Sri Lanka tour of South Africa, South Africa vs Sri Lanka 1st ODI

Sri Lanka tour of South Africa, South Africa vs Sri Lanka 1st ODI

   Sri Lanka tour of South Africa 2019, South Africa vs Sri Lanka 1st ODI match was played on Mon 03 Mar 2019 in The Wanderers Stadium, Johannesburg. South Africa won the toss and elected to bowl first.

Sri Lanka Innings of South Africa vs Sri Lanka 1st ODI
Dickwella and Tharanga fails to give a good start to the team and got it on 8 of 7 balls  and 9 of 11 balls.Then a partnership between Kushal Perera and Oshada Fernando take the to 99-2. After Perera on 33 of 37 balls with 4 fours and Fernando  on 49 of 49 balls with 5 fours and 2 sixes gone to the pavilion. Kushal Mendis along with de Silva helped Lankans to score 231-10 in 47 overs where Mendis scored 60 of 73 balls with 5 fours and a six and desilva scored 39 of 52 balls with 3 fours and no other batsman contributed much to the team.
Ngidi and Tahir picked 3 wickets each and Rabada and Anrich Nortje got 1 wicket each.

South Africa Innings of South Africa vs Sri Lanka 1st ODI
 South African opener comes to bat,  after Handricks departed on 14 run , de Kock and du plessis built match winning partnership of 136 runs where de Kock scored 81 of 72 balls. Du plessis makes his 11th ton in ODIs along with van der Dussen scored 32 of 43 balls with 2 fours and du plessis scored 112 runs of 114 balls with 15 fours and a six and lead his team to win the match by 8 wickets. And du plessis got the  man of the match award.