| a11098 o1315 |
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| Venue | St George's Park, Port Elizabeth on 13th April 1998 (50-over match) |
| Balls per over | 6 |
| Toss | South Africa won the toss and decided to bat |
| Result | Sri Lanka won by 6 wickets |
| Points | South Africa 0; Sri Lanka 2 |
| Umpires | DF Becker, RE Koertzen |
| TV umpire | CJ Mitchley |
| Referee | JR Reid |
| Player of the Match | A Ranatunga |
| South Africa innings | Runs | Balls | Mins | 4s | 6s | S-Rate | |
| MJR Rindel | b Vaas | 35 | 68 | 97 | 2 | - | 51.47 |
| G Kirsten | c Atapattu b Muralitharan | 46 | 50 | 80 | 6 | - | 92.00 |
| PL Symcox | c Muralitharan b Dharmasena | 13 | 18 | 28 | 1 | - | 72.22 |
| HH Gibbs | c Muralitharan b Jayasuriya | 33 | 43 | 46 | 3 | - | 76.74 |
| *WJ Cronje | c Ranatunga b Muralitharan | 0 | 3 | 1 | - | - | 0.00 |
| JN Rhodes | st Kaluwitharana b Muralitharan | 36 | 48 | 71 | 1 | - | 75.00 |
| SM Pollock | c de Silva b Chandana | 22 | 25 | 23 | - | 1 | 88.00 |
| JH Kallis | lbw b Jayasuriya | 1 | 2 | 3 | - | - | 50.00 |
| +MV Boucher | lbw b Vaas | 14 | 22 | 29 | 1 | - | 63.64 |
| L Klusener | c Atapattu b Vaas | 18 | 20 | 22 | 1 | - | 90.00 |
| R Telemachus | not out | 1 | 1 | 2 | - | - | 100.00 |
| Extras | (1 b, 9 lb, 2 w) | 12 | |||||
| Total | (all out, 49.5 overs) | 231 | |||||
| Fall of wickets: | |||||||
| 1-78 (Kirsten, 17.4 ov), 2-94 (Rindel, 21.5 ov), 3-104 (Symcox, 24.6 ov), 4-104 (Cronje, 25.3 ov), 5-150 (Gibbs, 33.1 ov), 6-186 (Pollock, 40.4 ov), 7-189 (Kallis, 41.2 ov), 8-201 (Rhodes, 44.3 ov), 9-230 (Boucher, 49.3 ov), 10-231 (Klusener, 49.5 ov) | |||||||
| Sri Lanka bowling | Overs | Mdns | Runs | Wkts | Wides | No-Balls | S-Rate | Econ |
| Vaas | 7.5 | 0 | 33 | 3 | - | - | 15.67 | 4.21 |
| Wickramasinghe | 6 | 0 | 28 | 0 | - | - | - | 4.67 |
| Dharmasena | 10 | 0 | 37 | 1 | - | - | 60.00 | 3.70 |
| Muralitharan | 10 | 1 | 47 | 3 | 2 | - | 20.00 | 4.70 |
| Chandana | 9 | 0 | 42 | 1 | - | 1 | 54.00 | 4.67 |
| Jayasuriya | 7 | 0 | 34 | 2 | - | - | 21.00 | 4.86 |
| Sri Lanka innings | Runs | Balls | Mins | 4s | 6s | S-Rate | |
| ST Jayasuriya | c Cronje b Telemachus | 7 | 16 | 19 | 1 | - | 43.75 |
| +RS Kaluwitharana | lbw b Telemachus | 4 | 4 | 8 | 1 | - | 100.00 |
| MS Atapattu | b Kallis | 63 | 78 | 99 | 6 | - | 80.77 |
| PA de Silva | b Pollock | 1 | 5 | 2 | - | - | 20.00 |
| *A Ranatunga | not out | 93 | 118 | 171 | 9 | 1 | 78.81 |
| RS Mahanama | not out | 46 | 63 | 85 | 4 | - | 73.02 |
| HDPK Dharmasena | did not bat | ||||||
| UDU Chandana | did not bat | ||||||
| M Muralitharan | did not bat | ||||||
| WPUJC Vaas | did not bat | ||||||
| GP Wickramasinghe | did not bat | ||||||
| Extras | (9 lb, 2 nb, 7 w) | 18 | |||||
| Total | (4 wickets, 46.4 overs) | 232 | |||||
| Fall of wickets: | |||||||
| 1-8 (Kaluwitharana, 1.3 ov), 2-15 (Jayasuriya, 3.5 ov), 3-17 (de Silva, 4.3 ov), 4-125 (Atapattu, 26.1 ov) | |||||||
| South Africa bowling | Overs | Mdns | Runs | Wkts | Wides | No-Balls | S-Rate | Econ |
| Pollock | 8 | 0 | 29 | 1 | 2 | 2 | 48.00 | 3.62 |
| Telemachus | 7 | 1 | 37 | 2 | - | 2 | 21.00 | 5.29 |
| Klusener | 8 | 0 | 47 | 0 | 2 | - | - | 5.88 |
| Cronje | 7.4 | 0 | 36 | 0 | - | - | - | 4.70 |
| Kallis | 7 | 0 | 30 | 1 | - | - | 42.00 | 4.29 |
| Symcox | 9 | 0 | 44 | 0 | 3 | - | - | 4.89 |
Notes
--> A Ranatunga passed 6500 runs in ODI matches when he reached 71
--> A Ranatunga passed 7000 runs in List A matches when he reached 24
Attendance 16,800
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