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| Venue | Springbok Park, Bloemfontein on 19th April 1998 (50-over match) |
| Balls per over | 6 |
| Toss | South Africa won the toss and decided to field |
| Result | South Africa won by 5 wickets |
| Points | South Africa 2; Sri Lanka 0 |
| Umpires | DF Becker, DL Orchard |
| TV umpire | WA Diedricks |
| Referee | JR Reid |
| Player of the Match | R Telemachus |
| Sri Lanka innings | Runs | Balls | Mins | 4s | 6s | S-Rate | |
| ST Jayasuriya | c Gibbs b Telemachus | 7 | 16 | 16 | 1 | - | 43.75 |
| +RS Kaluwitharana | c Kirsten b Telemachus | 11 | 9 | 24 | 1 | 1 | 122.22 |
| MS Atapattu | b Pollock | 4 | 10 | 15 | 1 | - | 40.00 |
| PA de Silva | c Boucher b Pollock | 0 | 10 | 17 | - | - | 0.00 |
| *A Ranatunga | c Boucher b Donald | 13 | 37 | 49 | 2 | - | 35.14 |
| RS Mahanama | c Boucher b Cronje | 22 | 36 | 74 | 3 | - | 61.11 |
| HDPK Dharmasena | c Kallis b Pollock | 14 | 50 | 51 | 1 | - | 28.00 |
| UDU Chandana | c Kirsten b Kallis | 5 | 14 | 23 | - | - | 35.71 |
| WPUJC Vaas | not out | 10 | 22 | 31 | - | 1 | 45.45 |
| GP Wickramasinghe | c Cronje b Kallis | 0 | 8 | 15 | - | - | 0.00 |
| M Muralitharan | c Pollock b Symcox | 0 | 5 | 6 | - | - | 0.00 |
| Extras | (8 lb, 1 nb, 10 w) | 19 | |||||
| Total | (all out, 36 overs) | 105 | |||||
| Fall of wickets: | |||||||
| 1-14 (Jayasuriya, 3.3 ov), 2-23 (Kaluwitharana, 5.1 ov), 3-23 (Atapattu, 6.4 ov), 4-26 (de Silva, 8.3 ov), 5-50 (Ranatunga, 16.5 ov), 6-71 (Mahanama, 25.3 ov), 7-93 (Dharmasena, 29.2 ov), 8-95 (Chandana, 30.6 ov), 9-104 (Wickramasinghe, 34.3 ov), 10-105 (Muralitharan, 36 ov) | |||||||
| South Africa bowling | Overs | Mdns | Runs | Wkts | Wides | No-Balls | S-Rate | Econ |
| Pollock | 8 | 2 | 21 | 3 | - | 1 | 16.00 | 2.62 |
| Telemachus | 8 | 1 | 23 | 2 | 3 | - | 24.00 | 2.88 |
| Donald | 6 | 0 | 12 | 1 | 2 | - | 36.00 | 2.00 |
| Cronje | 6 | 1 | 23 | 1 | - | - | 36.00 | 3.83 |
| Kallis | 6 | 1 | 16 | 2 | 5 | - | 18.00 | 2.67 |
| Symcox | 2 | 0 | 2 | 1 | - | - | 12.00 | 1.00 |
| South Africa innings | Runs | Balls | Mins | 4s | 6s | S-Rate | |
| G Kirsten | b Wickramasinghe | 0 | 5 | 8 | - | - | 0.00 |
| HH Gibbs | c Kaluwitharana b Wickramasinghe | 10 | 22 | 30 | 1 | - | 45.45 |
| JH Kallis | c Atapattu b Muralitharan | 39 | 51 | 71 | 4 | 1 | 76.47 |
| DJ Cullinan | c and b Dharmasena | 18 | 43 | 67 | 1 | - | 41.86 |
| +MV Boucher | run out (Vaas) | 5 | 9 | 8 | 1 | - | 55.56 |
| JN Rhodes | not out | 23 | 24 | 26 | 1 | - | 95.83 |
| SM Pollock | not out | 2 | 7 | 15 | - | - | 28.57 |
| *WJ Cronje | did not bat | ||||||
| PL Symcox | did not bat | ||||||
| R Telemachus | did not bat | ||||||
| AA Donald | did not bat | ||||||
| Extras | (2 lb, 1 nb, 6 w) | 9 | |||||
| Total | (5 wickets, 26.3 overs) | 106 | |||||
| Fall of wickets: | |||||||
| 1-7 (Kirsten, 1.4 ov), 2-24 (Gibbs, 5.4 ov), 3-74 (Kallis, 18.2 ov), 4-80 (Boucher, 20.2 ov), 5-91 (Cullinan, 23.1 ov) | |||||||
| Sri Lanka bowling | Overs | Mdns | Runs | Wkts | Wides | No-Balls | S-Rate | Econ |
| Vaas | 5 | 0 | 30 | 0 | 5 | 1 | - | 6.00 |
| Wickramasinghe | 8 | 2 | 22 | 2 | 1 | - | 24.00 | 2.75 |
| Muralitharan | 8.3 | 1 | 34 | 1 | - | 1 | 51.00 | 4.00 |
| Dharmasena | 5 | 0 | 18 | 1 | - | - | 30.00 | 3.60 |