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Sri Lanka vs New Zealand স্কোরকার্ড, 2nd Test, New Zealand vs Sri Lanka 2018-19
Result · Dec 26 2018, Wed - 03:30 AM (IST)
NEW ZEALAND178, 585/4 decl
SRI LANKA104, 236
New Zealand won by 423 runs
CRR:2.22
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Match Info
| সিরিজ : | Sri Lanka in New Zealand 2018/19 |
| তারিখ: | Dec 26 2018, Wed - 03:30 AM (IST) |
| Country: | New Zealand |
| City: | Christchurch |
| ভেন্যু: | Hagley Oval |
| টস: | Sri Lanka won the toss and elected to bowl. |
| New Zealand Playing XI: | Jeet Raval, Tom Latham, Kane Williamson (c), Ross Taylor, Henry Nicholls, BJ Watling (wk), Colin de Grandhomme, Tim Southee, Ajaz Patel, Neil Wagner, Trent Boult |
| Sri Lanka Playing XI: | Dimuth Karunaratne, Danushka Gunathilaka, Kusal Mendis, Angelo Mathews, Dinesh Chandimal (c), Roshen Silva, Niroshan Dickwella (wk), Dilruwan Perera, Suranga Lakmal, Dushmantha Chameera, Lahiru Kumara |
- New Zealand are undefeated in their last six Tests against Sri Lanka (W5, D1), including a drawn first Test of this season which was the first draw between the sides in over 13 years.
- The only previous meeting between New Zealand and Sri Lanka at Hagley Oval ended in an eight-wicket victory to the Black Caps in the Boxing Day Test of 2014 in what was the first ever Test at the venue.
- New Zealand have lost just one of the previous five Tests played at Hagley Oval (W3, D1), and are undefeated in their last three there (W2, D1), winning the toss and sending the opposition in to bat first on each of those three occasions.
- Sri Lanka will be hunting for a draw or more to secure a third consecutive Test series away from home without defeat, levelling for their longest ever series unbeaten streak away from home.
- Sri Lanka’s opening batsman have scored 27% of all their team’s runs thus far in 2018 (1,206/4,414); only South Africa (29%) and Australia (29%) have had a higher proportion of their runs scored by their first two batsmen (min. 2 Tests).
- New Zealand had won three Test series on the bounce heading into this series with Sri Lanka, and a victory in this Test would secure for them a fourth consecutive Test series win for the first time in their history.
- New Zealand’s Tim Southee (232) needs just two more wickets to eclipse Chris Martin (233) as the third most prolific wicket taker in Black Caps’ history; only Sir Richard Hadlee (431) and Daniel Vettori (361) have taken more.
- Dilruwan Perera’s next wicket will be his 150th in Test cricket for Sri Lanka, becoming just the fourth player to take as many wickets for his side; he’s taken 48 wickets thus far in 2018, his best ever tally in a single calendar year.
- Tom Latham (New Zealand) is the only player to have batted the maximum possible 10 innings from the previous five Tests at Hagley Oval; as a result, his tally of 289 runs at the venue are the second most of any player (Brendon McCullum - 365).
- Kusal Mendis (Sri Lanka) is just 59 runs shy of becoming the second player to score 1000 Test runs in 2018 (Virat Kohli - 1,240); only against Bangladesh (75) does he have a better Test batting average than he does against New Zealand (54.8).
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