Quote from: Farhan99 on Today at 08:22:14 PM

Quote from: Vaskiy on January 04, 2025, 11:46:09 PM

The match between New Zealand and Sri Lanka has begun. The New Zealand team has won the toss and chosen to bowl first. Sri Lanka has lost some early wickets, scoring 82/4 in 20 overs. Fernando: 36* (44) Liyanage: 28* (39) on the crease have built the partnership. The New Zealand team bowlers are good with the ball, trying to keep everything under control. Sri Lanka won the previous ODI series that took place a month back, and this time it looks like New Zealand is winning the series.

In 1st ODi game New Zealand team batted and bowled well and restricted Sri Lanka team on 178 runs. New Zealand bowlers put high pressure on opposite team from start of the innings, four player bowled at just 23 score. Matt Henry took four wickets and Jacob Duffy took dangerous wicket of Champan and Kusal Mendis destroyed Sri Lanka's middle order by taking two wickets. NZ team successfully chased the total in 26 overs with loss of one wicket. Rachin Ravindra and W. Young played more than 90 runs in a winning partnership, which helped their team win the first game of series. W. Young played brilliant inning of 90 runs unbeaten while Rachin Ravindra also played brilliant 45 runs innings. NZ team won game by big wickets margin and they leading the series by 1-0

Previous T20 format competition was finished among New Zealand squad against Sri Lanka squad now ODI format competition has begun and first match of ODI competition was completed today among them. Sri Lanka squad has begun the match first with batting inning and their members managed to collect 178 scores as a defend seem low quality scores they collected. Matt Henry supported their squad in bowling with picking 4 batter wickets also other two Nathan Smith and Jacob Duffy displayed amazing performance with picking 2 and 2 wickets respectively. Rachin Ravindra and Young both made strong performance with collecting 45 and 90 scores.