Black Caps vs Sri Lanka

[Canes4life]

And Ravindra gives his wicket away again after a loose shot. If he had Kane’s patience he’d be unstoppable.

Solid innings nevertheless. Gone for 79.

[KiwiMurph]

Sick contribution Latham - really justifying your inclusion over Hay.....

[frugby]

@Canes4life said in Black Caps vs Sri Lanka:

With the Champions Trophy coming up I hope Young keeps his spot ahead of Conway. Williamson will likely come in for Chapman which is hard to dispute but Conway has chosen to commit to other leagues so by default he should lose his spot.

I would also like to see Bracewell come in for Phillips. I feel like Bracewell is a little more devastating with the bat and Phlllips has been pretty poor of late.

They will both play I think. Bracewell will come in for Smith, and will bat at 7.

[Gunner]

Disappointing finish after the start Ravindra and Chapman gave us.

[No Quarter]

Hard to say what a par score is in a 37 over match, but it feels like we've ended up with about that. Competitive, but Sri Lanka will more than back themselves to chase it down.

[No Quarter]

Needed more from Mitchell at the end there. Need Henry to smack 20 odd off this last over and then come out and roll them.

[Bones]

For a change the batsmen deliver for the most part and the tail fail for the most part and I'm still disappointed in a BCs collapse. After forty fucking years I'm still a moron.

[Bovidae]

Limped home in the end. NZ will need to get early wickets as it is hard to defend on this ground. But runs on the board...

[Damo]

We should have scored another 30 or 40.

On the other hand at this stage it looks like enough.

[Gunner]

BC’s right on top, SL imploding with 3 wickets in 5 balls to be 22/4

[1kiwi]

Smith lucky his brain explosion didn't end up costing much.

[MN5]

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[Rapido]

Jeez. These guys can't catch.

Although, it is only fair that ex-buckethands, now-butterfingers, Mitchell cops a drop off his bowling.

[MN5]

RRR is 10.59.

This game will just peter out and Sri Lanka will try for a bit of batting practice judging how they’ve played Smiths over

[MN5]

Ok maybe not. Nice from Kamindu hitting chrome dome for a couple of fours to get 50

I’ve realised I haven’t seen Mitchell without a helmet or cap for years, definitely resembles his Dad !

[MN5]

Nathan Smith just took the most amazing catch you’ll ever see.

Sri Lanka 136-9.

[Bovidae]

The "catches" ranged from comical to sublime.

[Duluth]

Sri Lanka:
1 Pathum Nissanka, 2 Avishka Fernando, 3 Kusal Mendis (wk), 4 Kamindu Mendis, 5 Charith Asalanka (capt.), 6 Janith Liyanage, 7 Chamindu Wickramasinghe, 8 Wanindu Hasaranga, 9 Maheesh Theekshana, 10 Eshan Malinga, 11 Asitha Fernando

New Zealand:
1 Will Young, 2 Rachin Ravindra, 3 Mark Chapman, 4 Daryl Mitchell, 5 Tom Latham (wk), 6 Glenn Phillips, 7 Michael Bracewell, 8 Mitchell Santner (capt.), 9 Nathan Smith, 10 Matt Henry, Will O'Rourke

Sri Lanka choose to bat first