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The South Africa cricket team toured Sri Lanka in July and August 2018 to play two Tests, five One Day Internationals (ODIs) and a Twenty20 International (T20I) match. [1] [2] [3] Originally, the tour was for three Test matches, but the third match was dropped and replaced by the ODI and T20I fixtures. [4]
The 374 made by Mahela Jayawardene against South Africa in 2006 is the highest individual score by a Sri Lankan cricketer, surpassing the previous best of 340 by Sanath Jayasuriya, which was established in 1997. [10] It is also the fourth-highest individual score in Test cricket. Jayawardene, Jayasuriya and Kumar Sangakkara [319] are the only ...
Player of the series. Dean Elgar (SA) The Sri Lanka cricket team toured South Africa in December 2020 and January 2021 to play two Test matches. [1] [2] The Test series formed part of the inaugural 2019–2021 ICC World Test Championship. [3] [4] Ahead of the tour, Quinton de Kock was named as the Test captain of South Africa's side.
Sri Lanka won the Test series 2–0, [7] their first Test series win in South Africa. [8] It was also the first time that a team from Asia had won a Test series in South Africa. [9] South Africa won the ODI series 5–0. [10] It was the fourth time in less than two years that Sri Lanka had been whitewashed in a five-match ODI series. [11]
Keshav Athmanand Maharaj (born 7 February 1990) is a South African professional cricketer. Maharaj represents the South Africa national team in Tests, One Day International (ODI) and Twenty20 International (T20I) cricket. He is currently the vice-captain of the side in limited overs cricket. Maharaj also captains Durban's Super Giants in the SA20.
During the second Test of Sri Lanka's tour of South Africa in 2011–12, Jayawardene became the ninth player in cricket history, and the first Sri Lankan, to score 10,000 Test runs. [43] At the end of the tour he was reappointed as Sri Lanka's captain, following the resignation of Tillakaratne Dilshan. [44]
Quinton de Kock (SA) The South Africa cricket team toured Sri Lanka in September 2021 to play three One Day International (ODI) and three Twenty20 International (T20I) matches. [1][2] The ODI series formed part of the inaugural 2020–2023 ICC Cricket World Cup Super League. [3][4] The tour was originally scheduled for June 2020 but the COVID ...
Contents. 2021–2023 ICC World Test Championship. Australia (1st title) India. The 2021–2023 ICC World Test Championship was the second edition of the ICC World Test Championship of Test cricket. [ 1 ][ 2 ][ 3 ] It started on 4 August 2021 [ 4 ] and finished with the Final on 7–11 June 2023 at The Oval, London, played between Australia and ...