- BATSMENRBM4s6sSR13.3 Tahir's done a brilliant job for his team here, and Kusal now gets himself out. He came at Tahir, who bowled another quick one down the off side. Possibly a googly. Kusal tries to bludgeon that over mid on, but gets a big top-edge, which AB de Villiers swallows at mid off 106/40.6 and carnage at the other end! What a first over. Steyn bowls a lovely ball, quick, fullish and pitching on off stump. Dilshan plays that horrible across-the-line swipe that has brought umpteen similar dismissal in the last two years. Looks like Steyn beat him for pace and the off stump is out of the ground. 17/14.2 gone! Morkel's extra bounce might have done for the batsman. He tried to lift this back over the bowler's head but it hit too high on the bat, and manages only to get it as far as Steyn at mid on, who barely has to move to complete the catch. Big strike for SA. 42/29.5 poor shot, and Tahir is ecstatic as usual. Sanga gets on one knee and tries to hammer a full, wide delivery to the straight boundary, but the ball is too wide to control and there might have been some topspin as well. Takes his top edge and loops gently to Lopsy at short third man 83/319.3 full on the pads, Mathew tries to close the face on it after backing away, but he's a little fast on the shot. The ball hits the edge and deflects back onto the stumps. 160/716.5 gone! Tahir's bowling too well to let batsmen run at him every ball. Chandimal comes at him, but Tahir has pulled back the length. The batsman misses with a slog across the line and de Kock has an easy stumping to complete, after collecting outside the leg stump. 137/518.3 a Twenty20 dismissal if I ever saw one. Perera aims a massive six over cow corner, swings at the length ball from Morkel, but he completely misses. The ball hits the top of off stump, as Perera's follow-through finishes up somewhere near square leg 152/6Extras10 (lb 3, w 7)TOTAL165/7 (20 Overs, RR: 8.25)Fall of wickets: 1-17 (Tillakaratne Dilshan, 0.6 ov), 2-42 (Mahela Jayawardene, 4.2 ov), 3-83 (Kumar Sangakkara, 9.5 ov), 4-106 (Kusal Perera, 13.3 ov), 5-137 (Dinesh Chandimal, 16.5 ov), 6-152 (Thisara Perera, 18.3 ov), 7-160 (Angelo Mathews, 19.3 ov)
Bowling O M R W Econ 0s 4s 6s WD NB DW Steyn 4 0 37 2 9.25 11 5 1 2 0 LL Tsotsobe 4 0 31 0 7.75 8 2 1 1 0 M Morkel 4 0 31 2 7.75 9 2 1 1 0 JP Duminy 2 0 13 0 6.50 3 1 0 1 0 JA Morkel 2 0 24 0 12.00 2 3 0 2 0 Imran Tahir 4 0 26 3 6.50 6 1 1 0 0
22/03Result
14th Match, Group 1 (D/N), World T20 at Chattogram, Mar 22 2014
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160/8 (20 ov)
Player of the Match
22/03Result
14th Match, Group 1 (D/N), World T20 at Chattogram, Mar 22 2014
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165/7 -
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160/8 (20 ov)
Player of the Match
- BATSMENRBM4s6sSR4.3 bowled! Malinga special. It's a swinging yorker, of course, moving in the air away from de Kock, The batsman aims a shot towards mid on, but doesn't get anywhere near this. It hits the base of middle and off and lights up the LED bails, which are definitely in place here. 32/110.5 got too close that ball and Sachithra has the breakthrough. Amla tried to repeat the shot over long off, but he can't get under the ball enough and also hits it too square. In the end it goes straight to Dilshan at a shortish cover. 82/215.4 gone! Another important breakthrough. Sri Lanka will be feeling a lot better after that one. Duminy slog-sweeps a flatter Senanayake ball outside off stump, but though he hits it well, he can't get enough elevation on it. Dilshan is at cow corner, right on the line. He doesn't make mistakes with those. 119/413.6 and he's gone! Mathews somehow contrives a breakthrough to keep Sri Lanka's hopes alive, here. De Villiers was down the track again, but Mathews pitches it short of a length a little slower, and AB only gets a top edge to the ball, which he tried to slap through the covers. Sanga makes no mistake. 