Black Caps vs Sri Lanka

[No Quarter]

Hard to say what a par score is in a 37 over match, but it feels like we've ended up with about that. Competitive, but Sri Lanka will more than back themselves to chase it down.

[No Quarter]

Needed more from Mitchell at the end there. Need Henry to smack 20 odd off this last over and then come out and roll them.

[Bones]

For a change the batsmen deliver for the most part and the tail fail for the most part and I'm still disappointed in a BCs collapse. After forty fucking years I'm still a moron.

[Bovidae]

Limped home in the end. NZ will need to get early wickets as it is hard to defend on this ground. But runs on the board...

[Damo]

We should have scored another 30 or 40.

On the other hand at this stage it looks like enough.

[Gunner]

BC’s right on top, SL imploding with 3 wickets in 5 balls to be 22/4

[1kiwi]

Smith lucky his brain explosion didn't end up costing much.

[MN5]

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[Rapido]

Jeez. These guys can't catch.

Although, it is only fair that ex-buckethands, now-butterfingers, Mitchell cops a drop off his bowling.

[MN5]

RRR is 10.59.

This game will just peter out and Sri Lanka will try for a bit of batting practice judging how they’ve played Smiths over

[MN5]

Ok maybe not. Nice from Kamindu hitting chrome dome for a couple of fours to get 50

I’ve realised I haven’t seen Mitchell without a helmet or cap for years, definitely resembles his Dad !

[MN5]

Nathan Smith just took the most amazing catch you’ll ever see.

Sri Lanka 136-9.

[Bovidae]

The "catches" ranged from comical to sublime.

[Duluth]

Sri Lanka:
1 Pathum Nissanka, 2 Avishka Fernando, 3 Kusal Mendis (wk), 4 Kamindu Mendis, 5 Charith Asalanka (capt.), 6 Janith Liyanage, 7 Chamindu Wickramasinghe, 8 Wanindu Hasaranga, 9 Maheesh Theekshana, 10 Eshan Malinga, 11 Asitha Fernando

New Zealand:
1 Will Young, 2 Rachin Ravindra, 3 Mark Chapman, 4 Daryl Mitchell, 5 Tom Latham (wk), 6 Glenn Phillips, 7 Michael Bracewell, 8 Mitchell Santner (capt.), 9 Nathan Smith, 10 Matt Henry, Will O'Rourke

Sri Lanka choose to bat first

[MN5]

@Duluth said in Black Caps vs Sri Lanka:

Sri Lanka:
1 Pathum Nissanka, 2 Avishka Fernando, 3 Kusal Mendis (wk), 4 Kamindu Mendis, 5 Charith Asalanka (capt.), 6 Janith Liyanage, 7 Chamindu Wickramasinghe, 8 Wanindu Hasaranga, 9 Maheesh Theekshana, 10 Eshan Malinga, 11 Asitha Fernando

New Zealand:
1 Will Young, 2 Rachin Ravindra, 3 Mark Chapman, 4 Daryl Mitchell, 5 Tom Latham (wk), 6 Glenn Phillips, 7 Michael Bracewell, 8 Mitchell Santner (capt.), 9 Nathan Smith, 10 Matt Henry, Will O'Rourke

Sri Lanka choose to bat first

I hope they can put something decent on the board.

An evening watching our boys chase a big score would be quite appealing.

That is an extremely strong batting line up when you consider Matt Henry would bat 8 for lots of teams.

[No Quarter]

Looks like we'll have a score to chase today

[KiwiMurph]

Seems the size of crowd perfectly suited to a 10k cricket oval.

[No Quarter]

@KiwiMurph I am not sure why the played the ODI in Wellington at the Basin, but I am glad they did. Much better atmosphere when the ground is packed.