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The Ashes have been lost which, as expected, have left a few casualties in their wake. Many fresh faces have been given a nod for the New Zealand tour on the back of their performances in the County Championship.
Sri Lanka won the toss and decided to bat against New Zealand in the 3rd and final T20I of the series at the Pallekele International Cricket Stadium, Kandy today.
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Sri Lanka won the toss and decided to bat against New Zealand at the Pallekele International Cricket Stadium, Kandy in the 2nd T20I.
Sri Lanka won the toss and decided to bat against New Zealand in the 1st T20I at Kandy today.
The 120 points on offer for the two-match series were split equally between the two teams as the caravan now moves towards the T20Is.
Clearly, New Zealand are not batting again and if they win indeed, they will win by an innings. But for that, they need to put in Sri Lanka to bat quite early on the last day and their spinners have to deliver.
Skipper Karunaratne (49*) took a gutsy decision of batting first under cloudy conditions and took the shine off the new ball. The score could have read much worse if it was not for his perseverance.
It is a huge win for Sri Lanka in terms of the Test Championship. This being only a two-match series, the Lions have bagged 60 valuable points.
Sri Lanka now need 135 runs to go one up in the series and unless they implode, there is every chance of a Sri Lankan win before Tea on day 5, weather permitting.
When the game was finally called off due to bad light, New Zealand were at 195-7 and lead by 177 runs. A total of around 230 will challenge the Sri Lankan batsmen on a pitch that is still not too bad for batting.
Both Taylor and Dananjaya channelized their frustration to dish out commendable performances on day 1.
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