Player of the Match
Player of the Match

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Best performances - Batsmen

TL Seifert
88(48) 10x4 - 3x6
Control %72%
  • Productive Shot
  • cut shot
  • 22 runs
  • 2x4 - 1x6
8 8 1 12 13 0 11 35
BKG Mendis
BKG Mendis
73(48) 6x4 - 5x6
Control %69%
  • Productive Shot
  • flick
  • 16 runs
  • 1x4 - 1x6
9 5 7 6 3 7 6 30

Best performances - Bowlers

CBRLS Kumara
CBRLS Kumara
O3.5
M0
R38
W3
Eco9.91
RHB
OFFLEG
1W
1W
  • FTFULL TOSS
  • YYORKER
  • FFULL LENGTH
  • GGOOD LENGTH
  • SGSHORT OF GOOD LENGTH
  • SSHORT LENGTH
LHB
LEGOFF
1W
BG Lister
O4
M0
R37
W2
Eco9.25
RHB
OFFLEG
1W
1W
  • FTFULL TOSS
  • YYORKER
  • FFULL LENGTH
  • GGOOD LENGTH
  • SGSHORT OF GOOD LENGTH
  • SSHORT LENGTH
LHB
LEGOFF

Scorer: M Venkat Raghav | Commentator: Fidel Fernando (@afidelf)

That's it for our live coverage of this tour. Stick around for Madushka Balasuriya's match report. And of course, join us for the IPL fun. Till then, take it easy.

Tom Latham: "They put us under a bit of pressure bowling first, and it was good to see the guys respond to that and keep them to a total that was a little below par. Seifert got the required rate down to seven in the last six or seven overs, which was really important. It was a little tight, but we got the result. When you're chasing you know the equation, and on a really good wicket it was really hard to defend. There's some big pockets out there so the twos come into play as well.

"It was really good to see new guys come in and perform. It shows the depth in New Zealand. It was nice to see Chad Bowes and Ben Lister going about their jobs."

Dasun Shanaka: "We were 10-15 runs short today. That was the main lack, on the batting side. New Zealand did really well in the series.

[On the decision to bowl Kumara in the last over]: "We need to make a decision whether I was bowling or Lahiru, but we decided to go with the main fast bowler."

"The main adjustment was the conditions. When we come here again we must make sure we come two or three weeks before."

Seifert is also player of the series, having hit 79 in Dunedin as well: "I didn't get off to the best start in the series, but that happens. In Dunedin Chad took a lot of pressure off me getting a fast start. My cricket's been going well, but importantly we are getting the wins. If I'm not keeping I do back myself to be in the team just as a batter. I'm not going to Pakistan (he's got a baby on the way), so the real work is about to start."

Tim Seifert, is Player of the Match: "We got ahead of the run rate, and sometimes you do go down the gears a bit. It's a balance. The over I got out was the one we were going to target to get 10 or 20 runs. And we saw later that it takes only a couple of wickets for the bowling side to get back into the game as well."

Zubair Islam : "SL scored only 3 runs in the last over.... that's where they lost the match ". It was a poor finish, but also the bowling wasn't particularly varied or impressive to Seifert early on. There was some poor fielding and a dropped catch as well.

All up, a poor tour for Sri Lanka. They were completely outclassed in the ODIs, made a big charge in one Test, but were beaten soundly in the other. The T20 series was their most competitive, with many of New Zealand's stars away at the IPL. And even there, they managed just the one win via the Super Over - their only victory in the six weeks they've been in New Zealand.

Shehan: "In that missed run out, there was a fielder behind the stumps in the bowler's end who was jumping up and down without backing up and breaking the stumps."

Phew! Another tight finish in a summer of tight finishes in New Zealand. There were the two Tests that came down to the last ball, and then the Super Over in the T20 in Auckland. This one didn't come down to the last one, but Sri Lanka fought back brilliantly in the last few overs to make a game of it.

19.5
2
Kumara to Ravindra, 2 runs, Ravindra does what's required. This is short, wide-ish of off stump. He cuts it in the gap between deep point and deep third, and there's plenty of time for a couple there. Well struck.
19.4
1b
Kumara to Milne, 1 bye, they've run a bye.Oh my lord. Mendis misses the stumps with his overarm throw. Kumara collects and tries to underarm the stumps at the non-striker's but misses. That could have been the game there. This had been a short ball that Milne threw his bat at and missed

A manic finish here, after New Zealand cruised for so much of it.

19.3
W
Kumara to Mitchell, OUT, another wicket! A team hat-trick, and this is getting hectic. This is a short ball just wide of off. Mitchell tries to flat bat it down the ground, with both mid on and mid off up in the circle. But it goes hiiigh off his tip edge, and Shanaka settles under it, and takes it above his head.

DJ Mitchell c Shanaka b Kumara 15 (34m 16b 0x4 0x6) SR: 93.75

19.3
W
Kumara to Neesham, 1 wide, OUT, run out! I think Neesham is gone here.This is a very wide yorker, just inside the tram lines. They try to run a bye, but the keeper throws the ball back to Kumara, who throws down the non-striker's stumps to find Neesham a few inches short. It's called a wide, though, so New Zealand got something out of that ball.

JDS Neesham run out 0 (2m 0b 0x4 0x6) SR: -

New Zealand need just three to tie, four to win. Neesham on strike.

Sri Lanka, you'd expect, would need another wicket here to really make a game of this.

19.2
W
Kumara to Chapman, OUT, he's gone now, though. Is there another twist here? This is a length ball, 140kph, and Chapman tries to pummel this over the legside again, and can only get a top edge to the ball. It floats towards cover, where Asalanka takes a good catch, backpedaling.

MS Chapman c Asalanka b Kumara 16 (22m 12b 1x4 1x6) SR: 133.33

19.1
6
Kumara to Chapman, SIX, superb from Chapman. That's a slow ball, but Chapman was expecting it, and gets under it, because Kumara has pitched it short and he has bashed that high just in front of square on the legside.

Lahiru Kumara to bowl the last over. There was a big team meeting and he's ended up with the ball.

New Zealand 2nd innings Partnerships

WktRunsPlayers
1st53CJ BowesTL Seifert
2nd84TWM LathamTL Seifert
3rd17DJ MitchellTL Seifert
4th25DJ MitchellMS Chapman
5th1JDS NeeshamDJ Mitchell
6th0DJ MitchellR Ravindra
7th3AF MilneR Ravindra