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Test no. 1528

Sri Lanka in South Africa Test Series - 2nd Test
South Africa v Sri Lanka

2000/01 season

Played at Newlands, Cape Town, on 2,3,4 January 2001 (5-day match)

Result South Africa won by an innings and 229 runs


Sri Lanka 1st innings			R	M	B	4s	6s	SR
	MS Atapattu	c Kallis b Pollock	5	18	19	0	0	26.31
	ST Jayasuriya	c Boucher b Pollock	8	28	12	1	0	66.66
	KC Sangakkara	c Cullinan b Ngam	32	102	76	5	0	42.10
	DPMD Jayawardene	c Kallis b Pollock	0	4	3	0	0	0.00
	RP Arnold	c Kirsten b Pollock	0	6	3	0	0	0.00
	TM Dilshan	c Pollock b Kallis	5	37	24	0	0	20.83
	DA Gunawardene	c Kallis b Ngam	24	69	54	4	0	44.44
	WPUJC Vaas	c Pollock b Ngam	7	46	29	1	0	24.13
	DNT Zoysa	c & b Pollock	10	22	11	0	1	90.90
	CRD Fernando	not out	0	6	1	0	0	0.00
	M Muralitharan	c Ntini b Pollock	0	2	3	0	0	0.00
	Extras	(w 1, nb 3)	4

	Total	(all out; 38.4 overs; 178 mins)	95	(2.45 runs per over)

Fall of wickets1-12 (Atapattu, 4.3 ov), 2-13 (Jayasuriya, 6.3 ov), 3-13 (Jayawardene, 6.6 ov), 4-13 (Arnold, 8.3 ov), 5-33 (Dilshan, 17.2 ov), 6-66 (Sangakkara, 27.5 ov), 7-84 (Gunawardene, 33.3 ov), 8-95 (Vaas, 37.5 ov), 9-95 (Zoysa, 38.1 ov), 10-95 (Muralitharan, 38.4 ov)


Bowling	O	M	R	W	Econ
SM Pollock	13.4	6	30	6	2.19	(1nb)
M Ngam	13	3	26	3	2.00	(2nb)
JH Kallis	6	2	19	1	3.16
M Ntini	6	2	20	0	3.33	(1w)


South Africa 1st innings			R	M	B	4s	6s	SR
	G Kirsten	c Dilshan b Muralitharan	52	157	114	7	0	45.61
	HH Gibbs	c Sangakkara b Vaas	0	3	2	0	0	0.00
	JH Kallis	c Jayawardene b Fernando	49	207	150	6	0	32.66
	DJ Cullinan	run out (Vaas)	112	252	232	12	3	48.27
	ND McKenzie	c & b Arnold	47	132	109	5	1	43.11
	MV Boucher	c Jayawardene b Arnold	92	200	143	10	0	64.33
	L Klusener	c Jayasuriya b Arnold	97	211	143	13	1	67.83
	N Boje	not out	31	109	75	3	0	41.33
	Extras	(lb 5, w 1, nb 18)	24

	Total	(7 wickets dec; 158.2 overs; 637 mins)	504	(3.18 runs per over)

Did not bat

SM Pollock, M Ntini, M Ngam

Fall of wickets1-1 (Gibbs, 0.5 ov), 2-97 (Kirsten, 35.3 ov), 3-130 (Kallis, 49.2 ov), 4-231 (McKenzie, 84.1 ov), 5-317 (Cullinan, 111.5 ov), 6-411 (Boucher, 132.6 ov), 7-504 (Klusener, 158.2 ov)


Bowling	O	M	R	W	Econ
WPUJC Vaas	32	6	109	1	3.40	(8nb)
DNT Zoysa	26	6	80	0	3.07	(1w)
CRD Fernando	25	2	105	1	4.20	(10nb)
M Muralitharan	43	11	99	1	2.30
ST Jayasuriya	7	1	28	0	4.00
RP Arnold	24.2	4	76	3	3.12
DPMD Jayawardene	1	0	2	0	2.00


Sri Lanka 2nd innings			R	M	B	4s	6s	SR
	MS Atapattu	lbw b Pollock	13	59	39	3	0	33.33
	ST Jayasuriya	c Pollock b Ngam	0	7	2	0	0	0.00
	KC Sangakkara	c Boucher b Ngam	11	23	18	2	0	61.11
	DPMD Jayawardene	lbw b Boje	45	89	65	8	0	69.23
	RP Arnold	c Gibbs b Boje	26	74	42	3	0	61.90
	TM Dilshan	c Boucher b Boje	17	31	32	3	0	53.12
	DA Gunawardene	b Ntini	13	22	17	2	0	76.47
	WPUJC Vaas	c & b Boje	38	34	26	6	2	146.15
	DNT Zoysa	c Klusener b Ntini	0	7	5	0	0	0.00
	CRD Fernando	c Boucher b Ngam	5	30	23	0	0	21.73
	M Muralitharan	not out	1	10	7	0	0	14.28
	Extras	(lb 6, w 1, nb 4)	11

