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| Venue | St George's Park, Port Elizabeth on 9th, 10th December 2000 (3-day match) |
| Balls per over | 6 |
| Toss | Sri Lankans won the toss and decided to field |
| Result | Sri Lankans won by 8 wickets |
| Umpires | WA Diedricks, KH Hurter |
| TV umpire | M Gajjar |
| Close of play day 1 | Sri Lankans (1) 253/9 (Zoysa 19*, Muralitharan 2*; 72 overs) |
| Eastern Province first innings | Runs | Balls | Mins | 4s | 6s | ||
| MR Benfield | c Muralitharan b Zoysa | 0 | 8 | 11 | - | - | |
| *CC Bradfield | b Fernando | 4 | 4 | 6 | 1 | - | |
| JDC Bryant | c Jayawardene b Zoysa | 37 | 53 | 70 | 3 | 2 | |
| DJ Callaghan | b Fernando | 9 | 14 | 18 | - | - | |
| JM Kemp | run out | 0 | 9 | 18 | - | - | |
| MW Creed | b Muralitharan | 6 | 20 | 31 | 1 | - | |
| RJ Peterson | run out | 1 | 4 | 13 | - | - | |
| S Abrahams | lbw b Muralitharan | 9 | 38 | 36 | 1 | - | |
| +DW Murray | not out | 8 | 23 | 34 | 1 | - | |
| M Hayward | b Fernando | 1 | 4 | 5 | - | - | |
| GJP Kruger | c Kaluwitharana b Fernando | 0 | 3 | 2 | - | - | |
| Extras | (12 lb, 5 w) | 17 | |||||
| Total | (all out, 30 overs) | 92 | |||||
| Fall of wickets: | |||||||
| 1-9 (Bradfield), 2-13 (Benfield), 3-22 (Callaghan), 4-28 (Kemp), 5-69 (Bryant), 6-69 (Creed), 7-71 (Peterson), 8-91 (Abrahams), 9-92 (Hayward), 10-92 (Kruger, 30 ov) | |||||||
| Sri Lankans bowling | Overs | Mdns | Runs | Wkts | Wides | No-Balls | |
| Zoysa | 8 | 2 | 16 | 2 | - | - | |
| Fernando | 11 | 6 | 27 | 4 | 5 | - | |
| Wickramasinghe | 5 | 1 | 28 | 0 | - | - | |
| Muralitharan | 6 | 2 | 9 | 2 | - | - | |
| Sri Lankans first innings | Runs | Balls | Mins | 4s | 6s | ||
| MS Atapattu | c Murray b Kruger | 42 | 68 | 82 | 6 | - | |
| *ST Jayasuriya | c Callaghan b Hayward | 38 | 57 | 78 | 7 | - | |
| KC Sangakkara | c Peterson b Kruger | 37 | 80 | 105 | 5 | 1 | |
| DPMD Jayawardene | lbw b Kemp | 87 | 145 | 184 | 11 | 2 | |
| RP Arnold | lbw b Kruger | 0 | 1 | 1 | - | - | |
| TM Dilshan | c Kemp b Kruger | 0 | 1 | 1 | - | - | |
| +RS Kaluwitharana | c Murray b Creed | 15 | 30 | 56 | 2 | - | |
| DNT Zoysa | not out | 27 | 34 | 57 | 5 | - | |
| GP Wickramasinghe | b Kemp | 0 | 1 | 1 | - | - | |
| CRD Fernando | c Murray b Kemp | 4 | 13 | 9 | - | - | |
| M Muralitharan | c Benfield b Kemp | 7 | 14 | 21 | 1 | - | |
| Extras | (2 b, 1 lb, 4 nb, 2 w) | 9 | |||||
| Total | (all out, 73.2 overs) | 266 | |||||
| Fall of wickets: | |||||||
| 1-85 (Jayasuriya), 2-85 (Atapattu), 3-176 (Sangakkara), 4-176 (Arnold), 5-176 (Dilshan), 6-224 (Kaluwitharana), 7-232 (Jayawardene), 8-232 (Wickramasinghe), 9-236 (Fernando), 10-266 (Muralitharan, 73.2 ov) | |||||||
