T20 World Cup 2024: Sri Lanka vs South Africa Award Winners, Man of The Match, Post Match Presentation, Scorecard and Records

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T20 World Cup 2024, Sri Lanka vs South Africa Award Winners: South Africa emerged victorious in their opening match of the T20 World Cup 2024, defeating Sri Lanka by six wickets in a thrilling encounter. Also read: Most Runs in T20 World Cup | Most Wickets | Most Sixes | Points Table

The Sri Lankan team, batting first, managed to post a challenging total of 150 runs, thanks to a resilient 45-run knock by Kusal Mendis and a late flourish by Dhananjaya de Silva. However, Anrich Nortje's stellar performance with the ball, claiming four wickets for just 22 runs, restricted Sri Lanka's progress.

Chasing 151, South Africa got off to a strong start with openers Quinton de Kock and Temba Bavuma setting the tone. Despite a few hiccups in the middle order, a composed 40-run partnership between David Miller and Heinrich Klaasen guided the Proteas to victory with two overs to spare.

Sri Lanka vs South Africa Award Winners

• Man of the match: Anrich Nortje - 4/7 bowling spell

SL vs SA, T20 World Cup 2024 Match 1: Who Said What

Anrich Nortje | Man of the Match - "Definitely, this will get some momentum going. Tough few days, we've worked hard and it's nice to get some momentum. Very happy, I've been feeling good from the last few games, finally great to have a good game and get a few wickets. The guys did well to restrict them to a low score. Been a while since I got many wickets and was happy to be helpful in the team's win.

"We needed to assess as quickly as possible (on the conditions), it was up and down at times (on the wicket), I needed to hit my straps, hit the wicket hard, it was important that we got some early wickets.

"It was a tough one, practicing on these drop-in wickets is hard, we weren't able to bowl on the pitch on the pre-match day, the plans were simple, that helped me, I just need to get my rhythm better in the next few games."

Aiden Markram | South Africa captain: "Happy with the win. The batting was little up and down, probably speaks to quite a tough wicket and luckily we found ways to score on this. It was a tough one from a batting point of view, we try as much as we can to take the pitch out of it, we can take some learnings from it and we are experienced.

"Lots of different conditions as we move around, fortunately we have our next two here so we know what's coming but it's important to adapt as we go ahead.

"[on Nortje] Was not worried about him but a fantastic day for him, from a mental confidence point of view. He is massively loved in the changeroom, boys are incredibly happy and proud of him, hopefully this kicks off a great World Cup for him."

Wanindu Hasaranga | Sri Lanka captain: "Our batters tried for 160-170. To be honest this was a 120 wicket especially with our bowlers. We went with our strength - our bowling, that's why we batted first. We wanted to put a score and then defend. This is early in the tournament and we have three more games, we want to do much better, especially with our batting talent. If our batting does well, we can finish well."

SL vs SA, T20 World Cup 2024 Match 1 Stats

The run rate of 4.42 in this match is the lowest ever in a T20 World Cup match and second lowest in a T20 International between two Full Member sides. Lowest: 3.83 by NZ (60 in 16.5) vs Ban (62 in 15) in Mirpur, 2021

Most balls faced by a SA batter without hitting a boundary (T20I)

29 Rassie van der Dussen vs Eng Paarl 2020
28 T Stubbs vs SL New York 2024 *
25 G Bodi vs WI Gqeberha 2007
24 AB de Villiers vs Aus Colombo RPS 2012

Lowest Powerplay totals for SA in T20 WCs
24/3 vs Ind Perth 2022
27/2 vs SL New York 2024 *
28/1 vs Eng Trent Bridge 2009
28/2 vs Pak Colombo RPS 2012

Lowest totals by a Full member team in T20 WCs
55 Eng vs WI Dubai 2021
60 NZ vs SL Chattogram 2014
70 Ban vs NZ Kolkata 2016
72 Ban vs Aus Dubai 2021
77 SL vs SA New York 2024 *

Most economical 4-over spell in T20 WC
1.75 A Nortje vs SL New York 2024 *
2.00 A Mendis vs Zim Hambantota 2012
2.00 Mahmudullah vs Afg Mirpur 2014
2.00 W Hasaranga vs UAE Geelong 2022

It is also the lowest South Africa have bowled out an opponent in T20Is.

Lowest totals for SL in T20Is
77 vs SA New York 2024 *
82 vs Ind Vizag 2016
87 vs Aus Bridgetown 2010
87 vs Ind Cuttack 2017
91 vs Eng Southampton 2021

Statistics courtesy: Cricbuzz