Delhi, South Africa performed brilliantly and defeated Sri Lanka by a huge margin of 109 runs in the second test match played in Gkebarha. By winning the second Test match of this 2-match Test series played at home, South Africa took another step forward to make it to the final of the ICC World Test Championship 2025 by making a 2-0 clean sweep in the series. Is.
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South Africa won the second test by 109 runs
On the fourth day of the second Test match of the 2-match Test series being played between South Africa and Sri Lanka, the Sri Lankan team was chasing 348 runs and at the end of the day’s play was in a good position at 205 runs for 5 wickets, but On the last day of the match, the Lankan batsmen were quickly defeated by the South African bowlers. Sri Lanka’s entire innings collapsed at the score of 238 runs and South Africa won the match by 109 runs.
Lankan batsmen got entangled in Keshav Maharaj’s spin, collapsed for 238 runs
Sri Lanka needed 143 runs to win on the last day of the match and South Africa needed 5 wickets. Lankan unbeaten batsman Kusal Mendis and captain Dhananjay de Silva came out to play. Both the batsmen together took the team to the score of 219 but after this the Lankan batsmen got trapped in the spin of Keshav Maharaj and within the next 19 runs, the team lost 5 wickets and the entire team was reduced to 238 runs. Dhananjay scored 50 and Mendis scored 46 runs. Whereas Keshav Maharaj took 5 wickets.
Let us tell you that South Africa scored 358 runs in the first innings of this match. In reply, Sri Lanka also scored 328 runs. In the second innings, South Africa scored 317 runs and gave Sri Lanka a target of 348 runs.
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