| Eastern Province bowling | Overs | Mdns | Runs | Wkts | Wides | No-Balls | |
| Hayward | 11 | 0 | 60 | 1 | 2 | - | |
| Kemp | 21.2 | 4 | 59 | 4 | - | - | |
| Kruger | 20 | 5 | 76 | 4 | - | - | |
| Creed | 10 | 2 | 26 | 1 | - | 4 | |
| Peterson | 7 | 1 | 24 | 0 | - | - | |
| Abrahams | 4 | 1 | 18 | 0 | - | - | |
| Eastern Province second innings | Runs | Balls | Mins | 4s | 6s | ||
| *CC Bradfield | lbw b Wickramasinghe | 30 | 75 | 88 | 3 | - | |
| MR Benfield | c Kaluwitharana b Fernando | 22 | 15 | 34 | 4 | 1 | |
| JDC Bryant | c Dilshan b Fernando | 50 | 95 | 116 | 8 | - | |
| DJ Callaghan | c Dilshan b Wickramasinghe | 0 | 3 | 6 | - | - | |
| JM Kemp | c Kaluwitharana b Zoysa | 1 | 30 | 29 | - | - | |
| MW Creed | not out | 40 | 74 | 142 | 4 | - | |
| RJ Peterson | c Jayasuriya b Fernando | 23 | 39 | 33 | 4 | - | |
| S Abrahams | lbw b Muralitharan | 5 | 14 | 14 | 1 | - | |
| +DW Murray | c Dilshan b Muralitharan | 32 | 63 | 63 | 2 | 1 | |
| M Hayward | b Muralitharan | 0 | 6 | 7 | - | - | |
| GJP Kruger | st Kaluwitharana b Muralitharan | 0 | 3 | 2 | - | - | |
| Extras | (2 b, 6 lb, 3 nb) | 11 | |||||
| Total | (all out, 69 overs) | 214 | |||||
| Fall of wickets: | |||||||
| 1-47 (Benfield), 2-81 (Bradfield), 3-85 (Callaghan), 4-105 (Kemp), 5-114 (Bryant), 6-147 (Peterson), 7-164 (Abrahams), 8-214 (Murray), 9-214 (Hayward), 10-214 (Kruger, 69 ov) | |||||||
| Sri Lankans bowling | Overs | Mdns | Runs | Wkts | Wides | No-Balls | |
| Zoysa | 14 | 3 | 55 | 1 | - | - | |
| Fernando | 16 | 2 | 76 | 3 | - | 2 | |
| Muralitharan | 28 | 11 | 41 | 4 | - | - | |
| Wickramasinghe | 11 | 4 | 34 | 2 | - | - | |
| Sri Lankans second innings | Runs | Balls | Mins | 4s | 6s | ||
| MS Atapattu | not out | 19 | 19 | 30 | 2 | - | |
| *ST Jayasuriya | c Bradfield b Kemp | 0 | 6 | 9 | - | - | |
| KC Sangakkara | c Peterson b Kemp | 6 | 8 | 10 | 1 | - | |
| DPMD Jayawardene | not out | 14 | 7 | 9 | 3 | - | |
| RP Arnold | did not bat | ||||||
| TM Dilshan | did not bat | ||||||
| +RS Kaluwitharana | did not bat | ||||||
| DNT Zoysa | did not bat | ||||||
| GP Wickramasinghe | did not bat | ||||||
| CRD Fernando | did not bat | ||||||
| M Muralitharan | did not bat | ||||||
| Extras | (1 b, 1 lb) | 2 | |||||
| Total | (2 wickets, 6.4 overs) | 41 | |||||
| Fall of wickets: | |||||||
| 1-11 (Jayasuriya), 2-23 (Sangakkara) | |||||||
| Eastern Province bowling | Overs | Mdns | Runs | Wkts | Wides | No-Balls | |
| Kemp | 3.4 | 1 | 15 | 2 | - | - | |
| Kruger | 3 | 0 | 24 | 0 | - | - | |