Sri Lanka team won the toss and decided to bat first to avoid whitewash in the third ODI match. The Sri Lankan batsmen have batted responsibly in today's match. Due to the responsible batting of the Sri Lankan batsmen, the Sri Lankan team gave New Zealand a target of 290 runs. The Sri Lankan batsmen performed brilliantly against New Zealand today which led Sri Lanka to win the 3rd ODI against New Zealand by a huge margin of 140 runs. The New Zealand batsmen were put under a lot of pressure after losing wickets at the beginning when they came down to bat against the target of 290 runs given by the Sri Lankan team. Mark Chapman scored the highest runs for the New Zealand team. Mark Chapman got out with 81 runs from 81 balls. Except this batsman, no other batsman could collect such a good song, due to which the New Zealand team was all out for 150 runs against Sri Lanka.
I don't understand how Sri Lanka perform one performance once in a while and then they just bogged down for the next few matches. This is just a lack of consistency or some other issue in the team management that needs to be addressed properly.
In this match, the Sri Lanka team batted so well, Pathum Nissanka made 66 runs. Even Kusal Mendis, Kamindu Mendis and Janith Liyanage who failed in pervious matches, made 50 or near to 50 runs in this match. Also when Sri Lanka came to bowl, they were looking a different side. Asitha Fernando, Maheesh Theekshana and Eshan Malinga took three wickets each and did not let the NZ team to bat in this innings.