- ICC World Twenty20 - 7th match, Group C
- T20I no. 269 | 2012/13 season
- Played at Mahinda Rajapaksa International Cricket Stadium, Sooriyawewa, Hambantota
- 22 September 2012 - day/night (20-over match)
| South Africa innings (7 overs maximum) | R | M | B | 4s | 6s | SR | ||
 | RE Levi | c Munaweera b Kulasekara | 4 | 2 | 4 | 0 | 0 | 100.00 |
| HM Amla | st †Sangakkara b Herath | 16 | 14 | 9 | 3 | 0 | 177.77 |
| F du Plessis | c Mendis b Perera | 13 | 29 | 11 | 0 | 0 | 118.18 |
| AB de Villiers*† | c Mendis b Malinga | 30 | 15 | 13 | 1 | 2 | 230.76 |
| JP Duminy | not out | 12 | 5 | 5 | 1 | 1 | 240.00 | |
| JA Morkel | not out | 0 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 0 | - | |
| Extras | (lb 1, w 2) | 3 | ||||||
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| Total | (4 wickets; 7 overs; 35 mins) | 78 | (11.14 runs per over) | |||||
| Did not bat F Behardien, JH Kallis, J Botha, DW Steyn, M Morkel |
| Fall of wickets 1-4 (Levi, 0.4 ov), 2-27 (Amla, 2.6 ov), 3-65 (de Villiers, 5.6 ov), 4-68 (du Plessis, 6.4 ov) |
| Bowling | O | M | R | W | Econ | |||
| KMDN Kulasekara | 1 | 0 | 9 | 1 | 9.00 | ||
| SL Malinga | 2 | 0 | 27 | 1 | 13.50 | (2w) | |
| HMRKB Herath | 2 | 0 | 21 | 1 | 10.50 | ||
| AD Mathews | 1 | 0 | 8 | 0 | 8.00 | |||
| NLTC Perera | 1 | 0 | 12 | 1 | 12.00 |
| Sri Lanka innings (target: 79 runs from 7 overs) | R | M | B | 4s | 6s | SR | ||
| DPMD Jayawardene* | c Behardien b Steyn | 4 | 12 | 6 | 1 | 0 | 66.66 |
| TM Dilshan | run out (†de Villiers) | 0 | 5 | 0 | 0 | 0 | - |
| EMDY Munaweera | c Behardien b JA Morkel | 13 | 30 | 14 | 1 | 0 | 92.85 |
| KC Sangakkara† | c †de Villiers b Kallis | 13 | 13 | 11 | 1 | 0 | 118.18 |
| NLTC Perera | c Duminy b Steyn | 1 | 5 | 3 | 0 | 0 | 33.33 |
| BMAJ Mendis | not out | 7 | 8 | 5 | 1 | 0 | 140.00 | |
| HDRL Thirimanne | not out | 5 | 2 | 3 | 0 | 0 | 166.66 | |
| Extras | (lb 1, w 2) | 3 | ||||||
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| Total | (5 wickets; 7 overs; 38 mins) | 46 | (6.57 runs per over) | |||||
| Did not bat AD Mathews, KMDN Kulasekara, HMRKB Herath, SL Malinga |
| Fall of wickets 1-4 (Dilshan, 0.4 ov), 2-8 (Jayawardene, 1.6 ov), 3-30 (Sangakkara, 4.5 ov), 4-32 (Perera, 5.2 ov),5-40 (Munaweera, 6.2 ov) |
| Bowling | O | M | R | W | Econ | |||
| M Morkel | 2 | 0 | 9 | 0 | 4.50 | |||
| DW Steyn | 2 | 0 | 10 | 2 | 5.00 | (1w) | |
| J Botha | 1 | 0 | 9 | 0 | 9.00 | |||
| JH Kallis | 1 | 0 | 9 | 1 | 9.00 | ||
| JA Morkel | 1 | 0 | 8 | 1 | 8.00 | (1w) |
| Match details |
| Toss Sri Lanka, who chose to field Points South Africa 2, Sri Lanka 0 |
| Player of the match AB de Villiers (South Africa) |
| Umpires RA Kettleborough (England) and RJ Tucker (Australia) TV umpire SJ Davis (Australia) Match referee JJ Crowe (New Zealand) Reserve umpire IJ Gould (England) |
