Sri Lanka hope to carry the confidence they gained from beating South Africa in the last two ODIs into today’s one-off T20 international at the R Premadasa Stadium commencing 7 pm.
“We’re hoping to win because we’ve got some confidence from the last two wins and we’re hoping to take that into the T20I. We have a good team as well, so I trust we can win,” said Sri Lanka skipper Angelo Mathews.
The match winner for Sri Lanka in Sunday’s 178-run victory over South Africa in the fifth and final was spinner Akila Dananjaya who ran through the Proteas batting taking six wickets.
He is bound to play another major role if Sri Lanka is to win today.
“There is a big difference when you consider Akila’s debut, and you look at him now. He bowls with a lot of confidence. He’s not afraid to bowl his variations. And those variations are now also bowled with a lot of control. So those add up to a big difference,” said Mathews.
Meanwhile Isuru Udana and Kasun Rajitha has been brought into the Sri Lanka T20I squad for today’s game replacing Jeffrey Vandersay and Shehan Madushanka who have been retained to represent Sri Lanka Emerging in today’s third unofficial one-day game against South Africa Emerging at the SSC.
Sri Lanka won the last T20I series played in South Africa beating the hosts 2-1 in January last year. Overall South Africa lead with five wins against Sri Lanka’s four in the nine T20Is played so far between the two countries.
T20 TICKETS
Tickets for today’s T20I between Sri Lanka and South Africa are available for the Grand Stand – Rs. 5000, Corporate Box – Rs. 7500 and ‘A’ upper and ‘B’ upper – Rs. 2500.
Tickets in the price range of Rs. 300, 1000 and 1500 have been sold out. There is no online bookings states a SLC media release.
PARKING FACILITIES
A SLC media release states that all the gates at the R. Premadasa International Cricket Stadium will be open at 4.30 pm today for the T20I match between Sri Lanka and South Africa.
This is done in order to enable the public, who has bought tickets to watch the match, arrive early at the stadium without being subjected to congestion at the entry points.
In the meantime, public can park their vehicles at the CWE Car Park, situated near the stadium (RPICS) by showing the ‘Match Ticket’ to the Car Park Management.
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