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New Zealand have beaten South Africa by four wickets to qualify for their first Cricket World Cup final in dramatic fashion.

SYDNEY: Sri Lanka great Kumar Sangakkara said he was confident about the future of the side after he bowed out of ODIs with a World Cup quarter-final defeat by South Africa.

Rampant South Africa were on the verge of the World Cup semi-finals on Wednesday after Sri Lanka collapsed to just 133 all out at the Sydney Cricket Ground.

Sri Lanka captain Angelo Mathews won the toss and elected to bat first in the World Cup quarterfinal against South Africa on Wednesday at the Sydney Cricket Ground.

Kumar Sangakkara is working as hard to improve his game in his final one-day tournament as he did when he first broke into the Sri Lanka team a decade and a half ago, said chief selector Sanath Jayasuriya.

President Maithripala Sirisena yesterday (15) congratulated the Sri Lankan cricket team, which has qualified for the quarter-final of the ICC Cricket World Cup 2015. During a video call via Skype, the President wished Captain Angelo Mathews luck in the next round of matches.

Kumar Sangakkara became the first batsman to hit four successive centuries in one-day internationals to help Sri Lanka wrap up its World Cup pool campaign with a 148-run romp over Scotland at Bellerive Oval.

Kumar Sangakkara created One Day International cricket history today at the Bellerive Oval during their ICC World Cup 2015 Pool A match against Scotland.

Sri Lanka batsman Dinesh Chandimal has been ruled out of the rest of the World Cup due to a hamstring injury and replaced in the squad by Kusal Perera, organisers said on Tuesday.

Sri Lanka great Muttiah Muralitharan said Kumar Sangakkara would be the batsman all other teams feared at the World Cup after the left-hander made his third successive hundred on Sunday.

Kumar Sangakkara joined Sachin Tendulkar in an exclusive club on Sunday, becoming only the second batsman to pass 14,000 career runs in One-day internationals.

On a pitch that many felt looked more like SSC than SCG, Australia won the toss and gladly took the opportunity to bat first. The surface looked bone dry, and was expected to offer help to spinners.

Sri Lanka are slowly coming to the boil at the World Cup after a poor warm-up tour of New Zealand and are aiming to peak for the knockout stages, skipper Angelo Mathews said on Saturday.

Legendary spinner Muttiah Muralidaran believes Sri Lanka’s cricketers have nothing to fear in Sunday’s World Cup clash with Australia in Sydney.

Sri Lanka fast bowler Suranga Lakmal has been fined for breaching Level 1 of the ICC Code for Players and Players Support Personnel during his side’s Pool A match in the ICC Cricket World Cup 2015 against England at the Wellington Regional Stadium in Wellington on Sunday.

Sri Lanka has coasted home to an emphatic nine-wicket win against England, chasing down 310 with ease in Wellington.