<p class="title">Playing for pride, South Africa dished out a fine bowling effort to bowl out Sri Lanka for a modest 203 in their eight and penultimate league match of the World Cup on Friday.</p>.<p class="bodytext">Opting to bowl, the Proteas picked up wickets at regular intervals after the first 10 overs to never allow the Sri Lankan middle-order settle down.</p>.<p class="bodytext">Drafted into the playing eleven in place of Lungi Ngidi, pacer Dwaine Pretorius (3/25) justified his selection with a three-wicket haul.</p>.<p class="bodytext">Chris Morris (3/46) and Kagiso Rabada (2/36) shared five wickets between them.</p>.<p class="bodytext">Sri Lanka had a horrible start as they lost skipper Dimuth Karunaratne in the first ball of the match, caught by his counterpart Faf du Plessis at the second slip off Rabada.</p>.<p class="bodytext">Thereafter, Kusal Perera (30 off 34) and Avishka Fernando (30 off 29) took the counter-attacking approach and played fearlessly to stitch a 67-run stand off 58 balls before the duo perished in quick succession.</p>.<p class="bodytext">Right-arm pacer Pretorius sent both the batsmen packing in consecutive overs as Sri Lanka slumped to 72 for three in 11.3 overs.</p>.<p class="bodytext">New man Angelo Mathews looked in no hurry and took 29 balls to score his 11 runs before he played on a Morris delivery in the 22nd over.</p>.<p class="bodytext">Kusal Mendis (23 off 51) had to dig deep for his runs before he became Pretorius' third victim, spooning one to Morris at extra cover.</p>.<p class="bodytext">Dhananjaya de Silva (24), Jeeva Mendis (18) and Thisara Perera (21) all got starts but threw away their wickets when Sri Lanka needed them to carry on. </p>
<p class="title">Playing for pride, South Africa dished out a fine bowling effort to bowl out Sri Lanka for a modest 203 in their eight and penultimate league match of the World Cup on Friday.</p>.<p class="bodytext">Opting to bowl, the Proteas picked up wickets at regular intervals after the first 10 overs to never allow the Sri Lankan middle-order settle down.</p>.<p class="bodytext">Drafted into the playing eleven in place of Lungi Ngidi, pacer Dwaine Pretorius (3/25) justified his selection with a three-wicket haul.</p>.<p class="bodytext">Chris Morris (3/46) and Kagiso Rabada (2/36) shared five wickets between them.</p>.<p class="bodytext">Sri Lanka had a horrible start as they lost skipper Dimuth Karunaratne in the first ball of the match, caught by his counterpart Faf du Plessis at the second slip off Rabada.</p>.<p class="bodytext">Thereafter, Kusal Perera (30 off 34) and Avishka Fernando (30 off 29) took the counter-attacking approach and played fearlessly to stitch a 67-run stand off 58 balls before the duo perished in quick succession.</p>.<p class="bodytext">Right-arm pacer Pretorius sent both the batsmen packing in consecutive overs as Sri Lanka slumped to 72 for three in 11.3 overs.</p>.<p class="bodytext">New man Angelo Mathews looked in no hurry and took 29 balls to score his 11 runs before he played on a Morris delivery in the 22nd over.</p>.<p class="bodytext">Kusal Mendis (23 off 51) had to dig deep for his runs before he became Pretorius' third victim, spooning one to Morris at extra cover.</p>.<p class="bodytext">Dhananjaya de Silva (24), Jeeva Mendis (18) and Thisara Perera (21) all got starts but threw away their wickets when Sri Lanka needed them to carry on. </p>