South Africa beat Sri Lanka within the first Check match© AFP
South Africa needed to overcome decided resistance from Sri Lanka’s batsmen earlier than profitable the primary Check by 233 runs at Kingsmead on Saturday. Set a large 516 runs to win, Sri Lanka have been bowled out for 282. Left-arm quick bowler Marco Jansen, the destroyer in Sri Lanka’s record-low first innings of 42, took 4 for 73 to complete with match figures of 11 for 86. In distinction to the primary innings, the vacationers made the South Africans work for his or her wickets on Saturday. Dinesh Chandimal (83) and captain Dhananjaya de Silva (59) placed on 95 for the sixth wicket and stored South Africa within the discipline for many of the morning after resuming at 101 for 5.
The breakthrough for South Africa got here when De Silva chipped a catch to midwicket off left-arm spinner Keshav Maharaj.
Kusal Mendis made an attacking 48 earlier than he grew to become Jansen’s tenth sufferer of the match, caught behind by Kyle Verreynne.
Chandimal and De Silva took benefit of the most effective batting situations of the match in opposition to bowlers who weren’t as efficient as they’d been when the ball was shiny and new.
South Africa have been additionally with out all-rounder Wiaan Mulder, who was dominated out of the remainder of the sequence with a damaged finger.
Chandimal, who was 29 not out in a single day, continued to defy the bowlers on the bottom the place he marked his Check debut with two half-centuries 13 years in the past. He made his 83 off 174 balls earlier than being caught and bowled by Gerald Coetzee.
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