Dilshan is the Man of the Match: "I took a lot of confidence from my bowling. Amla's wicket was very important for us, and we bowled really well after that. The plan was to see off the first few overs, rotate strike and then take chances. Scoring 30s and 40s no point for me or the team."

AB: "No doubt we were 30 runs short. Great knock there by JP. Middle order didn't get going. The pitch turned a bit more today. Credit to Sanga and Dilshan. I asked JP what he thought about the lbw appeal against Sanga and he didn't look confident, thought it was missing leg. The boys have fought hard. I thought de Kock handled himself well so far."

Mathews: "Was a bit worried after I lost the toss, they started well. We did well to hold them back. We wanted to keep them to under 250. I wanted to use Mendis more at the latter part when the wicket has been slower. Not sure if we will experiment in the final game. We would want to beat them 4-1."

That's it from us here. Thanks for your company. More reading material on this game coming up from Andrew Fernando. We'll see you soon. Cheers!

End of match: 238 was thought of as a challenging score at the break, but the seniors, Sanga and Dilshan made it seem as if SA were at least 50 short. A lot went wrong for South Africa in both innings. They couldn't sneak in early wickets like they did the last match, and normally, when Dilshan bats through, Sri Lanka are relatively safe. Perhaps today would have been good to send in either Thirimanne or Chandimal at No.3, but for the sake of closing out the series, they went with the experienced and in-form Sanga. They can do so for the final game, which is a dead rubber.

Leehar: "Still, you can see what South Africa have been missing. Brought Amla back, the start improved. Bring Kallis back and stability will come into the middle order. Bring Steyn in, and the killer instinct will come in for the Bowlers. All the ingredients are there, just need to make the right recipe."

43.6

Morkel to Dilshan, 1 run

Dilshan seals a crushing win! Clipped off his pads to square leg and fitting Dilshan does the honours and Sri Lanka are 3-1 up and cannot lose the series

43.5

Morkel to Thirimanne, 1 run

fires this one short down the leg side and he swivels and pulls to fine leg

43.4

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Morkel to Thirimanne, no run

fires this one wide outside the off stump and Thirimanne doesn't offer a shot

43.3

Morkel to Dilshan, 3 runs

this was fractionally short and he pulled in front of square, the fielder just pulls back before the rope, the umpire checks

43.2

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Morkel to Dilshan, no run

full on the pads and he clips this one to square leg

43.1

Morkel to Dilshan, FOUR runs

everything going Dilshan's way, not too short to pull and yet he gets an inside edge that sneaks past the stumps

end of over 43Maiden

SL: 230/2CRR: 5.34 • RRR: 1.28

Lahiru Thirimanne0 (6b)

Tillakaratne Dilshan107 (126b 15x4)

Jean-Paul Duminy 10-1-34-0

Morne Morkel 9-1-53-1

42.6

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Duminy to Thirimanne, no run

defends forward and we have a maiden over in the midst of the carnage

42.5

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Duminy to Thirimanne, no run

opportunity there, he dropped this shorter and Thirimanne rocked back and ended up punching to short cover

42.4

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Duminy to Thirimanne, no run

quicker one and comes forward and defends

42.3

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Duminy to Thirimanne, no run

shapes to cut but finds point

42.2

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Duminy to Thirimanne, no run

gets forward and drives straight to mid-off

42.1

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Duminy to Thirimanne, no run

quicker delivery and he gets forward and defends

end of over 4210 runs • 1 wicket

SL: 230/2CRR: 5.47 • RRR: 1.12

Tillakaratne Dilshan107 (126b 15x4)

Lahiru Thirimanne0 (0b)

Morne Morkel 9-1-53-1

Jean-Paul Duminy 9-0-34-0

41.6

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Morkel to Dilshan, no run

gets one to straighten and beat the outside edge, too bad Morkel didn't bowl too many of those today

41.5

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Morkel to Dilshan, no run

stays back and punches it to the off side

41.5

Morkel to Dilshan, 1 wide

he strays wide down the leg side

Fantastic series so far for Sanga, In line for the Man of the Series

41.4

Morkel to Sangakkara, OUT

we won't see twin hundreds today! Morkel pitched it up further and Sangakkara went on his knee to smash it straight, gets a top edge and Kleinveldt runs to his left from mid-off and takes the catch

Kumar Sangakkara c Kleinveldt b Morkel 91 (101b 8x4 2x6 134m) SR: 90.09

41.4

Morkel to Sangakkara, 1 wide

too wide outside off and penalised

41.3

Morkel to Sangakkara, FOUR runs

91 now, length ball outside off and Sanga thuds it down the ground down to long-off

41.2

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Morkel to Sangakkara, no run

Sanga makes room and walks across his stumps and unfortunately for him it strikes the pad and rolls to the on side

41.1

Morkel to Sangakkara, FOUR runs

his intent is clear, Morkel bowls length outside off, mid-off is up, Sanga makes room and smacks it over the off side and down to wide long-on

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Best performances - batters

Spike Graph

Wagon Zone

TM Dilshan

115 runs (130)

16 fours0 six

Productive shot

pull/hook on back foot

32 runs

6 fours0 six

Control

82%

JP Duminy

97 runs (121)

7 fours2 sixes

Productive shot

off side drive on front foot

24 runs

2 fours0 six

Control

93%

Best performances - bowlers

BAW Mendis

9.4

ECO

5.27

SL Malinga

ECO

5.77

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Match details

Pallekele International Cricket Stadium
Toss	South Africa, elected to bat first
Series	South Africa tour of Sri Lanka
Season	2013
Player Of The Match	Tillakaratne Dilshan
Series result	Sri Lanka led the 5-match series 3-1
Match number	ODI no. 3400
Hours of play (local time)	14.30 start, First Session 14.30-18.00, Interval 18.00-18.45, Second Session 18.45-22.15
Match days	28 July 2013 - daynight (50-over match)
Umpires	Rod Tucker Ruchira Palliyaguruge
TV Umpire	Richard Kettleborough
Reserve Umpire	Ranmore Martinesz
Match Referee	Andy Pycroft