One man was determined not to make this his last one-day experience - it was Aravinda de Silva. The veteran Sri Lankan batsman joined Atapattu in the middle, and the runs started to flow. South Africa missed the experience of Donald in the middle overs, as they failed to break the growing partnership. Zondeki went for 35 runs off his six overs, and never looked like getting a wicket. Atapattu went on to complete a memorable hundred, and along with de Silva (73) added 152 valuable runs for the fourth wicket partnership. In an effort to increasing the scoring rate, Sri Lanka lost the wickets of Atapattu (124 off 129 balls) and de Silva in the space of three balls. The Sri Lankan tail failed to wag, and all they could add was just 25 runs in the last five overs.