Sri Lanka coasted to an eight-wicket victory over South Africa at the Pallekele Stadium with six overs in hand on Sunday to take an unassailable 3-1 lead in the five-match ODI series. Tillakaratne Dilshan, who hit an unbeaten 115 off 130 balls with six fours, and Kumar Sangakkara, who was caught in the deep nine runs short of his century (101 balls, 8 fours and 2 sixes), shared a second wicket partnership of 184 runs to make light work of the target of 239.
This was a record for the second wicket for Sri Lanka on home soil and only 16 runs short of the Sri Lankan overall record set by the same two players against India.