Sri Lanka clinched the two-match series against South Africa 2-0 after winning the second Test by 199 runs.
Theunis de Bruyn scored his first Test century, in his sixth match, to make Sri Lanka work for their series win. The hosts wrapped up victory 40 minutes after lunch on the fourth day, to seal the series 2-0. Sri Lanka’s spinners took all 20 wickets in the match, to finish the series with 37 of South Africa’s 40 wickets.
De Bruyn and Temba Bavuma shared South Africa’s first century stand of the series, and became the only two players in their line-up to bring up fifties on the tour. Their sixth-wicket 123-run partnership is the highest stand by a South African side in the fourth innings in Asia, and took the match into an 11th session, but South Africa lost inside four days.
Sri Lanka 338 (Dhananjaya 60, Gunathilaka 57, Maharaj 9-129) & 275 for 5 decl (Karunaratne 85, Mathews 71, Maharaj 3-154)
South Africa 124 (du Plessis 48, Dananjaya 5-52, Dilruwan 4-40) & 290 (de Bruyn 101, Bavuma 63, Herath 6-98)
Source: ESPNCricinfo
