All the major stats and facts from the Third ODI match between Sri Lanka and South Africa in Pallekele.
South Africa continued their dominance over Sri Lanka as they beat the hosts by 78 runs in third ODI match at Pallekele and sealed the series with two games to go. On an easy batting track, Sri Lanka asked South Africa to bat first and the visitors posted a massive total of 363/7 on the board with the help of debutant Reeza Hendricks' hundred and fifties from Hashim Amla (59), JP Duminy (92) and David Miller (51).
In response, Sri Lankan openers once again failed to give a good start and top order batsmen couldn't convert their starts into big scores except Dhananjaya de Silva who scored 84 runs off just 66 balls and in the 46th over Sri Lanka got all out for 285 runs and lost the game as well as series. Reeza Hendricks was named Man of the Match for his 102-run knock.
All the major stats and facts from the Third ODI match between Sri Lanka and South Africa in Pallekele :
2 - Faf du Plessis became the second South African captain to win an ODI series in Sri Lanka after AB de Villiers who captained South Africa in their first ever ODI series win in Sri Lanka in 2014.
3 - Reeza Hendricks became the third South African player to score a hundred on ODI debut. Colin Ingram and Temba Bavuma are other two South Africans who scored hundreds on debut in ODIs.
10 - This was Sri Lanka's 10th consecutive loss in ODIs at home. Since their last ODI win against Zimbabwe in July 2017 they lost last 2 ODIs of that series, 5 ODIs against India and now have lost first 3 ODIs of this series against South Africa.
11 - This was South Africa's 11th consecutive win over Sri Lanka in ODIs. Last time they lost an ODI to Sri Lanka was at Pallekele way back in 2014.
88 - Reeza Hendricks' 88 balls hundred is the fastest by any player on ODI debut. The previous fastest hundred on ODI debut was scored by Mark Chapman in 103 balls for Hong Kong against UAE in 2015.
363/7 - South Africa's total of 363/7 is their highest total in ODIs against Sri Lanka in Sri Lanka. The previous highest total was 339/5 at Hambantota in 2014.
1023 - Hashim Amla (1023 runs) became the second South African batsman to score 1000 ODIs runs against Sri Lanka after Jacques Kallis (1434).