Sports Desk: Sri Lanka was bowled out for just 42 runs. Sri Lanka's first innings collapsed in just 13.5 overs in the first Test of the series against South Africa in Durban. This is the lowest run in Sri Lanka's Test history.

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Also the lowest of any team against South Africa. And Sri Lanka's innings with the ball is the second lowest in the 150 years of Test history.

Sri Lanka's lowest Test score before today's innings was 71. Which they did against Pakistan in Kandy in 1994. However, South African pacer Marco Jansen's devastating bowling broke that record and Sri Lanka entered the pages of history anew. Sri Lanka's innings lasted just 13.5 overs in Durban.

All 9 test teams including Australia, India, England had the 'record' of getting all out within 50 runs. The rest were new Test teams Afghanistan, Zimbabwe (51) and Sri Lanka.

The Proteas entered the embarrassing list by dismissing Sri Lanka for less than fifty at Kingsmead in Durban. Proteas right-arm pacer Marco Jansen took 7 wickets for 13 runs in 6.5 overs, the best of any South African pacer in the current century. Only two of Sri Lanka's 11 batsmen have reached double figures. 5 people got out for zero runs.

Today was the second day in the first of the two-Test series. Sri Lanka was very relieved after wrapping up the first innings of the host South Africa for 191 runs. But they hit at the beginning of their innings. Dimuth Karunaratne was caught out by Kagiso Rabada in the third over. In the fourth over, Marco Jansen dismissed Pathum Nishanka. Then one by one the batsmen returned to the pavilion. After the fall of the fourth wicket for 16 runs, Kamindu Mendis and Dhananjaya tried to put up some resistance but it did not last.

Sri Lanka lost the sixth, seventh and even eighth wickets for the team's 32 runs. However, by then they had left behind the lowest Test score (26, New Zealand). However, after losing 8 wickets for 32 runs, there is a strong fear of being all out less than fifty. In the end, Lahiru Kumara and Biswa Fernando made a pair of 10 runs, but Jansen came and took the last two wickets in two balls. Sri Lanka's innings stopped in 13.5 overs.

Only once in Test history has an innings ended with fewer balls. South Africa were bowled out for 30 runs in 75 balls against England at Edgbaston in 1924. Although Sri Lanka failed to break that record, their innings against South Africa will go down in history as an embarrassing chapter.

Although Sri Lanka could not break that record in this journey, South Africa rightly put the Asian country in the discomfort of an all-out with the lowest number of runs against them. The Proteas had previously bowled out New Zealand for the minimum of 45 runs, in the Cape Town Test in 2013.