Blackcaps v Sri Lanka

[Cyclops]

Well played Sri Lanka, executed better at the critical moments.

[nzzp]

Match report.
Good fun day out. EP is small straight, but you can still play there. Crowd vocal and kinda fun. Weather glorious - you gamble in April, but it worked out.

Sri Lanka batted well, but fell away at the end. We did not bowl well I don't think.

We batted poorly, then got outselves ahead before collapsing. Felt like a long tail. Sodhi was clutch with his six.

Super overs - the straight hit by Chapman that hit the stumps could have been the difference. In the end though, not much in it and Sri Lanka won the key few moments.

Fun day out, just don't care enough about T20 to be upset that we lost!

[dogmeat]

NZ chasing 142 in the second installment of (s)hit & giggle cricket after SL were bowled out in the 19th with Adam Milne taking 5.

the Lankan's were 99-3 in the 13th over so a mega collapse.

[Chris B.]

@dogmeat Career best international figures for Milne.

Three wickets and a dropped catch in his final over.

[nzzp]

@Chris-B said in Blackcaps v Sri Lanka:

Career best international figures for Milne.

Third best figures for BLack Caps bowling ( third bloke to take 5 in an innings. Fun fact: Southee's 5/18 included a maiden! In a T20! I will use two exclamation points to show how impressed I am)

[dogmeat]

ll over in the 15th. NZ lose one wicket Seifert 73NO off 43

[Damo]

SL making a slightly streaky start but are looking OK at 38-0 after 5 overs.

[Crucial]

Best cricket ground going

[Gunner]

Siefert goes softly for 88, the very next ball after an idiot commentator mentioned him maybe getting 100.

[booboo]

Lankans hanging in.

Mitch and Chapman not timing the big shots.

17 from 12 req

[Gunner]

Mitchell and Chapman really struggling to get the ball away.
What looking like a cruise to the end now is squeaky bum time.
17 needed from the last 12 balls

[booboo]

@Gunner great minds

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13 from 9

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11 from 7

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Need bdy

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10 from the 20th

[Gunner]

These two have faced 24 balls between them, not one boundary.

Pressure right on, 10 from 6

[booboo]

Chappie 6!

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4 from 5

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Out

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