Sri Lanka vs South Africa Head to Head Record in ODIs | ICC Cricket World Cup 2019 Warm-up matches

Dixit Bhargav | 23/05/2019
Sri Lanka vs South Africa Head to Head Record in ODIs | ICC Cricket World Cup 2019 Warm-up matches

Sri Lanka vs South Africa Head to Head Record in ODIs: The SportsRush presents before you the Head to Head records for SL and SA.

The second warm-up match of the ICC Cricket World Cup 2019 will be played between Sri Lanka and South Africa at Cardiff tomorrow. Both the teams will be eager to get their combination right ahead of their first individual match of the all-important tournament.

Persistent rain in Scotland didn’t aid Sri Lanka in making optimum use of their two-match series against Scotland. Led by a new captain in Dimuth Karunaratne, the island nation has more to gain from these warm-up matches.

Sri Lanka vs South Africa Head to Head Record in ODIs

Total number of matches played: 76

Matches won by SL: 31

Matches won by SA: 43

Matches played in Sri Lanka: 24 (SL 16, SA 7)

Matched played in South Africa: 33 (SL 7, SA 25)

Matched played at neutral venues: 19 (SL 8, SA 11)

Matches played in ICC World Cup: 5 (SL 1, SA 3)

Most runs for SL: 1,789 (Kumar Sangakkara)

Most runs for SA: 1,434 (Jacques Kallis)

Most wickets for SL: 49 (Muttiah Muralitharan)

Most wickets for SA: 51 (Shaun Pollock)

Most catches for SL: 41 (Kumar Sangakkara)

Most catches for SA: 51 (Mark Boucher)

Recent match:

Sri Lanka and South Africa had last met a couple of months ago during Sri Lanka’s tour of South Africa. In the fifth and the last ODI at Cape Town, the hosts had registered victory by 41 runs (D/L Method) to whitewash Sri Lanka 5-0.

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While Sri Lanka gained a significant amount of confidence after whitewashing (2-0) South Africa in South Africa, the latter would be backing their stellar overall record in ODIs.

Post Edited By: Dixit Bhargav
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Dixit Bhargav

Born and brought up in Pathankot, Dixit Bhargav is an engineering and sports management graduate who works as a Cricket Editor at The SportsRush. Having written more than 10,000 articles across more than five years at TSR, his first cricketing memory dates back to 2002 when former India captain Sourav Ganguly had waved his jersey at the historic Lord’s balcony. What followed for an 8-year-old was an instant adulation for both Ganguly and the sport. The optimist in him is waiting for the day when Punjab Kings will win their maiden Indian Premier League title. When not watching cricket, he is mostly found in a cinema hall watching a Punjabi movie.

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