Jacob Duffy the slayer as Sri Lanka suffer horror collapse
New Zealand fight back with bat and ball for eight-run win in series opener
New Zealand fight back with bat and ball for eight-run win in series opener
Scorer: M Venkat Raghav | Commentator: Andrew Miller
11.16pm Right, that's your lot. Remarkable game. We're back again on Monday for the second T20I. From Miller and Venkat, good night!
11.09pm Shane: "Duffy the Lanka Slayer!" Oh very good... presentations coming up.
Jacob Duffy is indeed the Player of the Match: "Big opening partnership, brought midwicket up to create something, it came off... We know these conditions pretty well, after a lot of cricket in Asia, it was cool to get [some pace and bounce]."
Charith Asalanka: "Very disappointed, we should have done better. Pathum and Kusal batted well, the rest including me should take responsibility for this loss. We hope to come back really well. I thought we could have done better in bowling and fielding but it was a decent pitch and when the openers were batting it looked easy."
Mitchell Santner: "Game of two halves, set up by Daryl and Beast, then tried to put pressure on batters coming in. Their left-arm seamer bowled well, but when you lose wickets in clumps it's hard to get starts. Massive partnership for us, soaked it up then put the pressure back on to put up a pretty good score. Can we try to take wickets? The run rate was around 8s, but some aggressive bowling with aggressive fields, and midwicket up, Duff changed the game."
Sampath notes that Sri Lanka's win probability after 13.1 overs was 98.13 % Yikes
11.04pm Well blow me down... New Zealand were 65 for 5 and floundering in the first innings... Sri Lanka were 121 and cruising in the second. But a fast-paced century stand from Bracewell and Mitchell changed the former picture, before Jacob Duffy's three in four balls tore up Sri Lanka's comfortable chase. Pathum Nissanka's 90 from 60 would have won it at a canter with any support beyond Mendis's 46 at the top. Instead the next highest score was ... 8! Matt Henry provided the wise old head at the death, and Zak Foulkes capped his first home international with a final over to remember!
Sajid: "To the Kiwi fans, you're most welcome! I would love to take all the credit of jinxing the innings to myself, but I extend my gratitude to the Sri Lankan middle order for doing the thing that only they can do! "
Yashi: "What just happened here??!!! SL was 96/0 in 10 overs.. unbelievable!! :("
Udam: "Discipline of bowlers cost the match for Sri Lanka. You could be a slinger and fascinating but end of the day you need to give your maximum effort consistently in international arena."
Vasumathy : "This is called stealing defeat from the jaws of victory!"
PW Hasaranga run out 5 (8m 2b 1x4 0x6) SR: 250.00
Krithika : "1st innings (NZ Setting) : SL bossed the 1st half and NZ regained momentum in the 2nd half 2nd innings (SL Chasing) : SL bossed the 1st half and NZ regained momentum in the 2nd half "
M Theekshana c Duffy b Foulkes 1 (4m 2b 0x4 0x6) SR: 50.00
Foulkes with the final over... Santner and Henry in consultation...
New Zealand fight back with bat and ball for eight-run win in series opener
The rest of the squad for the three-T20I series wears a familiar look, with Dinesh Chandimal getting another go