110/319.2 gone, that's probably all over. Sri Lanka keeping their nerve, because they play a last-ball finish every other week, while South Africa are just giving it away. Another yorker, this time drilled to long off, and Miller jogs down the pitch for the first one, as if he doesn't want the second. Suddenly when he reaches the non-striker's he decides he wants two. It's far too late by then. The throw is already on its way to Sanga, who breaks the stumps with Miller miles out. Sri Lanka feel they've won it now 152/816.4 he's got him! I don't believe it, because that ball was there to be hit as well. Chandimal moves himself to wide long on, just square of where the two previous sixes had flown, but this time, though Albie plays a similar shot to another low full toss, he doesn't collect all of the ball. Chandi completes a pretty good catch over his head and is delighted 133/518.2 gone! Behardien goes, it gets Miller on strike, but Sri Lanka will take that, if nothing else, because it's a dot ball. Kule slowed up his pace a touch, and delivered a length ball on off stump. Behaardien slogged at it, but didn't connect well at all. Hits it down Mahela's throat at long on. 148/619.1 Steyn is running down the pitch, but Miller sends him back and oh dear, what a silly way to go. The batsmen should have been talking about whether Miller needed to keep strike during this over or not, but they clearly had not. Miller squeezes an impeccable yorker out to midwicket, and although there is a tight run there, he doesn't want to hand Steyn the strike. By the time Steyn turns back, Malinga is directing the ball onto the stumps, albeit with a fumble. 151/7Extras5 (lb 3, w 2)TOTAL160/8 (20 Overs, RR: 8.0)Did not bat: LL TsotsobeFall of wickets: 1-32 (Quinton de Kock, 4.3 ov), 2-82 (Hashim Amla, 10.5 ov), 3-110 (AB de Villiers, 13.6 ov), 4-119 (Jean-Paul Duminy, 15.4 ov), 5-133 (Albie Morkel, 16.4 ov), 6-148 (Farhaan Behardien, 18.2 ov), 7-151 (Dale Steyn, 19.1 ov), 8-152 (David Miller, 19.2 ov)
Bowling O M R W Econ 0s 4s 6s WD NB KMDN Kulasekara 3 0 23 1 7.66 7 2 1 0 0 AD Mathews 3 0 21 1 7.00 8 3 0 1 0 SMSM Senanayake 4 0 22 2 5.50 10 2 0 0 0 SL Malinga 4 0 29 1 7.25 9 2 1 1 0 NLTC Perera 2 0 18 0 9.00 5 2 1 0 0 BAW Mendis 4 0 44 1 11.00 6 2 3 0 0
Match Details
Series
Toss
Sri Lanka , elected to bat first
Player Of The Match
Match number
Season
Hours of play (local time)
15.30 start, First Session 15.30-16.50, Interval 16.50-17.10, Second Session 17.10-18.30
Match days
22 March 2014 - day/night match (20-over match)
Umpires
TV Umpires
Reserve Umpire
Match Referee
Points
Sri Lanka 2, South Africa 0
Match Notes
- Powerplay: Overs 0.1 - 6.0 (Mandatory - 51 runs, 2 wickets)
- Sri Lanka: 50 runs in 5.5 overs (35 balls), Extras 3
- MDKJ Perera: 50 off 29 balls (5 x 4, 3 x 6)
- Sri Lanka: 100 runs in 12.4 overs (76 balls), Extras 8
- Sri Lanka: 150 runs in 18.1 overs (109 balls), Extras 10
- Innings Break: Sri Lanka - 165/7 in 20.0 overs (KMDN Kulasekara 7, SMSM Senanayake 1)
- Powerplay: Overs 0.1 - 6.0 (Mandatory - 40 runs, 1 wicket)
- South Africa: 50 runs in 8.1 overs (49 balls), Extras 2
- 2nd Wicket: 50 runs in 37 balls (HM Amla 17, JP Duminy 30, Ex 3)
- South Africa: 100 runs in 12.3 overs (75 balls), Extras 4
- South Africa: 150 runs in 18.3 overs (111 balls), Extras 5
Match Coverage
All Match News'We lost momentum at the death' - de Villiers
Acting captain AB de Villiers said South Africa had conceded 15 runs too many in the field, and lost too many wickets at the death
Kusal salvo hides seniors' foibles
Sri Lanka's august senior batsmen made 23 collectively, but a 23-year-old's belligerence ensured his team triumphed nonetheless
SA's running disasters and Chandimal's precision change
ESPNcricinfo presents the plays of the day from the match between Sri Lanka and South Africa
Tight bowling disrupts South Africa
After Kusal Perera set them up with a rapid half-century, Sri Lanka exhibited excellent skills at the death to ensure South Africa fell short
South Africa wait on Steyn, du Plessis
South Africa will conduct fitness tests on Dale Steyn and the captain, Faf du Plessis, ahead of their World T20 opener against Sri Lanka, with both players attempting to recover from hamstring injuries
