South Africa beats Sri Lanka, makes India’s path easier, will get advantage in WTC

New Delhi. Continuing its excellent form, South Africa has once again reached number one in the WTC points table. The South African team defeated Sri Lanka by 109 runs in the second test match on Monday. This is his/her fifth consecutive victory. By defeating Sri Lanka by 109 runs, South Africa has won the Test series 2-0. India and Australia can benefit from this victory of the African team.

The host took the lead in the first innings
The second test match between South Africa and Sri Lanka was played between 5 and 9 December. Batting first, host South Africa scored 358 runs. After this, he/she bowled out Sri Lanka for 328 runs and took a lead of 30 runs in the first innings. South Africa scored 317 runs in the second innings. In this way Sri Lanka got the target of 348 runs to win.

Lost last 5 wickets for 19 runs
By the fourth day of the match, Sri Lanka had scored 205 runs for 5 wickets. Its captains Dhananjay de Silva and Kusal Mendis were unbeaten after scoring 39-39 runs. Sri Lanka had to score 143 runs on the fifth day to win. South Africa needed 5 wickets to win. The match was fifty-fifty and everything depended on the fifth day’s play, in which South Africa won. African bowlers did not allow both Dhananjay de Silva (50) and Kusal Mendis (46) to stay at the crease for long on the fifth day. As soon as these two were out, the other batsmen were also out soon. Sri Lanka lost its sixth wicket at the score of 219 and within a short time was all out for 238 runs.

India-Australia can benefit
Losing both the Tests to South Africa means that even if Sri Lanka wins its next series 2-0, it cannot achieve more than 53.85 percent points in the WTC points table. This situation is good for India and Australia. India and Australia are struggling to remain in the top-2 in the points table along with South Africa.