting urgently!"

ShaileshR: "SA have won by a whopping 113 runs, despite putting only 250 on board." ---- And that single sentence alone is about as emphatic as any high-brow analysis

7.41 pm South Africa were 220 for 4. Then they were 250 all out. That after Quinton de Kock's outrageous 94 off only 70 balls, with practically all those runs made in boundaries. The pitch really didn't look that easy to bat on. And Sri Lanka showed that to be true in the final stages of the first innings

But South Africa's bowlers and fielders were on it from ball one. There were yells of "one brings two" as Faf du Plessis set loose his fast bowlers. Kagiso Rabada and Lungi Ngidi responded, bowling 150 kph and setting the tone at the very start. The only batsmen that managed to offer any resistance was Kusal Mendis and Oshada Fernando. Both of them looked more than capable of winning this game but both of them were dimissed by Anrich Nortje, running one of them out and trapping the other lbw. Great game for the newly-capped fast bowler. And at 116 for 5, Imran Tahir came in, took over, and ushered the game to its current conclusion.

Adarsh: "Never thought I would see the words "substitute fielder Dale Steyn"."

Samrat Ahuja: "De Kock has gone to get ready to collect his man of the match trophy!!"

David Miller is keeping. Where's de Kock?!

The batsmen crossed while the catch was being taken so Kasun Rajitha can camp out at the non-strikers'

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