South Africa vs Sri Lanka: South Africa and Sri Lanka are face to face in the second match of the Cricket World Cup being played in India today (7 October). This match is to be played at Arun Jaitley Stadium in Delhi. This ground has always been difficult for the batsmen. Scoring runs has never been easy here. This is the reason that in the 26 ODI matches played so far on this ground, teams have been able to touch the 300-run mark only twice.
For the first time, Pakistan touched the 300-run mark here. Against India in April 2005, Pakistan scored 303 runs losing 8 wickets against India. After this, in February 2011, West Indies scored 330 runs against Netherlands after losing 8 wickets. In the 26 matches played here, it has happened 6 times when the teams batting first could not even score 200 runs.
The highest strike rate among players who have played at least 250 balls on this ground is only 96.38. Former Indian captain Mohammad Azharuddin has scored 267 runs in 7 innings at this strike rate. So far only 8 centuries have been scored in ODIs on this ground. Till date no batsman has been able to score two centuries on this ground. It has also been difficult to hit sixes here. Till now only 5 batsmen have been able to hit more than 3 sixes on this ground. Overall, batting on this pitch is not easy at all.
Records of South Africa and Sri Lanka in Delhi
Sri Lanka has played 5 matches so far in the Arun Jaitley Stadium in Delhi. Of these 5 matches, the Lankan team has faced defeat in three. He has won one match and one match has been cancelled. South Africa’s record here has been equal. The Proteas have played two matches here and have won one and lost the other.
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