Busy bees South Africa rout Sri Lanka by seven wickets

AFP, Johannesburg :
South Africa routed Sri Lanka by seven wickets to take the third one-day international at the Wanderers on Saturday in a match held up for an hour after bees swarmed onto the famous arena.
The hosts also took a winning 3-0 lead in the five-match series after bowling out Sri Lanka for 163 before South Africa captain AB de Villiers starred with an undefeated 60.
In what has become a traditional “pink day” at the Wanderers, with the South African players and most of the capacity crowd wearing pink in support of breast cancer awareness, De Villiers apologised for not providing the feast of run scoring that has marked four previous such occasions.
“The crowd was amazing although we didn’t score 300 and hit a lot of sixes,” said De Villiers.
“Our focus today was on winning the series and our bowlers did a fantastic job. It wasn’t an easy wicket to bat on and if Sri Lanka had got a hundred runs more they could have made it difficult for us.”
Sri Lanka captain Upul Tharanga was left to bemoan another sub-standard batting performance, with five batsmen falling to short-pitched bowling.
“We had a very good start but we didn’t capitalise. Niroshan Dickwella batted well but didn’t have support.”