South Africa has upper hand

1st match of the Champions Trophy 2009-10
At Centurion
*** This will be the 46th match between South Africa and Sri Lanka. The home team has won 22 and lost 21 of them.
*** Both have played 17 matches in South Africa and Sri Lanka lost 12 of them, they won only 4 in South Africa while one ended in no result. Both have played one match on this ground in November 2002 which was won by South Africa by 177 runs.
*** This will be the 3rd encounter between these teams in ICC Champions Trophy. South Africa has won both the previous matches.
Some other records
*** Highest Total
South Africa: 6-317 at Centurion in 2002
Sri Lanka: 8-308 at Colombo (SSC) in 2004
*** Lowest Total
South Africa: 154 at Colombo (RPS) in 1993-94
Sri Lanka: 98 at Colombo (RPS) in 1993-94

*** Most Runs
South Africa: 1279 by Jacques Kallis in 30 matches.
Sri Lanka: 1164 by MS Atapattu in 34 matches.
*** Highest score
S Africa: 125* by HH Dippenaar at Adelaide in 2005-06
Sri Lanka: 124 by MS Atapattu at Kingsmead in 2002-03
*** Most Wickets
South Africa: 53 by SM Pollock in 35 matches
Sri Lanka: 49 by M Muralitharan in 31Matches.

*** Best BowlingSouth Africa: 6/49, Lance Klusner at Lahore in 1997-98
Sri Lanka: 5/26 by Nuwan Zoysa at Colombo (RPS) in 2004