2015 ICC Cricket World Cup QF 1 Sri Lanka Vs South Africa @ SCG Wednesday March 18,2015

 

 

Sri Lanka's journey to the QF's from Pool A

 

1)Feb 14,2015 Match 1 NZ Vs SL - NZ 331/6 and SL 233/10 NZ won by 98 Runs
2)Feb 22,2015  Match 11 Afghanistan Vs SL - Afghans 232/10 and SL 236/6 in 48.2 Overs - SL won by 4 wickets
3)Feb 26,2015 Match 17 Bangladesh Vs SL - Bangladesh 240 and SL 332/1 - SL won by 92 Runs
4)March 01,2015 Match 21 England Vs SL - England 309/6 and SL 312/1 - SL won by 9 wickets
5)March 08,2015 Match 31Australia Vs SL - Australia376/9 and SL 312/9 - Australia won by 64 Runs
6)March 11,2015 Match 34 Scotland Vs SL -Scots 213 and SL 363/9 - SL won by 148 Runs

SL Vs SA - Head - to - Head
1.7 of the last 8 ODI's between these teams have been won by the team that batted first. All eight of these matches were played in Sri Lanka

2. The last 16 ODIs between South Africa and Sri Lanka have produced eight wins apiece. Mahela Jayawardene averages 22.9 in the 42 ODI innings he has played against South Africa, his second lowest average against the 18 teams he has faced.

3. Lasith Malinga recorded the only instance in ODIs of a bowler taking four wickets in four balls in the 2007 ICC Cricket World Cup clash between these teams, a one-wicket victory for South Africa.

4. Malinga has taken 92 ODI wickets bowled, the joint-fifth most with Anil Kumble. Wasim Akram (176) has the most.

5. Kumar Sangakkara needs one stumping to become the first wicket-keeper to take 100 ODI stumpings

6. Sangakkara needs four runs to become the seventh player to score 500 runs in a World Cup tournament. He has four centuries in this tournament, the most recorded in a single World Cup.

7. AB de Villiers (1,142 in 21 innings) needs seven runs to pass Jacques Kallis (1,148 in 32) as South Africa's leading World Cup run-scorer.

8. Tillakaratne Dilshan has scored 148 runs off the 144 balls Morne Morkel has bowled to him in ODIs and been dismissed twice.

9.Total Played(ODIs): 59
South Africa: 28
Sri Lanka: 29
Tied: 1
No Result: 1

Last five meetings:
July 28, 2013, Pallekele, Sri Lanka won by eight wickets
July 31, 2013, Colombo, Sri Lanka won by 128 runs
July 06, 2014, Colombo, South Africa won by 75 runs
July 09, 2014, Pallekele, Sri Lanka won by 87 runs
July 12, 2014, Hambantota, South Africa won by 82 runs

In World Cup
Played: 4
South Africa: 2
Sri Lanka: 1
Tied: 1
March 02, 1992, Wellington, Sri Lanka won by three wickets
May 19, 1999, Northampton, South Africa won by 89 runs
March 03, 2003, Durban, Match tied
March 28, 2007, Guyana, South Africa won by one wicket


Sri Lanka won the toss and chose to bat first

Squads

Sri Lanka

Kushal Perera

Tillakaratne Dilshan

Kumar Sangakkara (W)

Mahela Jayawardene

Angelo Mathews (C)

Lahiru Thirimanne

Thisara Perera

Nuwan Kulasekara

Tharindu Kaushal

Dushmantha Chameera

Lasith Malinga

South Africa

Hashim Amla

Quinton De Kock (W)

Faf Du Plessis

Rilee Rossouw

AB De Villiers (C)

David Miller

JP Duminy

Dale Steyn

Kyle Abbott

Morne Morkel

Imran Tahir

ODI Debut - Tharindu Kaushal (Sri Lanka)