	Total	(all out; 45.2 overs; 193 mins)	180	(3.97 runs per over)

Fall of wickets1-4 (Jayasuriya, 1.2 ov), 2-18 (Sangakkara, 7.1 ov), 3-53 (Atapattu, 12.5 ov), 4-99 (Jayawardene, 26.2 ov), 5-112 (Arnold, 30.1 ov), 6-119 (Dilshan, 34.3 ov), 7-131 (Gunawardene, 35.5 ov), 8-135 (Zoysa, 37.4 ov), 9-172 (Vaas, 42.4 ov), 10-180 (Fernando, 45.2 ov)


Bowling	O	M	R	W	Econ
SM Pollock	9	3	29	1	3.22
M Ngam	8.2	1	36	3	4.32	(3nb, 1w)
JH Kallis	7	1	29	0	4.14
M Ntini	11	2	52	2	4.72	(1nb)
N Boje	10	3	28	4	2.80

Toss Sri Lanka, who chose to bat first
Series South Africa led the 3-match series 1-0

Player of the match SM Pollock (South Africa)

Umpires IL Howell and EA Nicholls (West Indies)
TV umpire WA Diedricks
Match referee R Subba Row (England)

Close of play
2 Jan day 1 - South Africa 1st innings 130/2 (JH Kallis 49*, DJ Cullinan 17*, 49 ov)
3 Jan day 2 - South Africa 1st innings 426/6 (L Klusener 44*, N Boje 7*, 139 ov)
4 Jan day 3 - Sri Lanka 2nd innings 180 (45.2 ov) - end of match

Match notes

Umpire IL Howell making his Test Debut as an umpire
4th Umpire - M Gajjar

Day 1
G Kirsten equals WJ Cronje's record of 68 test appearances in this match
Sri Lanka 1st innings:
Sri Lanka 50, 103 minutes, 136 balls
Boucher moves to second of all time fielding dismissals for South Africa
Kirsten moves to top of all time fielding dismissals for a South African non-keeper
Pollock's spell of 13.4-6-30-6 is the best ever return by a South African captain
Sri Lanka's 95 is the lowest ever test score against South Africa
South Africa 1st innings:
South Africa 50, 88 minutes, 119 balls
50 Partnership (Kirsten 29, Kallis 12, Extras 9) 87 minutes, 119 balls
Kirsten 50, 139 minutes, 97 balls, 7 fours
South Africa 100, 162 minutes, 228 balls
Day 1 attendance 13,125

Day 2
50 Partnership (Cullinan 24, McKenzie 23, Extras 3) 70 mins, 94 balls
Cullinan 50, 67 minutes, 102 balls, 6 fours, 1 six
100 Partnership (Cullinan 51, McKenzie 46, Extras 3) 129 minutes, 207 balls
50 Partnership (Cullinan 26, Boucher 24) 84 minutes, 119 balls
Cullinan becomes the second South African to pass 4,000 test runs
Cullinan 100, 263 minutes, 213 balls, 10 fours, 3 sixes
Cullin becomes South Africa's highest test centurion - 12 hundreds
Boucher 50, 127 minutes, 92 balls, 5 fours, 2 sixes
50 Partnership (Boucher 26, Klusener 19, Extras 5) 39 minutes, 45 balls
South Africa 150, 249 minutes, 352 balls
South Africa 200, 314 minutes, 448 balls
South Africa 250, 367 minutes, 556 balls
South Africa 300, 425 minutes, 656 balls
South Africa 350, 475 minutes, 719 balls
South Africa 400, 529 minutes, 781 balls
New Ball taken in the 191st over
Day 2 attendance 11,240

Day 3
L Klusener 50, 130 minutes, 90 balls, 6 fours
South African 450, 583 minutes, 878 balls
50 Partenship (Klusener 33, Boje 20) 46 minutes 70 balls
This is the highest score by South Africa vs Sri Lanka since readmission in 1991
South African 500, 654 minutes, 970 balls
Sri Lanka 2nd innings:
Sri Lanan 50 came in 54 minutes off 73 balls
Sri Lankan 100 came in 125 minutes off 164 balls
Crowd attendance day 3 - 13 085
Sri Lankan 150 came in 182 minutes off 248 balls
Crowd attendance for the match - 37 450

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