With South Africa now re-established in international sport, its national team made an inaugural tour of Sri Lanka in 1993 and played 3 Tests. South Africa won the series 1–0 with 2 matches drawn:
Test series summary edit
1st Test edit
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- Sri Lanka won the toss and elected to bat.
- 27 August was taken as a rest day.
- CE Eksteen and PL Symcox (both SA), and PB Dassanayake and PK Wijetunge (both SL) made their Test debuts.
2nd Test edit
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- Sri Lanka won the toss and elected to bat.
- 9 September was taken as a rest day.
- The match was scheduled for five days but completed in three.
- HDPK Dharmasena (SL) made his Test debut.
3rd Test edit
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- South Africa won the toss and elected to bat.
- 17 September was taken as a rest day.
- There was no play on the final day.
One Day Internationals (ODIs) edit
The series was drawn 1-1, with one no-result.
1st ODI edit
22 August 1993
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- South Africa won the toss and elected to field.
- The match was reduced before play started to 46 overs per side.
- The Sri Lanka innings was reduced to 41.3 overs.
- The South Africa innings was reduced to 25 overs and the target to 107 runs.
- PL Symcox (SA) made his ODI debut.
2nd ODI edit
3rd ODI edit