Quote from: Rustam Meraj on Today at 07:03:42 AM

Quote from: Cheema02 on Today at 06:22:34 AM

Yes, if we talk about the match odds, New Zealand's odds are better because they are playing in Galle Sir Lanak stadium and Sri Lanka has a home condition advantage. In this first match Sri Lanka won the toss and decided to bat. New Zealand has missed some chances, and Sri Lanka is for 69 in a loss of 2 wickets in the first 24 overs. New Zealand young fast bowles William O’Rourke picked that two important wickets in his first bowling spell. Sri lanka current bastmen Dinesh Chandimal is playing at 24 runs and Angelo Mathews also playing at 12 runs. This partnership between Dinesh Chandimal and Angelo Mathews is very crucial for Sri Lanka if they want to score a huge total in the first inning of a test match.

I think New Zealand is more stronger team as compare to Srilanka team but Srilanka has a chance of winning because they are in home ground. But this is too early to say that.
Srilanka decided to bat first and now there is the lunch time and Srilanka made 88 runs and they have already lost 2 wickets. And according to the current situation if every player will play his role in the match so I think Srilanka can cross 300 runs and I think that will be good score in the first inning. So let's see what Srilanka will do?

The Sri Lankan team is in a good position at the moment as they have collected 148 runs for four wickets. Kamindu Mendis for Sri Lanka he is watching and trying to play patiently, he is going to touch a small milestone if he gets a few more runs. Sri Lanka are playing at home bye I won't put them ahead in this match but they will have home ground advantage in this match but their opponent will be strong New Zealand. Sri Lanka recently played three Test matches against England before this series where they were miserably defeated by England in the first two matches. But when Sri Lanka finally looked like a whitewash, they produced a surprise performance to beat England in the third Test.

Maybe the performance in the last Test match against England will add an extra motivation among the Sri Lankan players which can help them perform well in this match.