SL VS RSA - 2nd ODI, South Africa tour of Sri Lanka, 2018

That's a wrap to our coverage of this game. Sri Lanka have issues, losing isn't a problem but losing 27 of your last 36 games certainly is. A mini calamity of sorts and they'll need to find answers soon as they cannot afford another loss in the series. SA will be pumped and shall look to continue their dominance. Hope you enjoyed our coverage, for now switch tabs to enjoy the India-England Test match. Until next time, this is Hariprasad Sadanandan signing off on behalf of Sagar Chawla and our scorer Siva. Cheers!

Du Plessis, SA captain: (On change in fortune in the ODI series) We are always renowned for fighting back. These conditions are more in favor of the home team, today was trickier but we adapted well. Was a decent surface, an ideal One-Day wicket that stayed almost the same till the end. We did well to be positive early and not to chase the game against their spinners. That's the thing we did well. Excellent bowling performance, seemed like Sri Lanka would get 280-300 but we kept getting wickets. We kept pulling it back even with them having a set batsmen. Plans were good and the execution was great. Not sure really, not thinking too much about it, just trying to be positive. Feeling good about the way I am batting and the big runs will come. Feeling like I am able to put pressure on the bowlers.

Mathews, SL captain: We give away too many wickets upfront and were always playing catch up since then. Never got going at all with the bat. Unfortunately, we didn't hold onto the catches as well because you need to take those when you are defending such a score. We were terrible in the field today. The bowlers did fairly well but we didn't field properly. Need to put it aside and move forward. He (Dickwella) has gone for a scan and should be okay I guess. (On Dananjaya's good form) Brilliant to see him do well, there are some positives and we can still stay alive in the series if we win the next game. (On his personal form) Yes, good to get runs but my hands were tied with those wickets falling, couldn't really press on as I would have wanted to. Yeah, my back is fine.

De Kock, Man of the Match: (On the change in fortunes for him) I think it's just spinning less in the ODIs and it's helping us. In the Tests, we were working to counter the spinners and it's good to see the hard work paying off. The last two months have been difficult, the excessive turn has been challenging. Anywhere in the sub-continent is always a challenge. I think the pitch played the same throughout, maybe spun a bit but mostly stayed good which is nice for the game.

21:59 Local Time: Another convincing win in the end for South Africa. 245 wasn't a threatening total but the Lankans definitely had a respectable score, considering the sluggish pitch. However, the first 15 overs of the chase saw some shambolic fielding and catching from the hosts with both de Kock and Amla dropped once each. You cannot afford to make such blunders and the duo put the South Africans in control with a fine opening stand. Amla couldn't convert the start but his partner smacked the bowling around and was unlucky to get out in the 80s. du Plessis too looked fluent though even he couldn't bat through. There was a slight hiccup at one point but Duminy and Mulder kept things in check to ensure that the visitors didn't implode. While the fielding was disastrous, Sri Lanka's bowling too looked toothless barring Dananjaya who shone again. He didn't get the required support.

Rajitha to Willem Mulder, FOUR, SA go 2-0 up! Slightly wide outside off and Mulder uses his reach to cream this on the up through cover-point. Timed it beautifully and it rocketed away to the fence. Commanding performance yet again from the Proteas

Rajitha to Willem Mulder, no run, extra bounce from a good length and Mulder is beaten on the outside edge as he tried the back foot punch

Rajitha to Phehlukwayo, 1 run, short ball and forces a top edge as Phehlukwayo cannot control the pull. Lobs over the vacant backward square leg region and they take a single. The second was on but Willem Mulder isn't interested

Rajitha to Phehlukwayo, no run, beaten! Walked down the track for the booming drive but couldn't connect. The winning moment is getting a bit delayed here

Rajitha to Willem Mulder, 1 run, back of a length angling into the pads, clipped down to fine leg

Kasun Rajitha [5.0-0-38-1] is back into the attack

Jayasuriya to Phehlukwayo, no run, fired into the blockhole, middle stump line and Phehlukwayo digs it out

Jayasuriya to Phehlukwayo, no run, lovely off break, spins away sharply to beat the outside edge

Jayasuriya to Phehlukwayo, no run, tries the reverse sweep and makes contact but finds short third man

Jayasuriya to Phehlukwayo, no run, a bit of turn from a flatter trajectory, Phehlukwayo overbalanced on the drive and got beaten. Luckily he didn't go out of the crease

Jayasuriya to Willem Mulder, 1 run, slower one, on a length and forced towards long-on

Jayasuriya to Willem Mulder, no run, flatter one around middle and leg, punched off the back foot towards long-on

Shehan Jayasuriya [2.0-0-15-0] is back into the attack

Perera to Phehlukwayo, no run, angling in from a shorter length, tucked off the back foot towards the leg-side

Perera to Phehlukwayo, no run, that looked funny, Phehlukwayo wanted to slash it away on the off-side and got himself into a tangle. Chopped to cover