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Ranjan Anandappa reporting from South Africa

Centurion Park, November 28 - One down in the best of five limited over series Sri Lanka will move to Centurion to meet the South Africans in their second limited over game at the Super Sport Park today in a day\night competition.

Both sides will make a few changes for third game on a pitch that looks different from the one at Wanderers Park which Sri Lanka lost with almost 20 overs to spare.

The Lankans have 17 players in their ranks to chose the final eleven and certainly should pay more emphasis on their batting which has not come right so far on the tour.

The final composition of both sides were unknown till last evening and the final eleven will be picked on the morning of the day of the match after inspecting the pitch.

Shuan Pollock was not happy with the Wanderers pitch saying that it was far from ideal specially for a venue that will host the next year World Cup.

"You are obviously looking out for a spectacle and I do not want to be critical but you want a better surface than this." Pollock said.

"From the first over we knew that there was something in the wicket and we stuck to the task by putting the ball in the right area".

Sanath Jayasuriya did not persist too much on the wicket and said that it was not an easy one to bat on.

"South Africa bowled really well early on, I wouldn't have batted first if I had won the toss." added Jayasuriya.

The teams. 

Sri Lanka - Sanath Jayasuriya (Captain), Marvan Atapattu, Kumar Sangakkara, Jehan Mubarak, Mahela Jayawardena, Aravinda de Silva, Russel Arnold, Hasantha Fernando, Hashan Tillkeratne, Chaminda Vaas, Dilhara Fernando, Tilan Samaraweera, Pulasthy Gunaratne,Avishka Gunawardena, Upul Chandana.

South Africa - Shuan Pollock, (Captain) Hershell Gibbs, Greame Smith, Jacques Kallis, Mark Boucher, Boeta Dippenaar, Justin Ontong, Lance Klusener, Nicky Boje, Andrew Hall, Allan Donald, Makaya Ntini, Modi Zodenki. 

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