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Road Safety World Series 2021: Sri Lanka Legends beat SA Legends by 8 wickets; to meet India in final

Sri Lanka Legends defeated South Africa Legends by 8 wickets in a one-sided semi-final clash in the Road Safety World Series T20 at the Shaheed Veer Narayan Singh International Cricket Stadium on Friday (March 19).

Road Safety World Series 2021: Sri Lanka Legends beat SA Legends by 8 wickets; to meet India in final

Raipur, March 19: Sri Lanka Legends defeated South Africa Legends by 8 wickets in a one-sided semi-final clash in the Road Safety World Series T20 at the Shaheed Veer Narayan Singh International Cricket Stadium on Friday (March 19). With this emphatic win, the Sri Lanka Legends have set up the summit clash with India Legends on Sunday (March 21).

And, it was only after Tillakaratne Dilshan's outfit easily got the better of Jonty Rhodes's South Africa Legends by eight wickets. Sri Lankans were always favourite sides on paper and they performed up to their potential as they romped home to a comfortable win, chasing down a below-par 126-run target with 16 balls to spare.

Riding on No.4 batsman Chinthaka Jayasinghe's 47* (25b, 8x4, 1x6) and southpaw Upul Tharanga's 39* (44b, 5x4) partnership of 70 runs for the third wicket, Sri Lanka finished at 129 for the loss of two wickets in 17.2 overs.

Earlier, captain and in-form Dilshan scored 18 and Sanath Jayasuriya, too, got as many runs. Earlier Sri Lanka captain Tillakaratne Dilshan won the toss and elected to field first. The move clicked as the Lankans folded out South Africans for a low score of 125 in 20 overs.

Seamer Nuwan Kulasekara was the wrecker-in-chief for the Sri Lankans with five wickets for 25 runs. For South Africans, it was opener Morne van Wyk who starred with a half-century from 57 balls including eight boundaries.

South Africa began on a positive note with Van Wyk giving a solid start, but the Lankans immediately put the brake on African surge as Kulasekara got his in-form partner Andrew Puttick for a duck.

In need of a big partnership, the South Africans got one in Van Wyk and Alviro Petersen. The duo wasn't aggressive, but didn't shy away from getting that odd boundary or rotate strike before Farveez Maharoof got the scalp of Petersen as the scoreboard read 65/2.

Later, Van Wyk got his maiden half-century of the tournament before Sri Lankan legend Sanath Jayasuriya got him trapped in front of the wickets for 53.

Once the opener went home, it was all formality for Sri Lanka. Other than Van Wyk and Petersen, only Justin Kemp could get into the double-digit score as the rest of the South African batsman fell for single digits. South Africa lost its seven wickets for 29 runs, all thanks to Kulasekara's super spell.

Brief scores: South Africa 125 all out in 20 overs (Morne van Wyk 23, Alviro Petersen 27; Nuwan Kulasekara 5/25) lost to Sri Lanka Legends 129/2 in 17.2 overs (Upul Tharanga 39, Chinthaka Jayasinghe 47, Tillakratne Dilshan 18, Sanath Jayasuriya 18) by 8 wickets.

Story first published: Friday, March 19, 2021, 22:39 [IST]
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