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| Sangakara rejoices after fall of de Villiers's wicket |
Colombo : Sri Lanka has beaten South Africa in first one day international by huge margin of 180 runs here as they were unable to chase the target of 320 runs were all out on 140 runs in 31.5 overs.
The South African started chasing a huge target of 320 runs with their 2 opening wickets down with in first 5 overs and does not recover at all to collapse on 140 runs.
AN Paterson and RJ Paterson were top scorers from South African side by scoring 29 runs each.
Sri Lankan bowlers Herath and Perera took 3 wickets each.
Snagakara of Sri Lanka was given man of the match by scoring 169 runs.
South African team is playing with out Hashim Aamla.