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| Venue | Chevrolet Park, Bloemfontein on 17th January 2012 (50-over match) (day/night) |
| Balls per over | 6 |
| Toss | Sri Lanka won the toss and decided to bat |
| Result | South Africa won by 4 runs (Duckworth/Lewis method) |
| Umpires | JD Cloete, NJ Llong (England) |
| TV umpire | BR Doctrove (West Indies) |
| Referee | JJ Crowe (New Zealand) |
| Reserve Umpire | S George |
| Man of the Match | F du Plessis |
| Picture galleries | 3rd ODI, Sri Lanka in South Africa 2011/12, 17 Jan 2012 - pictures |
| Sri Lanka innings | Runs | Balls | Mins | 4s | 6s | S-Rate | |
| WU Tharanga | c Ingram b Peterson | 58 | 65 | 90 | 5 | 2 | 89.23 |
| *TM Dilshan | c Steyn b Duminy | 33 | 49 | 101 | 2 | - | 67.35 |
| +KC Sangakkara | run out (du Plessis) | 38 | 37 | 46 | 3 | 1 | 102.70 |
| LD Chandimal | c Smith b M Morkel | 36 | 54 | 76 | 3 | - | 66.67 |
| DPMD Jayawardene | run out (Ingram) | 15 | 19 | 26 | 1 | - | 78.95 |
| KMDN Kulasekara | b M Morkel | 40 | 38 | 59 | 1 | 1 | 105.26 |
| AD Mathews | c Peterson b Tsotsobe | 15 | 14 | 23 | 2 | - | 107.14 |
| CKB Kulasekara | run out (Tsotsobe->de Villiers) | 19 | 20 | 31 | - | - | 95.00 |
| SL Malinga | b Steyn | 2 | 4 | 4 | - | - | 50.00 |
| HMRKB Herath | not out | 1 | 1 | 5 | - | - | 100.00 |
| KTGD Prasad | did not bat | ||||||
| Extras | (1 lb, 1 nb, 7 w) | 9 | |||||
| Total | (9 wickets, innings closed, 231 minutes, 50 overs) | 266 | |||||
| Fall of wickets: | |||||||
| 1-94 (Tharanga, 18.3 ov), 2-102 (Dilshan, 20.1 ov), 3-154 (Sangakkara, 29.1 ov), 4-183 (Jayawardene, 35.4 ov), 5-192 (Chandimal, 38.1 ov), 6-220 (Mathews, 43.3 ov), 7-259 (KMDN Kulasekara, 48.4 ov), 8-262 (Malinga, 49.3 ov), 9-266 (CKB Kulasekara, 50 ov) | |||||||
| South Africa bowling | Overs | Mdns | Runs | Wkts | Wides | No-Balls | S-Rate | Econ |
| M Morkel | 9 | 0 | 65 | 2 | - | - | 27.00 | 7.22 |
| Tsotsobe | 10 | 0 | 40 | 1 | 2 | - | 60.00 | 4.00 |
| Steyn | 10 | 0 | 55 | 1 | 1 | - | 60.00 | 5.50 |
| Duminy | 5 | 0 | 26 | 1 | 1 | - | 30.00 | 5.20 |
| JA Morkel | 2 | 0 | 9 | 0 | 1 | - | - | 4.50 |
| Peterson | 10 | 0 | 45 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 60.00 | 4.50 |
| du Plessis | 4 | 0 | 25 | 0 | 1 | - | - | 6.25 |
| South Africa innings | Runs | Balls | Mins | 4s | 6s | S-Rate | |
| GC Smith | b Malinga | 2 | 13 | 21 | - | - | 15.38 |
| AN Petersen | lbw b Dilshan | 17 | 27 | 57 | 1 | - | 62.96 |
| CA Ingram | b Malinga | 13 | 8 | 9 | 3 | - | 162.50 |
| F du Plessis | run out (Mathews->Sangakkara) | 72 | 74 | 99 | 7 | - | 97.30 |
| JP Duminy | run out (KMDN Kulasekara) | 25 | 34 | 49 | 2 | - | 73.53 |
| *+AB de Villiers | not out | 39 | 36 | 50 | 3 | - | 108.33 |
| JA Morkel | not out | 7 | 12 | 27 | - | - | 58.33 |
| RJ Peterson | did not bat | ||||||
| DW Steyn | did not bat | ||||||
| M Morkel | did not bat | ||||||
| LL Tsotsobe | did not bat | ||||||
| Extras | (2 lb, 2 w) | 4 | |||||
| Total | (5 wickets, 157 minutes, 34 overs) | 179 | |||||
| Fall of wickets: | |||||||
| 1-14 (Smith, 4.5 ov), 2-29 (Ingram, 6.2 ov), 3-52 (Petersen, 12.1 ov), 4-113 (Duminy, 23.3 ov), 5-147 (du Plessis, 28.6 ov) | |||||||
| Sri Lanka bowling | Overs | Mdns | Runs | Wkts | Wides | No-Balls | S-Rate | Econ |
| Malinga | 5 | 1 | 20 | 2 | 2 | - | 15.00 | 4.00 |
| KMDN Kulasekara | 6 | 0 | 31 | 0 | - | - | - | 5.17 |
| Prasad | 5 | 0 | 38 | 0 | - | - | - | 7.60 |
| Herath | 6 | 0 | 24 | 0 | - | - | - | 4.00 |
| Dilshan | 5 | 0 | 22 | 1 | - | - | 30.00 | 4.40 |
| CKB Kulasekara | 3 | 0 | 21 | 0 | - | - | - | 7.00 |
| Mathews | 4 | 0 | 21 | 0 | - | - | - | 5.25 |