Test discards come good
Source: Sportal - 25 October, 2002

Tour match, Kimberley. Day one of four. South Africa A 289-2 v Sri Lankans
South African Test discards Boeta Dippenaar and Neil McKenzie both hit centuries in an unbroken stand of for the third wicket.

For the touring side's bowlers it was a tough first day at the De Beers Diamond Oval.

When Chaminda Vaas bowled Jacques Rudolph for a duck in the first over, Sri Lanka may have been expecting to have a positive first day on their tour of South Africa.

But Dippenaar and Alviro Petersen (42) then got the home side into the swing of things by adding 68 for the second wicket.

Dilhara Fernando dismissed Petersen early in the second hour of play, but that was to be the final success of the day for the tourists.

McKenzie ended the day on 140, having hit 21 boundaries in his innings, while Dippenaar, who scored at a much slower rate, was 101.

South Africa A innings

JA Rudolph b Vaas 0
AN Petersen c Jayasuriya b CRD Fernando 42
HH Dippenaar not out 101
ND McKenzie not out 136
Extras (w 1, nb 5) 6
Total (2 wickets, 85.2 overs) 285

To Bat: *DM Benkenstein, JL Ontong, AJ Hall, RJ Peterson, +TL Tsolekile, S Elworthy, Q Friend.

FoW: 1-0 (Rudolph, 0.5 ov), 2-68 (Petersen, 16.3 ov).

Bowling Vaas 17-5-50-1
CRD Fernando 21-2- 70-1
Lakshitha 15-4-66-0
KHRK Fernando 22-8-49-0
Arnold 13-1-33-0
Atapattu 2-0-21-0

Sri Lanka: *ST Jayasuriya, MS Atapattu, KC Sangakkara, DPMD Jayawardene, HP Tillakaratne, RP Arnold,
WPUJC Vaas, KHRK Fernando, +HAPW Jayawardene, CRD Fernando, MKGCP Lakshitha.