KUSAL PERERA 153*

vs South Africa, Durban

(February, 2019)

Playing the Proteas for the first time, Kusal Perera stood tall in the first innings by top-scoring with 51 in his side’s total of 191.Sri Lanka, chasing 304 for victory, stumbled to 3-52 and their fate looked all but sealed at 9-226. The left-hander however, managed to keep most of the strike and played some audacious strokes, raising an unbeaten 78-run last-wicket stand with Vishwa Fernando – a first-class record for the tenth wicket in a winning cause – to script a sensational onewicket victory.