South Africa women's cricket team in Sri Lanka in 2014–15

South African women's tour of Sri Lanka in 2014–15
		Sri Lanka women		South Africa women
Dates		15 October – 26 October
Captains		Chamari Atapattu		Mignon du Preez
Women's One Day International series
Result		South Africa women won the 4-match series 2–1
Most runs		Chamari Atapattu (229)		Marizanne Kapp (129)
Most wickets		Ama Kanchana (6)		Shabnim Ismail (11)
Player of the series		Chamari Atapattu (SL)
Women's Twenty20 International series
Result		South Africa women won the 3-match series 2–1
Most runs		Chamari Atapattu (60)		Dane van Niekerk (107)
Most wickets		Maduri Samuddika (3)		Dane van Niekerk (4) Shabnim Ismail (4)

South African women's cricket team toured Sri Lanka in the beginning of 2014–15 season. The tour consisted of a series of 4 One day internationals and 3 Twenty20 internationals.^[1] First three of the four ODIs formed a part of the 2014–16 ICC Women's Championship. The tourists won both ODI and T20I series by 2–1.

Squads

ODIs		T20Is
Sri Lanka[1]	South Africa[2]	Sri Lanka[1]	South Africa[2]
Chamari Atapattu (c) Hasini Perera Shashikala Siriwardene Eshani Lokusuriyage Sripali Weerakkody Anushka Sanjeewani (wk) Maduri Samuddika Inoka Ranaweera Udeshika Prabodhani Ama Kanchana Prasadani Weerakkody Sanduni Abeywickrema Imalka Mendis Nilakshi de Silva On standby: Chamari Polgampola Yasoda Mendis	Mignon du Preez (c) Bernadine Bezuidenhout Trisha Chetty (wk) Moseline Daniels Yolani Fourie Shabnim Ismail Marizanne Kapp Ayabonga Khaka Lizelle Lee Marcia Letsoalo Nadine Moodley Andrie Steyn Chloe Tryon Dane van Niekerk	Chamari Atapattu (c) Hasini Perera Shashikala Siriwardene Eshani Lokusuriyage Sripali Weerakkody Anushka Sanjeewani Maduri Samuddika Inoka Ranaweera Udeshika Prabodhani Ama Kanchana Prasadani Weerakkody (wk) Sanduni Abeywickrema Imalka Mendis Nilakshi de Silva On standby: Chamari Polgampola Inoshi Priyadharshani Chandima Gunaratne Yasoda Mendis	Mignon du Preez (c) Bernadine Bezuidenhout Trisha Chetty (wk) Moseline Daniels Yolani Fourie Shabnim Ismail Marizanne Kapp Ayabonga Khaka Lizelle Lee Marcia Letsoalo Nadine Moodley Andrie Steyn Chloe Tryon Dane van Niekerk

ODI series

1st ODI

ICC Women's Championship 15 October 09:50 SLST (UTC+05:30) Scorecard

South Africa  225/8 (50 overs)	v	Sri Lanka 172/9 (50 overs)
Marizanne Kapp 89* (90) Eshani Lokusuriyage 2/24 (8 overs)		Eshani Lokusuriyage 59 (55) Yolani Fourie 2/18 (5 overs)

South Africa Women won by 53 runs Sinhalese Sports Club Ground, Colombo Umpires: Ranmore Martinesz (SL) and Ruchira Palliyaguruge (SL) Player of the match: Marizanne Kapp (SA)

• South Africa Women won the toss and elected to bat.
• Bernadine Bezuidenhout (SA), Yolani Fourie (SA), Ama Kanchana (SL) and Hasini Perera (SL) made their ODI debuts.

2nd ODI

ICC Women's Championship 17 October 09:50 SLST (UTC+05:30) Scorecard

Sri Lanka  209/8 (50 overs)	v	South Africa
Chamari Atapattu 106 (151) Shabnim Ismail 4/35 (9 overs)

No result Sinhalese Sports Club Ground, Colombo Umpires: Ranmore Martinesz (SL) and Raveendra Wimalasiri (SL)

• Sri Lanka Women won the toss and elected to bat.
• Match suspended due to rain, to be played on a reserved day (18 October).
• No play during the reserved day was possible due to rain.

