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| Venue | Sinhalese Sports Club Ground, Colombo on 11th July 2000 (50-over match) |
| Balls per over | 6 |
| Toss | Sri Lanka won the toss and decided to field |
| Result | Sri Lanka won by 8 wickets |
| Points | Sri Lanka 2; South Africa 0 |
| Umpires | BC Cooray, EAR de Silva |
| TV umpire | TH Wijewardene |
| Referee | JR Reid |
| Player of the Match | DA Gunawardene |
| South Africa innings | Runs | Balls | Mins | 4s | 6s | S-Rate | |
| G Kirsten | b Zoysa | 3 | 12 | 13 | - | - | 25.00 |
| L Klusener | c Atapattu b Wickramasinghe | 0 | 1 | 5 | - | - | 0.00 |
| AJ Hall | c Jayawardene b Dharmasena | 32 | 34 | 61 | 5 | - | 94.12 |
| JH Kallis | not out | 83 | 148 | 188 | 4 | 3 | 56.08 |
| DJ Cullinan | run out (Atapattu->Sangakkara) | 8 | 10 | 17 | 1 | - | 80.00 |
| JN Rhodes | run out (Jayawardene->Sangakkara) | 5 | 10 | 14 | - | - | 50.00 |
| +MV Boucher | c Jayawardene b Chandana | 8 | 23 | 21 | - | - | 34.78 |
| *SM Pollock | lbw b Chandana | 0 | 3 | 2 | - | - | 0.00 |
| N Boje | st Sangakkara b Dharmasena | 19 | 46 | 56 | 1 | - | 41.30 |
| M Hayward | run out (Jayawardene->Dharmasena) | 0 | 3 | 7 | - | - | 0.00 |
| M Ntini | b Jayasuriya | 1 | 10 | 11 | - | - | 10.00 |
| Extras | (1 lb, 4 nb, 3 w) | 8 | |||||
| Total | (all out, 49.2 overs) | 167 | |||||
| Fall of wickets: | |||||||
| 1-0 (Klusener, 1.1 ov), 2-4 (Kirsten, 2.4 ov), 3-64 (Hall, 13.1 ov), 4-84 (Cullinan, 16.6 ov), 5-94 (Rhodes, 20.4 ov), 6-110 (Boucher, 27.1 ov), 7-110 (Pollock, 27.4 ov), 8-148 (Boje, 44.4 ov), 9-158 (Hayward, 46.2 ov), 10-167 (Ntini, 49.2 ov) | |||||||
| Sri Lanka bowling | Overs | Mdns | Runs | Wkts | Wides | No-Balls | S-Rate | Econ |
| Zoysa | 7 | 2 | 23 | 1 | 1 | - | 42.00 | 3.29 |
| Wickramasinghe | 6 | 0 | 41 | 1 | - | 3 | 36.00 | 6.83 |
| Dharmasena | 10 | 0 | 37 | 2 | - | - | 30.00 | 3.70 |
| Muralitharan | 10 | 0 | 32 | 0 | 1 | 1 | - | 3.20 |
| Chandana | 10 | 1 | 20 | 2 | - | - | 30.00 | 2.00 |
| Jayasuriya | 6.2 | 2 | 13 | 1 | 1 | - | 38.00 | 2.05 |
| Sri Lanka innings | Runs | Balls | Mins | 4s | 6s | S-Rate | |
| *ST Jayasuriya | c Ntini b Pollock | 1 | 9 | 9 | - | - | 11.11 |
| DA Gunawardene | lbw b Boje | 87 | 75 | 96 | 16 | - | 116.00 |
| MS Atapattu | not out | 44 | 62 | 109 | 5 | - | 70.97 |
| DPMD Jayawardene | not out | 14 | 20 | 21 | 1 | - | 70.00 |
| RP Arnold | did not bat | ||||||
| +KC Sangakkara | did not bat | ||||||
| HDPK Dharmasena | did not bat | ||||||
| UDU Chandana | did not bat | ||||||
| GP Wickramasinghe | did not bat | ||||||
| M Muralitharan | did not bat | ||||||
| DNT Zoysa | did not bat | ||||||
| Extras | (4 b, 9 lb, 1 nb, 8 w) | 22 | |||||
| Total | (2 wickets, 27.3 overs) | 168 | |||||
| Fall of wickets: | |||||||
| 1-11 (Jayasuriya, 2.2 ov), 2-140 (Gunawardene, 21.3 ov) | |||||||
| South Africa bowling | Overs | Mdns | Runs | Wkts | Wides | No-Balls | S-Rate | Econ |
| Pollock | 6 | 0 | 22 | 1 | 1 | - | 36.00 | 3.67 |
| Hayward | 2 | 0 | 26 | 0 | 3 | - | - | 13.00 |
| Ntini | 5 | 0 | 35 | 0 | 2 | - | - | 7.00 |
| Hall | 3 | 0 | 11 | 0 | 2 | 1 | - | 3.67 |
| Boje | 6.3 | 0 | 39 | 1 | - | - | 39.00 | 6.00 |
| Klusener | 4 | 0 | 18 | 0 | - | - | - | 4.50 |
| Cullinan | 1 | 0 | 4 | 0 | - | - | - | 4.00 |