Live Cricket Score - South Africa vs Sri Lanka, 1st Test, Day 4, Durban

That's all from us folks! What a thriller this was. Hope you enjoyed the game. Until next time then ...

POST MATCH THOUGHTS

Kusal Perera, Man of the Match: I'm still tired now. I don't know what to say. Great effort as a team, specially the lower order batsmen. They gave me good support. I believed in myself and we did. I did my part, winning as a team. We did our homework. This is a special win for us.We did a lot of hard work in previous times.

Karunaratne: It was an awesome game. We knew before coming here that we had a good chance. We have played here in Durban, in 2012 we won a match here. We had a tough series in Australia, but we learnt many things and I knew boys will give their best here in South Africa. We have lost lot of matches in the last few years. It will be good for us and Sri Lankan fans. This is a proud moment for me as a captain and for Sri Lanka. Winning in South Africa is a real proud moment. We were not moving from our places. The dressing room was happy and that's what I want. End of the day, we did a good job here, result is good as well. He (Kusal Perera) batted really well. He is one of the most experienced players in the side. His hundred is incredible, getting a hundred in South Africa is not easy. Two debutants did really well. As a team, we have to play as a unit and give our best.

Faf du Plessis: Incredible game of cricket, obviously very disappointed being on the losing side. Having gone down to none wickets and that 60-70 run partnership for the last wicket, it's great for the game of Test cricket. I suppose that's the kind of Test matches you want to see. So, well played to Sri Lanka. Perera was unbelievable, to get 160 (sic) out of that score will take a Superman effort. He deserves all the accolades he will get after this game. The ball swung a bit in both the innings. We were under-par from runs point of view. We were 50 runs short in the first innings and about 30-50 in the second innings. Our bowlers were very good over the last two days. (On losing 5/8) It was strange. We were batting, at that time myself and Vern and the ball was pretty placid. The wicket was slow and made the ball soft. It hit the paint on the crease, they changed it and it started to swing. The swing was what that did us. There's no express pace in the Sri Lankan attack, you'd want to hang around. I thought 300 was enough on this wicket and obviously great batting took it away from us. I'd be lying if I say there wasn't emotions going through me inside. Difficult for a captain, tactically. You want to protect the lead and then also you want to bowl at the tail. They just kept knocking it over. Brilliant bowling from Dale again, Kesh (Maharaj) was brilliant too. He was unlucky today not to get more wickets. Disappointed not to have Vern today conditions wise it was perfect for him. That changed our bowling plan. I'd have backed my team to take 10 wickets. It's disappointing because it's just a 2-match series. We'll most certainly come back stronger.