3rd ODI

ICC Women's Championship 19 October 09:50 SLST (UTC+05:30) Scorecard

South Africa  139/7 (27 overs)	v	Sri Lanka 143/6 (26 overs)
Mignon du Preez 34 (44) Ama Kanchana 3/26 (3 overs)		Chamari Atapattu 63 (71) Shabnim Ismail 3/34 (6 overs)

Sri Lanka Women won by 4 wickets Sinhalese Sports Club Ground, Colombo Umpires: Ranmore Martinesz (SL) and Ruchira Palliyaguruge (SL) Player of the match: Chamari Atapattu (SL)

• Sri Lanka Women won the toss and elected to field.
• Rain delayed start of play and reduced the match to 27 overs per innings.

4th ODI

21 October 09:50 SLST (UTC+05:30) Scorecard

Sri Lanka  137 (43.4 overs)	v	South Africa 141/5 (34.5 overs)
Eshani Lokusuriyage 46 (67) Shabnim Ismail 2/15 (7 overs)		Trisha Chetty 59 (81) Maduri Samuddika 2/28 (9 overs)

South Africa Women won by 5 wickets Sinhalese Sports Club Ground, Colombo Umpires: Nishan Dhanasinghe (SL) and Rohitha Kottahachchi (SL) Player of the match: Trisha Chetty (SA)

• South Africa Women won the toss and elected to field.
• Andrie Steyn (SA) made her ODI debut.

T20I series

1st T20I

23 October 10:00 SLST (UTC+05:30) Scorecard

Sri Lanka  101/7 (13 overs)	v	South Africa 94/6 (13 overs)
Shashikala Siriwardene 28 (25) Marizanne Kapp 2/16 (3 overs)		Lizelle Lee 41 (30) Eshani Lokusuriyage 2/11 (2 overs)

Sri Lanka Women won by 7 runs Colts Cricket Club Ground, Colombo Umpires: Lyndon Hannibal (SL) and Rohitha Kottahachchi (SL) Player of the match: Shashikala Siriwardene (SL)

• Sri Lanka Women won the toss and elected to bat.
• Rain delayed start of play and reduced the match to 13 overs per innings.
• Yolani Fourie (SA) and Inoshi Priyadharshani (SL) made their T20I debuts.

2nd T20I

25 October 09:50 SLST (UTC+05:30) Scorecard

Sri Lanka  76 (14 overs)	v	South Africa 77/3 (17.3 overs)
Yasoda Mendis 21 (13) Dane van Niekerk 4/17 (4 overs)		Dane van Niekerk 22 (43) Maduri Samuddika 2/18 (4 overs)

South Africa Women won by 7 wickets Colts Cricket Club Ground, Colombo Umpires: Asanga Jayasooriya (SL) and Prageeth Rambukwella (SL) Player of the match: Dane van Niekerk (SA)

• Sri Lanka Women won the toss and elected to bat.

3rd T20I

26 October 14:00 SLST (UTC+05:30) Scorecard

Sri Lanka  132/6 (20 overs)	v	South Africa 136/1 (19.5 overs)
Prasadani Weerakkody 48 (45) Marcia Letsoalo 2/15 (4 overs)		Dane van Niekerk 70* (68) Maduri Samuddika 1/24 (4 overs)

South Africa Women won by 9 wickets Mercantile Cricket Association Ground, Colombo Umpires: Deepal Gunawardene (SL) and Rohitha Kottahachchi (SL) Player of the match: Dane van Niekerk (SA)

• Sri Lanka Women won the toss and elected to bat.

References

1. SL Women pick uncapped Imalka Mendis for SA series
2. South Africa Women tour of Sri Lanka, 2014/15 - squads

External links

• Series home at Espncricinfo