SA vs SL: SA Defeats SL In 1st Test & Creates A Stir In WTC

SA vs SL: In the first match of the two-Test series, South Africa defeated Sri Lanka by 233 runs. With this win, the South African team has taken a 1-0 lead in the series. Marco Jansen did wonders for South Africa by taking 10 wickets in this match.

South Africa played a powerful game in the first of the two Test matches and has won over Sri Lanka by 233 runs. The magnificent win made the South African team sit in the second position next to India in the points table of the World Test Championship.

South Africa, under Marco Jansen’s leadership, ravaged the Sri Lankan batting and bowled out the Sri Lankan team for 42 runs. Jansen became the first left-arm fast bowler to capture ten wickets since South Africa’s re-entry into cricket in 1991.

South Africa’s Temba Bavuma played a crucial knock in SA vs SL

Although South Africa had to fight a lot in batting, but captain Temba Bavuma‘s innings of 70 runs helped South Africa bat first and score 191 runs. After not being able to cross the 200-run mark in the first innings, the Proteas bowlers took the field under heavy pressure on the second day and performed brilliantly.

Sri Lanka was all out for just 42 runs

Sri Lanka’s first innings was exposed to the South African bowlers very badly. In the brilliant 6.5-over spell by left-arm fast bowler Marco Jensen, seven wickets were taken. Kagiso Rabada (1) and Gerald Coetzee (2) helped Jensen and bundled out the visiting team for 42 runs, giving them a lead of 149 runs.

African batsmen did wonders in the second innings

South Africa very strongly batted after bundling out Sri Lanka for just 42 runs in the first innings. In South Africa, for South Africa, it was Tristan Stubbs who with 122 scored the highest partnership for South Africa of 249 runs with his counterpart, and he was accompanied by the player, Bavuma (113) for the fourth wicket against Sri Lanka.

In this manner, both of them broke the record of 192 runs made by AB de Villiers and Jacques Kallis at Newlands in Cape Town in the year 2012. Subsequently, the South African team declared their innings after making 366 runs for 5 wickets and gave a gigantic target of 516 runs to the visiting team.

The efforts of Dinesh Chandimal and Dhananjay de Silva were all in vain

In reply to the 516 runs given by South Africa, despite the best efforts of Dinesh Chandimal and captain Dhananjay de Silva, the visiting team collapsed at 282 runs and the host team got a memorable victory. In this way, the South African team has taken a 1-0 lead in the series with the victory.

After being adjudged Man of the Match after his strong performance, Jansen said, ‘I always dreamed of taking five wickets but never thought I would take 10 wickets, but that’s what you work for. It hasn’t sunk in yet. In the second innings, we felt the pitch was a bit flat, slow ,and low, but taking 11 wickets is like a dream come true.’

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