South Africa lead Sri Lanka 2-1 in World Cup head-to-heads.
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South Africa will look to do what no Proteas team has done before by winning a knockout match at the World Cup when they face Sri Lanka in a quarter-final at the Sydney Cricket Ground on Wednesday. Catch all the live cricket score and live updates of the match here: (LIVE SCORECARD | SCHEDULE | South Africa Odds-on Favourites to Win vs Sri Lanka)
It was at the SCG where South Africa's inspiring World Cup debut in 1992 came to a farcical end after the rain-rule in force at the time left them with the impossible task of scoring 22 runs off one ball in a semi-final loss to England.
Yet that was merely the start of a litany of World Cup woe that included the pain of a tied semi-final but exit on net run-rate against Australia in 1999.
South Africa's worst World Cup finish came on home soil in 2003 when a failure to correctly interpret the Duckworth/Lewis rain rule meant they bowed out at the group stage after a dramatic tie with Sri Lanka in Durban.
In 2011, they suffered a surprise quarter-final defeat by New Zealand.
In Hashim Amla and skipper AB de Villiers, who made a superb 162 not out against the West Indies in the group stage at the SCG, South Africa boast two of the world's leading batsmen, with Dale Steyn the pre-eminent fast bowler of his generation.
But can they demonstrate their undeniable talent in a 'win or go home' knockout match?
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