Tristan Stubbs returned not out after scoring 36 runs.
The second Test is being played between South Africa and Sri Lanka at the St. George Park Stadium in Kebera. On the third day of the match on Saturday, South Africa has taken a lead of 221 runs. The team's score till stumps was 191/3.
In the first innings, South Africa scored 358 runs and Sri Lanka scored 328 runs. Ryan Rickelton and Kyle Varian scored centuries from South Africa. Pathum Nissanka from Sri Lanka scored the highest score of 89 runs. The fourth day's play will start at 1:30 pm Indian time.
Centuries by 2 African players in the first innings South Africa won the toss and chose batting. Rickelton scored 101 runs and Varian scored 105 runs for the team. Captain Temba Bavuma was out after scoring 78 runs, while Aiden Markram scored 20 and Kagiso Rabada scored 23 runs. Rest of the players could not even cross the 10 run mark.
Lahiru Kumara took 4 wickets and Asitha Fernando took 3 wickets from Sri Lanka. Vishwa Fernando got 2 wickets and Dhananjay de Silva got 1 wicket. South Africa scored 358 runs in the first innings.
Temba Bavuma scored 78 runs.
Strong start for Sri Lanka's top order Sri Lanka made a strong start in the first innings. Dimuth Karunaratne scored 20, Dinesh Chandimal 44, Angelo Mathews 44 and Kamindu Mendis scored 48 runs, taking the team close to 300. During this period, Nissanka remained at one end, although he was out on the score of 89 runs before completing his century.
Sri Lanka's score at one time was 268/4, the team lost the last 6 wickets for 60 runs. Sri Lanka was all out after scoring 328 runs and the team was behind by 30 runs in the first innings. Dan Patterson took 5 wickets from South Africa. Keshav Maharaj and Marco Jansson got 2 wickets each, while Rabada took 1 wicket.
Dan Patterson took 5 wickets.
South Africa took a lead of 221 runs After getting a lead of 30 runs in the first innings, South Africa made a steady start. Markram scored a fifty, but he was out after scoring 55 runs. In front of him, Tony DeGeorge was out after scoring 19 runs and Ryan Rickelton after scoring 24 runs. Temba Bavuma remained not out after scoring 48 runs and Tristan Stubbs scored 36 runs.
South Africa scored 191 runs and took a lead of 221 runs in the second innings. Prabath Jayasuriya took 2 wickets from Sri Lanka. Vishwa Fernando also got one wicket. South Africa leads the series 1-0 after winning the first test by 233 runs.
Prabath Jayasuriya has taken 2 wickets.
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