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.

The 3rd and the last game of the three-match T20I series between Sri Lanka and New Zealand will be played at the Pallekele International Cricket Stadium in Pallekele.

Sri Lanka won the toss and decided to bat against New Zealand at the Pallekele International Cricket Stadium, Kandy in the 2nd T20I.

The 2nd T20I of the three-match T20I series between Sri Lanka and New Zealand will be played at the Pallekele International Cricket Stadium in Pallekele.

Sri Lanka won the toss and decided to bat against New Zealand in the 1st T20I at Kandy today.

The 1st T20I of the thre-match T20I series between Sri Lanka and New Zealand will be played at the Pallekele International Cricket Stadium in Pallekele.

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.

Despite Tom Latham's dogged century, New Zealand trail by 48 runs and a first innings lead of 50 will hold them in good stead.

A total of 114 overs have been already lost in the match but due to the conditions being conducive for bowling, even if we get half of game time on the three remaining days, we have a match on our hands.

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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.

The 2nd Test between Sri Lanka and New Zealand will be played at the P Sara Oval in Colombo....

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.

At 161-7, it looked as if Sri Lanka might concede a big first-innings lead but wicketkeeper-batsman Niroshan Dickwella joined hands with Suranga Lakmal to put up a brave front.

Both Taylor and Dananjaya channelized their frustration to dish out commendable performances on day 1.

New Zealand would derive confidence for the two-match Test series against Sri Lanka from their prized out victory in similar conditions against Pakistan last year in UAE.