5 unwanted ODI records by Top Teams

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A day to forget for Wahab Riaz and the Pakistan Cricket Team

# 3 Sri Lanka Vs South Africa, 2012 - Lowest score to get all-out while chasing (43)

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Morne Morkel demolished Sri Lanka with his bowling figures of 6.0 - 2 - 10 - 4

Here is another record which Sri Lankan team would definitely want to erase from their memories. Chasing a victory target of an achievable 302 runs in 50-overs, the Sri Lankan team got all out for a trivial 43 runs in just 20.1 overs. Only one batsman crossed the single-digit score: Nuwan Kulasekara, who scored 19 runs.

The island-nation created two unwanted records with their infamous innings. Their score of 43 is the lowest score in the ODI history by a chasing side. As far as the largest margin of Defeat by runs' is concerned, this defeat is the worst for an established nation. They lost the game by a whopping 258 runs.

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