Srilanka has won the 4th ODi match against the South
African side played at the Pallekele International Cricket Stadium. Now the Sri
Lankan side is leading the series with 3-1. South Africa won the toss and elected
to bat first. But they lost their first wicket at just 17 runs. But after that
Amla and Duminy played very well and both of them scored 77 and 97 runs
respectively. After them none of the player could able to contribute more and
wicket fell very quickly. The whole team got out and they were not even able to
play the whole 50 over. Ajanta Mendis from the Srilanka side had a very devastating
bowling attack and he took 4 crucial wickets. On the other hand, Malinga too
did bowled very well and he took three wicket. So South Africa gave a total
score of 238.
Now came the turn of the Sri Lanka team to bat and they did
it very good. TM dilshan the star batsman of Sri Lanka scored 115 runs and that
not out. Along with Dilshan, Sangakkara also contribute to the team in a big
way and scored 91 after being out by Morkel. The bowling attack of the South African
team was not good and they gave too much extra runs also. So now Srilanka has
taken over this series.