Wednesday, August 15, 2012

ICC U19 World Cup: South Africa storm into quarter-finals

By Nadene Smith


BRISBANE (TheSportsNext) August 15, 2012: South Africa U19 defeated Sri Lanka U19 by four wickets at Peter Burge Oval in Brisbane to qualify into quarter-final stage of the 2012 ICC U19 World Cup here Wednesday.

Batting first, Sri Lanka U19 were bowled out for paltry 150 runs from 37.4 overs with DHAP Tharanga (50 not out) proving to be the lone fighter. Corne Dry captured four wickets for 16 runs for South Africa and was declared Man of the Match.

 

South Africa U19 achieved the target from 33 overs for the loss of six wickets as skipper Chad Bowes (46) and Theunis de Bruyn (42) doing the job with the bat. PHT Kaushal took three wickets for Sri Lanka.

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