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Glorious from Faf du Plessis!

He takes a step down the track and deposits Suranga Lakmal back over his head and over the sightscreen for the first six of the South Africa innings.

Paul Farbrace
Ex-England assistant coach on BBC Test Match Special

Du Plessis is known as a player who has shots all around the wicket but he's played straight, late and got himself into good positions to keep rotating the strike.

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Good knock from the skipper.

His second consecutive half-century comes up off 70 balls with four boundaries.

This is now South Africa's best partnership of this World Cup - going past Amla and de Kock's 104 v Afghanistan.

Paul Farbrace
Ex-England assistant coach on BBC Test Match Special

South Africa are in control. Amla has had a tough time but has played really nicely. Du Plessis has just played nice and controlled. He's not had to take risks. He's got his team into position to cruise to a comfortable victory.

Even the umpires want this done now. We almost end up a ball short as umpire Ravi forgets that he gave a wide earlier in the over.

Faf du Plessis tucks a single into the leg side off the extra delivery. 68 required.

I've got tickets for Australia v South Africa at Old Trafford on 6 July.

When I got the tickets I thought I was in for a cracker with it being the final day of the group stage and both sides might have been going head-to-head looking to qualify.

I'm hoping the South Africa we've seen today turns up at least and it's a competitive contest.

Natalie Germanos
BBC Test Match Special

I think there will be significant changes for South Africa after this World Cup. Imran Tahir and JP Duminy won't play after this tournament and then they have a decision to make about Dale Steyn.

Natalie Germanos and Paul Farbrace are doing a post-mortem of South African cricket on TMS, the game is meandering along.

Hashim Amla takes a single off the first ball to bring up the hundred partnership before Faf du Plessis plays out the final five balls of Lasith Malinga's eighth over.

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Keith Ross: If Afghanistan beat Pakistan and the Pakistan-Bangladesh match is washed out, England are through on run rate without winning either of their last two games, assuming India beat Bangladesh. So we have a chance!

He rattles through his third over and South Africa just add four runs to keep the scoreboard ticking along.

The required run-rate is 2.96.

Peter Coles: What an exciting close-fought match this isn't.

Dhananjaya de Silva and his off-spinners are coming back into the attack.

A maiden for Lasith Malinga but no real alarms for South Africa.

He does entice a little prod from Hashim Amla though - his lack of foot movement is bewildering. The veteran batsman then does well to dig out a well-directed yorker.

South Africa need 78 runs to win from 26 overs.

Aamer Iqbal: Incredible. Just searched for bees on pitch and the exact same thing happened in a game two years ago between these two sides. But on the other side of the world.

A couple of singles end the over, seven off it in total.

South Africa are cruising.

Paul Farbrace
Ex-England assistant coach on BBC Test Match Special

It's getting harder to score runs but South Africa have wickets in hand and can just knock it around sensibly.

Isuru Udana continues for Sri Lanka and he gets one to keep a bit low and Faf du Plessis almost chops on.

The South African captain has a wry look on his face after that.

He slices the next ball through where a third slip would have been - Sri Lanka just have a customary first slip in - and away for four.

Faf du Plessis has looked good for his 40 so far.

Nothing doing for Lasith and Sri Lanka though as South Africa add four to the total, all into the on-side as Malinga struggles with his line.

The win predictor is 99-1 in South Africa's favour.