SA v SL: South Africa created history by winning the T20 series, defeating Sri Lanka at home
South Africa created history by defeating Sri Lanka by 10 wickets in the third T20 International on Tuesday. With this, the visiting team defeated Sri Lanka 3-0 in the three-match T20I series and made a clean sweep. South Africa has become the first team in the world to clean sweep the three-match T20I series against Sri Lanka at home. The hero of South Africa's victory was Quinton de Kock, who scored an unbeaten 59.
De Kock was given the man of the match for his brilliant innings. Chasing a target of 121 runs, South Africa easily achieved this target in 14.4 overs without losing any wicket. There was an unbeaten 121-run partnership between De Kock and Hendrix, who came to open from South Africa. Hendrix scored 56 not out. This is the highest partnership for any wicket for South Africa in the T20 series against Sri Lanka. De Kock was also awarded Man of the Series for his brilliant innings.
Earlier, winning the toss, Sri Lanka decided to bat. Sri Lankan team could score only 120 runs in the allotted 20 overs for the loss of 8 wickets. Opener Kusal Perera scored the highest 39 runs for Sri Lanka. In the end, Karunaratne scored an unbeaten 24 off 19 balls. Thanks to this the hosts were able to reach this score. For South Africa, I took two wickets from Bjorn Fortun and pacer Kagiso Rabada. Earlier, Sri Lanka had won the three-match ODI series 2-1.
