Statistics
Best performances - Batsmen
KC Sangakkara
79(103) 8x4 - 1x6
Control %84%
- Productive Shot
- leg glance
- 25 runs
- 2x4 - 0x6
06/01Result
4th ODI (D/N), Sri Lanka tour of New Zealand at Auckland, Jan 6 2007
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![Sri Lanka]( "Sri Lanka")
262/6 -
![New Zealand]( "New Zealand")
73 (26.3/50 ov)
Player of the Match
06/01Result
4th ODI (D/N), Sri Lanka tour of New Zealand at Auckland, Jan 6 2007
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![Sri Lanka]( "Sri Lanka")
262/6 -
![New Zealand]( "New Zealand")
73 (26.3/50 ov)
Player of the Match
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Match Details
Toss
Sri Lanka , elected to bat first
Player Of The Match
Series result
5-match series level 2-2
Match number
Season
Hours of play (local time)
14.00 start, First Session 14.00-17.30 Interval 17.30-18.15, Second Session 18.15-21.45
Match days
6 January 2007 - day/night match (50-over match)
Umpires
TV Umpires
Reserve Umpire
Match Referee
Scorecard Summary
SRI LANKA 262/6 (50 OVERS)
- Sanath Jayasuriya70 (44)
- Kumar Sangakkara79 (103)
- Shane Bond2/47 (10)
- Mark Gillespie3/39 (10)
NEW ZEALAND 73 (26.3 OVERS)
- Craig McMillan*29 (64)
- Brendon McCullum17 (13)
- Lasith Malinga3/14 (8)
- Chaminda Vaas3/10 (8)
So that's it then. All over in a blink. First Jayasuriya climbed all over New Zealand bowlers with a manic 70. If the bowlers thought they had got out of the slaughter house after Jayasuriya's fall, their batsmen were thrown into one. One by one, they surrendered. Vaas harassed them with swing. He would keep taking it away before bending one back in to trap them in front. Maling gunned for the toes and throats and Murali too joined in the carnage to wrap up a series-levelling win for Sri Lanka.
This is Sriram Veera, your commentator for the day, signing off. Join George Binoy on January 9th for the decider.
26.3
W
Muralidaran to Mason, OUT, The series is level! Murali traps Mason with a fullish one. New Zealand are shot out for their second lowest score ever. 74 was that mark and now they have been bundled out, for one run less, by swing of Vaas, pace of Malinga and the guile of Murali. It was tossed up, full, on middle and leg stump line, Mason has a swing across the line and is trapped. It would have hit the leg stump. The series is alive and all to play for in the Tuesday's decider.
MJ Mason lbw b Muralidaran 1 (7m 13b 0x4 0x6) SR: 7.69
'Ray' stings with.: "The infamous JB rotation policy seems to be working well...I wonder how the out-of-form Stephen Fleming now feels about his break from the game?"
26.2
0
Muralidaran to Mason, no run, doosra, on the offstump line, turns away, Mason is beaten trying to sweep
26.1
0
Muralidaran to Mason, no run,
END OF OVER:26 | 1 Run | NZ: 73/9 (190 runs required from 24 overs, RR: 2.80, RRR: 7.91)
- Michael Mason1 (10b)
- Craig McMillan29 (64b)
- Lasith Malinga8-3-14-3
- Muthiah Muralidaran2-0-7-1
25.6
1lb
Malinga to Mason, 1 leg bye, slower one, but drifts down the legside, and it runs away for a legbye
25.5
0
Malinga to Mason, no run, The bails are off. At the non-striker's end though. Nice drive, off a fullish delivery, down the track, Malinga stretches his right hand out, gets a touch and it hits the stumps on the other side. McMillan is inside his crease. No harm done
25.4
0
Malinga to Mason, no run, goes for the ribs, swatted away to the on side. Well played
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