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| Sangakara of Sri Lanka, readies himself to scoop the ball (Photo ESPN) |
Colombo : Dominant Sri Lanka beat South Africa by 128 runs in last one day match to take the five match series by 4-1here in Premadasa Stadium Colombo.
Sri Lanka won the toss and choose to bat and scored 307/4 wickets, Dilshan, Sangakara and Thirimanne were top scorer by scoring 99, 75 and 68 respectively.
South African reply was not well as their top batting order collapses completely except D Villiers who scored 51 runs, eventually they were all out on 179 in 43.5 overs.
Both Sri Lankan bowlers Lakmal and Medis, took three wickets each.
Toss : Sri Lanka, who decided to bat first
Player of the match : TM Dilshan (Sri Lanka)
Player of Series : Sangakara (Sri Lanka)
Series : Sri Lanka won the five match series by 4-1