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Best performances - Batsmen

TWM Latham
TWM Latham
154(251) 15x4 - 0x6
Control %88%
  • Productive Shot
  • flick
  • 52 runs
  • 3x4 - 0x6
19 15 10 26 34 20 1 29
DM de Silva
109(148) 16x4 - 2x6
Control %82%
  • Productive Shot
  • pull
  • 20 runs
  • 1x4 - 1x6
12 27 18 10 9 12 7 14

Best performances - Bowlers

TG Southee
TG Southee
O29
M7
R63
W4
Eco2.17
RHB
OFFLEG
1W
  • FTFULL TOSS
  • YYORKER
  • FFULL LENGTH
  • GGOOD LENGTH
  • SGSHORT OF GOOD LENGTH
  • SSHORT LENGTH
LHB
LEGOFF
1W1W
1W
TA Boult
TA Boult
O22.2
M6
R75
W3
Eco3.35
RHB
OFFLEG
1W
1W
  • FTFULL TOSS
  • YYORKER
  • FFULL LENGTH
  • GGOOD LENGTH
  • SGSHORT OF GOOD LENGTH
  • SSHORT LENGTH
LHB
LEGOFF
1W

Match Details

Toss

Sri Lanka , elected to bat first

Player Of The Match

Player Of The Series

Series result

2-match series drawn 1-1

Match number

Season

Hours of play (local time)

10:00 start, Lunch 12.00-12.40, Tea 14.40-15.00, Close 15.00

Match days

22,23,24,25,26 August 2019 (5-day match)

Reserve Umpire

Match Referee

Points

New Zealand 60, Sri Lanka 0

Scorer: Ranjith P | Commentator: @saurabh_42

5.05 pm: Right so that ends this series. 26 consecutive Tests in Sri Lanka that have had an outright winner. Lots of great performances in these two games, and points split evenly - which is a fair result. And leaving you with a wonderful stat, courtesy our stats maven Shiva Jayaraman. "At present this is the 'winning-est' of years with at least ten Tests in the entire history of Test cricket." Here are the numbers. There will be more cricket soon, join us for that. Till then, this is Saurabh, signing off on behalf of Ankur and Ranjith.

Kane Williamson: "(on what he did differently from Galle) - Lost the toss! (smiles). But a great effort to push for victory and ultimately come out on the winning side. Naturally when the game starts coming so close, and the light's always a factor here as well this time of the year (you do get tense). But it was an outstanding effort from the first innings itself. And then the batters scored at a rate that allowed us to move the game forward. Great individual contributions that allowed us to get the win. Deserve to be 1-1.

Our bowlers bowled really nicely in the UAE as well, but as a collective they got breakthroughs at key moments. Everybody will gain things personally and as a group our general growth is important. Looking forward to my break, the guys are going for some T20 cricket. The international calendar is busy so the moments you do get some time off to refresh are nice."

Dimuth Karunaratne: "I think it was a pretty good wicket. We needed to be patient and put a big score, 240-odd wasn't enough. We need some partnerships, we keep losing wickets regularly. That's the key. But some positives are there. Dhananjay batted really well. But at the end of the day we need to put our hands up and say we didn't do well. But once the batters get a start, we need to get a big one, like Tom and BJ did. Dhananajay and Dickwella were the biggest positives, and the bowlers also did really well."

BJ Watling is the Man of the Series. - his first ever Man of the Series.

Tom Latham is the Man of the Match. "Nice to contribute, we had partnerships throughout the innings. As a batting unit, we look to do that. I don't think we did anything different (to the first Test). We hadn't played Test cricket in a while so just those little adjustments. Conditions are a lot different over here than they are at home, so it's nice to come over here and contribute. (Dickwella catch) - as soon as I saw him go down, I went to my left. Probably a bit lucky it hit his arm and slowed down. The bowlers did extremely well to get all the wickets."

4.55pm: Time for the presentations.

