26/12Result

1st Test, Sri Lanka in New Zealand Test Series at Christchurch, Dec 26-29 2014

New Zealand won by 8 wkts

Player of the Match

Brendon McCullumNew Zealand

Match Centre

Statistics

Best performances - Batsmen

BB McCullum

195(134) 18x4 - 11x6

Control %85%

Productive Shot
on drive
33 runs
1x4 - 4x6

FDM Karunaratne

152(363) 17x4 - 0x6

Control %86%

Productive Shot
cut shot
35 runs
6x4 - 0x6

Best performances - Bowlers

TG Southee

O37

R91

Eco2.45

RHB
OFFLEG


	1W
	1W
	1W
		1W

FTFULL TOSS
YYORKER
FFULL LENGTH
GGOOD LENGTH
SGSHORT OF GOOD LENGTH
SSHORT LENGTH

LHB
LEGOFF

TA Boult

O39

R100

Eco2.56

RHB
OFFLEG




1W

FTFULL TOSS
YYORKER
FFULL LENGTH
GGOOD LENGTH
SGSHORT OF GOOD LENGTH
SSHORT LENGTH

LHB
LEGOFF


			1W
		1W
			1W

Match Details

Hagley Oval, Christchurch

Toss

Sri Lanka , elected to field first

Player Of The Match

Brendon McCullum

Series result

New Zealand led the 2-match series 1-0

Match number

Test no. 2151

Season

2014/15

Hours of play (local time)

11am start, Lunch 13.00-13.40, Tea 15.40-16.00, Close 18.00

Match days

26,27,28,29 December 2014 (5-day match)

Scorecard Summary

NEW ZEALAND 441(85.5 OVERS)
1ST INNINGS

Brendon McCullum195 (134)
James Neesham85 (80)

Suranga Lakmal3/90 (19.5)
Angelo Mathews3/39 (12)

SRI LANKA 138(42.4 OVERS)
1ST INNINGS

Angelo Mathews50 (85)
Lahiru Thirimanne24 (59)

Neil Wagner3/60 (11)
Trent Boult3/25 (11)

SRI LANKA 407 f/o(154 OVERS)
2ND INNINGS

Angelo Mathews66 (127)
Dimuth Karunaratne152 (363)

Tim Southee4/91 (37)
Trent Boult4/100 (39)

NEW ZEALAND 107/2(30.4 OVERS)
2ND INNINGS

Ross Taylor*39 (63)
Kane Williamson*31 (75)

Shaminda Eranga1/20 (7)
Tharindu Kaushal1/48 (13)

Time for the presentation:

Angelo Mathews: Our batting didn't step up in the first innings which kept us out of the game. Dimuth showed a lot of character with his first hundred against a quality attack. We will get better and better with time but you can't do much when someone nearly gets a double hundred in a session.

NZ captain Brendon McCullum is also the Man of the Match: Really good all-round performance after losing the toss. We developed some nice partnerships in top and middle order and our seamers make a potent attack. Two of our three seamers bowled really well and they kept running in to get the job done. Really good way to end 2014. The pitch still had a bit in it and our bowlers wanted to bowl when we enforced the follow-on, there were no doubts about that. But credit goes to Sri Lanka for fighting back in the second innings. Every game I'm playing is a bit of a bonus for me. I am happy where I am right now. In the past few months I have tried to improve my weaknesses and it's been good so far. The attitude that every game could be your last helps and I'm pretty lucky to have the batting quality around me, everyone has been standing up. Our focus is how were are progressing as a group.

That's all we have from the first Test, wish you all a great and prosperous 2015 and do join us for the second Test in Wellington starting 3rd January. Enjoy the other two Boxing Day Tests until then, buh-bye!

4.30pm A comprehensive win for New Zealand to end the year and quite a few players chipped in performnces - McCullum's 195 (of course), 80-ball 85 from Neesham and they took a massive lead of 303 runs because of their swing bowlers Boult and Southee. Karunaratne's maiden Test hundred led SL's fightback on the third day but the trail was too much to get on top of, and Boult and Southee did it again in the second innings. NZ end the year with five wins overall, their best so far, and they were unbeaten at home in 2014. SL, meanwhile, end the year with a lost but their win loss ratio was 5:3, so still in their favour.

30.4

Prasad to Taylor, FOUR, that's it, another four as Taylor smashes the fullish delivery straight down the ground past mid off for four to seal the eight-wicket win

30.3

Prasad to Taylor, no run, bouncer just outside off, he pulls and misses

30.2

Prasad to Taylor, FOUR, short and wide and that's been slapped fiercely square of the wicket for four! Crunching sound off the bat

30.1

Prasad to Taylor, no run, strays down the leg side, Taylor glances and it deflects fine down leg where the keeper does well to save a few runs

Just six more runs required

JohnBabcock: "Watching the Aussie India test in parallel. Sri Lankan bowlers are a step up from India's - there is no comparison. "

END OF OVER:
30 | 5 Runs | NZ: 99/2

Kane Williamson31 (75b)
Ross Taylor31 (59b)

Tharindu Kaushal13-0-48-1
Shaminda Eranga7-2-20-1

29.6

Kaushal to Williamson, 2 runs, goes back for the wide delivery outside off and slices it behind square on the off side for two

29.5

Kaushal to Taylor, 1 run, outside off this time, pushed off the back foot towards cover point

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