South Africa vs Sri Lanka 2016/17 Full Schedule: All Matches Date and Time Table with Ground Details

Post wins in Zimbabwe, Sri Lanka's African sojourn continues as they head to South Africa for an eight-week tour. The challenge presented in Zimbabwe will be miniscule in comparison to what they will face in South Africa. The Lankans last played a Test series in South Africa in 2011-12 and they managed to win the Durban Test but despite the victory, they went on to lose the series 1-2. In fact, that was the first Test that Sri Lanka won in South Africa. All the four series they have played in the country have ended in Sri Lanka defeats. Still in a rebuilding phase, Sri Lanka will eye a turnaround.

To South Africa's credit, they won in Sri Lanka in 2014 and have not lost a Test series against Sri Lanka in 10 years. The series best remembered for the world record 624-run stand between Kumar Sangakkara and Mahela Jayawardene. Sri Lanka-South Africa contests have provided enough entertainment in the past and this promises to be another interesting tour. After a dismal start to the year, South Africa's performance curve has gradually moved upwards. In the last quarter of the year, South Africa have beaten New Zealand and Australia in Tests and whitewashed Australia 5-0.

Faf du Plessis has replaced AB de Villiers as the full-time Test skipper and is relishing the role. Meanwhile, the side is sweating over the fitness of two of their stalwarts, de Villiers and Dale Steyn.

The rebuilding Sri Lankan side under Angelo Mathews will start their tour against South African Invitation XI at Potchefstroom. Sri Lanka have whitewashed Australia 3-0 earlier this year before meting out the same treatment to Zimbabwe. South Africa are fifth in the ICC Test rankings and Sri Lanka are at No.7.

The first Test begins on Boxing Day at Port Elizabeth. The second Test starts on January 2, 2017 at Cape Town. The final Test will be hosted at the New Wanderers at Johannesburg.
The Test series will be followed T20Is. Centurion, Johannesburg and Cape Town are the venues. The ODI series begins on January 28. The sides have played 60 ODIs so far with both teams winning 29 apiece. The ODI series will start at Port Elizabeth and the other venues are Durban, Johannesburg, Cape Town and Centurion.

South Africa vs Sri Lanka 2016/17 Features

South Africa vs Sri Lanka, 5th ODI at Centurion: Key clashes
Shruti Hariharan February 10, 2017 11:37 AM IST
Sri Lanka will enter the final match of their tour to South Africa at Centurion on Friday riding on the little hope they built in
South Africa vs Sri Lanka, 5th ODI at Centurion: Likely XIs for both teams
Vishal Mehra February 9, 2017 5:37 PM IST
South Africa would not want to miss out on a series brown-wash, while Sri Lanka will hope to keep them at bay and end the
SA vs SL, 4th ODI at Cape Town: Likely XI for both sides
Shruti Hariharan February 7, 2017 10:44 AM IST
The ODI series between South Africa and Sri Lanka has reached to a point where the hosts are awaiting some serious competition from their opponents.
South Africa vs Sri Lanka, 4th ODI at Cape Town: Key battles
Ayush Gupta February 7, 2017 7:45 AM IST
South Africa have presented fine display of game play in the series so far, thus allowing themselves to tame the Lankan lions, who have had
SA vs SL, 3rd ODI: Pink wave, bees stopping play, butter fingers and other highlights
CricketCountry Staff February 5, 2017 1:13 PM IST
The ‘Pink ODI’, in particular, has been lucky for South African captain AB de Villiers, who before this game averaged a whopping 97.50 in the

Imran Tahir heralded as No. 1 ODI bowler
Asian News International February 11, 2017 4:40 PM IST
South Africa’s Wayne Parnell and Chris Morris are the other players from the series to make impressive gains in the latest rankings.
South Africa climb to No. 1 in ICC rankings with 88-run win over Sri Lanka in 5th ODI
CricketCountry Staff February 11, 2017 1:27 AM IST
Set a target of 385, Sri Lanka never managed to get things going, despite a late flourish by Asela Gunaratne and Sachith Pathirana.
Live Cricket Score, South Africa vs Sri Lanka, 5th ODI at Centurion: SA win by 88 runs, climb to No. 1 ODI ranking
Pramod Ananth February 11, 2017 1:08 AM IST
Hello and Welcome to Cricket Country's live blog session of the fifth and final One-Day International (ODI) between hosts South Africa and visitors Sri Lanka,

South Africa vs Sri Lanka, 5th ODI at Centurion: Key clashes

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South Africa vs Sri Lanka, 4th ODI at Cape Town: Key battles

SA vs SL, 3rd ODI: Pink wave, bees stopping play, butter fingers and other highlights

Imran Tahir heralded as No. 1 ODI bowler

South Africa climb to No. 1 in ICC rankings with 88-run win over Sri Lanka in 5th ODI

Live Cricket Score, South Africa vs Sri Lanka, 5th ODI at Centurion: SA win by 88 runs, climb to No. 1 ODI ranking

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