Lots of you asking questions about the World Test championship and how it works. Our explainer has all the answers. Trust me, really it does.

Suley: "Great to see NZ perform well regardless of Williamson. Great depth"

Pratik: "Really happy with the performance of Southee. Lost his place to Matt Henry in limited overs side, almost has been out of favour in Tests too with Wagner faring well. Well done Sixer Southee. 6 wickets and some handsome Sixes with the bat."

Sandy: "Three matches of ICC Test Championship started same day and all three gave results. Bright future for Test Cricket."

Ashish Agarwal: "@Saurabh, you were the one NZ needed. 2 wickets in 8 balls of your commentary..." - I'm going to be rushing through my visa to see if I can make it in time for the presentation ceremony to pick up my Man of the Match award...

4.44pm: The gloom was setting in - in the sky certainly and perhaps in New Zealand hearts too, but even as the day's play was ending, New Zealand managed to winkle out the last two wickets. The series is at 1-1, and both teams are on 60 points now in the World Test Championship table.

Really remarkable effort by New Zealand to close out victory in a match so heavily affected by rain. It almost looked like the sequence of results in Test cricket in Sri Lanka would be broken, but we now have 26 straight Tests that have had an outright winner in Sri Lanka. Ben Stokes may be keeping Test cricket pumping, and Jofra Archer, Steven Smith, Jasprit Bumrah and Virat Kohli may be grabbing the headlines - but if you want to keep Test cricket alive, hey just play in Sri Lanka! They don't know the meaning of a draw here.

70.2
W
Boult to Embuldeniya, OUT, it's all over! A superb short ball from Trent Boult and New Zealand have squared the series. Fast, rising up awkwardly from back of a length and it's too much for a tailender. He's trying to get out of the way by ducking, but it's homing in on his ribs and he is too slow to get his gloves down. The ball flies off the gloves to second slip

L Embuldeniya c Williamson b Boult 5 (20m 11b 1x4 0x6) SR: 45.45

70.1
4
Boult to Embuldeniya, FOUR, full ball on the pads and imperiously flicked to the square leg fence. Top shot. And it shows that he's not going to be hesitant even though they are nine down.

END OF OVER:
70 | 1 Run 1 Wkt | SL: 118/9

  • Lahiru Kumara0 (3b)
  • Lasith Embuldeniya1 (9b)
  • Ajaz Patel19-3-31-2
  • Trent Boult14-8-13-1
69.6
0
Patel to Kumara, no run, turning in sharply from outside off, jabbed back to the bowler
69.5
0
Patel to Kumara, no run,
69.4
0
Patel to Kumara, no run,
69.3
W
Patel to Dickwella, OUT, Dickwella is distraught but he he has to leave. That was against the run of play completely. He had looked so much in control, especially when sweeping. And outstanding anticipation by Tom Latham. So this was a fuller one outside off, Dickwella's been fetching sweeps from there all innings long, this time he gets a top edge. Latham runs from backward short leg to leg slip even as Dickwella was shaping to play the shot and grabbed it.

N Dickwella c Latham b Patel 51 (211m 161b 6x4 0x6) SR: 31.67

Sri Lanka 3rd innings Partnerships

WktRunsPlayers
1st0MDKJ PereraHDRL Thirimanne
2nd4MDKJ PereraBKG Mendis
3rd7AD MathewsBKG Mendis
4th11DM de SilvaBKG Mendis
5th10N DickwellaBKG Mendis
6th41FDM KarunaratneN Dickwella
7th2MDK PereraN Dickwella
8th40RAS LakmalN Dickwella
9th3N DickwellaL Embuldeniya
10th4CBRLS KumaraL Embuldeniya

ICC World Test Championship

TeamMWLDPTSWRpWr
AUS1484233221.392
IND17124152051.577
ENG21117344241.120
NZ1174042031.281
PAK1245328630.822
SL1226420010.729
WI1338219410.661
SA1358026420.787
BAN70612000.601