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# 4 South Africa (73) vs Sri Lanka at Galle in 2018

Karunaratne outscored the entire South African team at Galle

This was the first Test match of the series. South Africa was set an impossible target of 352 in the fourth innings on a turning track. The Sri Lankan skipper did not waste much time bowling himself and opened the bowling with the two spinners, Rangana Herath and Dilruwan Perera.

Perera and Herath had South Africa on the mat

South Africa started the innings on a disastrous note, losing half the side for just 36 runs on the board. Herath and Perera bowled unchanged for 14 overs each and South Africa was shot out for 73 in 28 overs. Vernon Philander was South Africa's top scorer with 22 and Aiden Markram made 19. Apart from these two, only Quinton De Kock could reach double figures. In the entire innings, there were only 4 fours and 2 sixes.

While Perera took 6 wickets, his senior partner Herath finished with 3 wickets. Perera had match figures of 10 for 78. Sri Lanka won that Test match by a massive margin of 278 runs. The match got over in two and a half days.

For Sri Lanka, Dimuth Karunaratne carried his bat through in the first innings with an individual score of 158. South Africa, as a team, could not score more than his individual score and were all out for 126 & 73 in the first and second innings respectively.

In the second innings, Karunaratne scored 60 and South Africa’s match aggregate of 199 runs was short by 19 runs to Karunaratne’s match aggregate. Such was the total domination of Karunaratne and the Sri Lankan spinners in this match.