FIRST the sri lanka won the toss and elected to bowl first due to reason of the strong bowling attack they have and this strategy looking good when nz lose their first wicket in 2nd over when tim robinson bowled by wellalage and after a short break theekshana got another breakthrough and and bowled nicholls in 8th
over nz team were on that point 31/2 and there comes a shot partnership b/w will young and chapman dropping a catch but it does not effect sl because the got the break through in 17th over by vandersay and then the rain comes and due to dLs method the overs reduced to 47 overs after the rain sl missed another shining chance of glenn phillips by maheesha theekshana but the run rate after the 30 overs was looking slow when nz team made only 113/4 chapman was the hope sign for the nz team when he made 50 for 41 deliveries after the innings the nz scored 209/10 the the star batter was mark chapman when he made 76 of 81 deliveries.the target was the 210 for 47 overs
SRILANKA BATTING:
THE target was looking so easy for the sl batting but santner got a break through of avishka fernando on 5th over on the runs of 23 and the after short break bracewell got another wicket of in form pathum nissanka and then suddenly the wicket of kamindu mendis was fall the sl batting looking in trouble on the end of 21st over the sl team was on 85/4 in 22nd over the philips got a wicket of samarawickrama after it there comes a little contribution of k mendis and liyanage and liyanage falls on 132/6 and then on the other hand k mendis completed his anchor fifty on 83 balls after a short contribution wellalage departs and then M theekshana comes and finished with the mendis.congratulations for the sl team for winning the by 2-0 in 3 ODI matches!
