Played at Newlands, Cape Town, on 19,20,21,22,23 March 1998 (5-day match)

Result South Africa won by 70 runs

Toss South Africa, who chose to bat first
Series South Africa led the 2-match series 1-0

Test debut M Ntini (South Africa)
Player of the match SM Pollock (South Africa)

Umpires RS Dunne (New Zealand) and DL Orchard
TV umpire RE Koertzen
Match referee JR Reid (New Zealand)

Close of play
19 Mar day 1 - South Africa 1st innings 298/6 (SM Pollock 15*, MV Boucher 12*, 90 ov)
20 Mar day 2 - Sri Lanka 1st innings 212/5 (HP Tillakaratne 2*, RS Kaluwitharana 13*, 53 ov)
21 Mar day 3 - South Africa 2nd innings 155/4 (WJ Cronje 11*, MV Boucher 6*, 56 ov)
22 Mar day 4 - Sri Lanka 2nd innings 120/3 (MS Atapattu 50*, A Ranatunga 14*, 43 ov)
23 Mar day 5 - Sri Lanka 2nd innings 306 (95.3 ov) - end of match

• Day 1:
• Makhaya Ntini makes his Test debut.
• Lunch: SA 79/2 (Kirsten 33, Cullinan 8, 27 overs)
• Tea: SA 192/3 (Cullinan 73, Cronje 13, 57 overs)
• Cullinan scored his 4th Test century.
• The 4th wicket partnership of 96 by Cullinan and Cronje was a new record for South Africa against Sri Lanka.

• Day 2:
• Lunch: SA 402/8 (Pollock 81, 120 overs)
• Tea: SL 92/2 (Atapattu 25, de Silva 36, 20 overs)
• Pollock made his highest Test score (Previous 82 vs Pakistan at Sheikhupura, 1997/98)
• The 7th wicket partnership of 95 by Pollock and Boucher was a new record for South Africa against Sri Lanka.
• The 9th wicket partnership of 12 by Pollock and Adams was a new record for South Africa against Sri Lanka.
• The 3rd wicket partnership of 129 by Atapattu and de Silva was a new record for any wicket for Sri Lanka against South Africa.
• The Sri Lankan 3rd wicket partnership is the highest recorded against South Africa in a Test at Newlands - previously 109 by PA Gibb and WR Hammond for England in 1938/39.

• Day 3:
• Lunch: Sri Lanka 300/9 (Muralitharan 15, Pushpakumara 0, 80 overs)
• Tea: South Africa 47/2 (Kallis 6, Cullinan 23, 20 overs)
• The 8th wicket partnership of 29 by Vaas and Wickramasinge was a new record for Sri Lanka against South Africa.
• The 9th wicket partnership of 30 by Vaas and Muralitheran was a new record for Sri Lanka against South Africa.
• The 3rd wicket partnership of 116 by Kallis and Cullinan was a new record for South Africa against Sri Lanka.
• Cullinan became the 14th South African (the 4th since re-admission) to reach 2000 Test runs.
• Boucher held 6 catches in an innings to equal the South African record - This is the second time in a row that he has done this.
• Attendance : 11 500

• Day 4:
• Lunch: South Africa 219/7 (Cronje 54, 86.5 overs)
• Tea: Sri Lanka 27/1 (Attapatu 14, Mahanama 11, 11 overs)
• Jayasuria achieved his best bowling in a Test match beating his previous best of 3/45 vs India at Colombo in 1997/98
• The 264 made by South Africa is their lowest total vs Sri Lanka.
• Attendance : 16 500

• Day 5:
• Lunch: Sri Lanka 209/5 (Tillakaratne 9, Kaluwitharana 25, 75 overs)
• The 9th wicket partnership of 48 by Wickramasinge and Muralitharan was a new record for Sri Lanka against South Africa.
• The 10th wicket partnership of 18 by Wickramasinghe and Pushpakumara was a new record for Sri Lanka against South Africa.
• Wickramasinghe scored his maiden Test 50 - previous highest score 43 vs New Zealand at Dunedin, 1996/97
• This was the 6th time in Test history that a team has been dismissed for the same total in both innings, and the highest score of those 6 occurrances.
• Total attendance : 46313