This is the 150th ODI Match being played at the SCG

Sri Lanka Scored 133/10 in 37.2 Overs
Kusal Perera                 03(10 Balls)
Tillakaratne Dilshan        00(7 Balls)
Lahiru Thirimanne          41(48 Balls with 4x5)
Mahela Jayawardene     04(16 Balls)
Angelo Mathews           19(32 Balls with 4x1)
Thisara Perera               00(3 Balls)
Nuwan Kulasekara        01(2 Balls)
Tharindu Kaushal           00(1 Ball)
Kumar SAngakkara       45(96 Balls with 4x3)
Lasith Malinga                03(6 Balls)
Dushmantha Chameera   02*(5 Balls)
Wicket Takers(SA)
Imran Tahir                    4/26(8.2 Overs)
J P Duminy                    3/29(9 Overs)
Dale Steyn                     1/18(7 Overs)
Morne Morkel               1/27(7 Overs)
Kyle Abbott                   1/27(6 Overs(
South Africa Scored 134/1 in 18 Overs
Hasim Amla                   16(23 Balls with 4x1)
Quinton de Kock           78*(57 Balls with 4x12)

Faf du Plesis                  21*(31 Balls)

Wicket Takers(SL)
Lasith Malinga              1/43(6 Overs)
Match Result - South Africa won by 9 wickets
MOM - Imran Tahir for his 4/26


Kumar Sangakkara's score at various points of the innings read 0 off 15, 2 off 27, 6 off 42, 34 off 90 and out for 45 off 96.

 He was the ninth man out with the score at 127, only just past the lowest score in a World Cup quarter-final: West Indies' 112 against Pakistan in 2011

 Kumar Sangakkara became the sixth player to score 500 runs in the World Cup. Sangakkara, who needed four runs to reach the mark ahead of on Wednesday’s match, produced a slow-paced 45-run knock against the Proteas

This match ended South Africa's 23-year wait for a WC knockout win

J P Duminy becomes first Protea to bag WC hat-trick

All-rounder Jean-Paul Duminy became the first South African bowler and ninth overall to notch up a World Cup hat-trick, wrecking the Sri Lankans with his enterprising off-breaks

J P Duminy joined Steven Finn in the hat-trick takers’ list of this edition, finishing with figures of three for 29 from his miserly nine overs -- one of which was a maiden.

The batsmen who fell in succession to Duminy’s guile were Lankan skipper Angelo Mathews (19), Nuwan Kulasekara (1) and debutant Tharindu Kaushal (0)

It all started in the 33rd over when Duminy had Mathews caught by Faf du Plessis off the final ball of the over. He came back in the 35th over to get Kulasekara caught behind wicket before trapping Kaushal plumb in front of the middle stump

J P Duminy  is the first spinner after Pakistan’s Saqlain Mushtaq (1999) to achieve the feat.

The World Cup hat-trick takers’ list features only one Indian in Chetan Sharma, who accomplished the feat way back in 1987 against New Zealand.

List of WC Hat-tricks

 

1987: Chetan Sharma (India) v New Zealand (Ken Rutherford, Ian Smith, Ewen Chatfield)
1999: Saqlain Mushtaq (Pakistan) v Zimbabwe (Henry Olonga, Adam Huckle, Pommie Mbangwa)
2003: Chaminda Vaas (Sri Lanka) v Bangladesh (Hannan Sarkar, Mohammad Ashraful, Ehsanul Haque)
2003: Brett Lee (Australia) v Kenya (Kennedy Otieno, Brijal Patel, David Obuya)
2007: Lasith Malinga (Sri Lanka) v South Africa (Shaun Pollock, Andrew Hall, Jacques Kallis, Makhaya Ntini)
2011: Kemar Roach (West Indies) v Netherlands (Pieter Seelaar, Bernard Loots, Berend Westdijk)
2011: Lasith Malinga (Sri Lanka) v Kenya (Tanmay Mishra, Peter Ongondo, Shem Ngoche)
2015: Steven Finn (England) v Australia (Brad Haddin, Glenn Maxwell, Mitchell Johnson) (Reuters)

South Africa finally won their first World Cup knockout match at the sixth time of asking when they beat Sri Lanka by 9 wickets in th QF @ SCG

Below is South Africa's record in knockout matches at cricket's showpiece tournament:

1992: Lost semifinal to England

1996: Lost quarterfinal to West Indies

1999: Tied semifinal with Australia, exited World Cup on net run-rate

2007: Lost semifinal to Australia

2011: Lost quarterfinal to New Zealand

2015: Won quarterfinal against Sri Lanka.

Note: In 2003, co-hosts South Africa failed to get out of the first group stage after a rain-affected tie with Sri Lanka in Durban.