Black Caps vs Sri Lanka

Disappointing finish after the start Ravindra and Chapman gave us.

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.

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.

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.

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...

We should have scored another 30 or 40.

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

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

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

Jeez. These guys can't catch.

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

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

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 !

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

Sri Lanka 136-9.

The "catches" ranged from comical to sublime.

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

@Duluth said in Black Caps vs Sri Lanka:

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

I hope they can put something decent on the board.

An evening watching our boys chase a big score would be quite appealing.

That is an extremely strong batting line up when you consider Matt Henry would bat 8 for lots of teams.

Looks like we'll have a score to chase today

Seems the size of crowd perfectly suited to a 10k cricket oval.

@KiwiMurph I am not sure why the played the ODI in Wellington at the Basin, but I am glad they did. Much better atmosphere when the ground is packed.

@No-Quarter said in Black Caps vs Sri Lanka:

Looks like we'll have a score to chase today

I hope so. Be good to see a big chase for us in the evening. I want to win but I also want to be entertained.

@No-Quarter said in Black Caps vs Sri Lanka:

@KiwiMurph I am not sure why the played the ODI in Wellington at the Basin, but I am glad they did. Much better atmosphere when the ground is packed.

Shit yeah. Sri Lanka are not the kind of drawcard who would get the cake tin even half full. Basin is a much better option

Oh man I hope that injury isn't serious, he is batting so well

Sri Lanka's had plenty of nice starts, their issue has been collapsing after the first wicket. Big test now.

Gutted for Nissanka, love watching a batter with a clean bat do well. Hopefully he makes it back out.

Black craps turning up, school boy catching effort

Henry gets one back and back to 0 catches for the match now. Sri Lanka wobbling big time now.

Henry with 150 ODI wickets. Excellent record.

SL 290/8 from their 50 overs.

Hopefully Eden Parks ridiculously short boundaries come into play when we bat

They were a bit average in the middle but Sri Lanka had a good start and finish, so 290 is a reasonable effort overall. Bit of scoreboard pressure on NZ - should be an interesting chase.

Both openers had no idea

Lucky we bat deep, cos today we might need to

Bloody excellent catch and Mitchell is on his way.

20/3.

Latham in.

I’ve always found it an interesting quirk that Astle, Ryder and Guptil opened in short forms and batted middle order in tests whereas Latham does the opposite.

Without stating the obvious but doing exactly that someone needs a big score here.

@MN5 said in Black Caps vs Sri Lanka:

Latham in.

I’ve always found it an interesting quirk that Astle, Ryder and Guptil opened in short forms and batted middle order in tests whereas Latham does the opposite.

Without stating the obvious but doing exactly that someone needs a big score here.

…..and it wasn’t Latham.

Another brilliant catch and he’s gone for a duck.

Fair to say Hay would have got a better return than Latham's 1 run across 2 ODIs.....

And out.

We are being taught a lesson here on the consequences of not using your feet.

They need just over a run a ball too.

….and as I type this Phillips continues not contributing anything much to the team.

Some very good catching from the Sri Lankans too.

@ACT-Crusader said in Black Caps vs Sri Lanka:

Some very good catching from the Sri Lankans too.

They’re a different team than the last couple of matches. Absolutely fired up and everything is going their way.

We have batting to come but not enough for that kind of total.

Eden Park will save on power as they won't need to turn the lights on!