Quote from: As-Soon-As on Today at 09:37:07 AM

Quote from: Haunebu on Today at 09:27:46 AM

Looks like Sri Lanka managed to avoid a whitewash in a convincing manner. NZ were clearly overdependent on Ravindra and Chapman in the batting department while their bowling department performed really well overall.
Fernando, Theekshana and Malinga bowled well in this match, but Theekshana was their best bowler in this series in my opinion.

Sri Lanka set a target of 290 runs for New Zealand in this match, which was a big target for New Zealand. However, it was never imagined that New Zealand would lose by such a margin. Despite winning the previous two matches by huge margins, New Zealand lost by 140 runs in this match, the top batsmen were easily dismissed, especially the opening batsmen. The New Zealand team had a poor performance in both bowling and batting.

This match was not important for New Zealand. Because New Zealand team had won the first two matches of the series. New Zealand had already won the series. So I think New Zealand players did not give full effort in this match.

However, Sri Lankan batsmen played very well in this match. If Sri Lankan batsmen could have batted decently in the last two matches, then maybe Sri Lanka would not have lost the series. In the first match, Sri Lanka gave a target of only 179 runs. And in the second innings, Sri Lanka had collected only 142 runs.