{"id":147622,"date":"2025-01-18T09:05:06","date_gmt":"2025-01-18T09:05:06","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/websitedesigns.com.au\/elankanew\/?p=147622"},"modified":"2025-01-18T09:05:06","modified_gmt":"2025-01-18T09:05:06","slug":"sri-lanka-forge-comprehensive-win-in-third-odi-vs-kiwis-by-andrew-fidel-fernando","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/websitedesigns.com.au\/elankanew\/sri-lanka-forge-comprehensive-win-in-third-odi-vs-kiwis-by-andrew-fidel-fernando\/","title":{"rendered":"Sri Lanka forge Comprehensive Win in Third ODI vs Kiwis-by Andrew Fidel Fernando"},"content":{"rendered":"

Sri Lanka forge Comprehensive Win in Third ODI vs Kiwis-by Andrew Fidel Fernando<\/span><\/h2>\n

Source:<\/span><\/strong>Thuppahis<\/a><\/span><\/p>\n

In ESPNcricinfo, 9 January 2024<\/a>, where the title reads\u00a0\u201cThree quick fifties and Asitha\u2019s electric new-ball spell give Sri Lanka consolation win\u201d<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n

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Rapid half-centuries from\u00a0Kusal Mendis<\/a>,\u00a0Pathum Nissanka<\/a>\u00a0and\u00a0Janith Liyanage<\/a>\u00a0put Sri Lanka on course to a substantial total, before an electric new-ball spell from\u00a0Asitha Fernando<\/a>\u00a0wrecked New Zealand\u2019s chase.<\/span><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/article>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n

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Asitha swung the ball prodigiously in his five-over opening spell, taking 3 for 17 in that period. By the end of over seven, and chasing 291 for victory, New Zealand were 22 for 5, their chances all but dashed.\u00a0Mark Chapman<\/a> battled bravely for a run-a-ball 81, but had no team-mates to go with him.<\/span><\/div>\n
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Sri Lanka<\/b>\u00a0290 for 8 (Nissanka 66, Kusal 54, Liyanage 53, Henry 4-55, Santner 2-55) beat\u00a0New Zealand<\/b>\u00a0150 (Chapman 81, Asitha 3-26, Malinga 3-35, Theekshana 3-35) by 140 runs<\/i><\/span><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n
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New Zealand soon slipped to 48 for 6, then 77 for 7, and though the last rites took some time, Sri Lanka dismissed the opposition for 150, inside 30 overs. This was the third one-sided game in the series. New Zealand had won the other two.<\/span><\/div>\n
Asitha\u2019s 3 for 26 wasn\u2019t quite a swing-bowling masterclass, as he occasionally struggled with his lines. But it did feature some spectacular deliveries, as he gleaned substantially more swing than any other bowler in the game. The ball to take out Rachin Ravindra\u2019s leg stump was magnificent; Asitha angled it across the left-hander, and got it to tail in very late to slip between bat and pad. All through that new-ball spell, he had that shape to his deliveries. He struck twice in the seventh over, removing Tom Latham and Glenn Phillips, both for ducks.<\/span><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/article>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n

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Pathum Nissanka scored a half-century up top in a two-part innings\u2022AFP\/Getty Images<\/span>
\nAt the other end, Maheesh Theekshana and Eshan Malinga also contributed wickets, dismissing Will Young and Daryl Mitchell respectively. All three of these bowlers ended up taking three wickets apiece. Asitha\u2019s was the best among their final figures.<\/span>
\nMalinga also swung the ball, though not as much as Asitha, and bowled probing lines. Theekshana got turn out of a pitch that the New Zealand spinners had also enjoyed earlier in the match, particularly when they picked their way through Sri Lanka\u2019s middle order. Though it was still Matt Henry who was most penetrative, taking 4 for 55 from his ten overs. Three of those wickets came at the death, but Henry had been instrumental in building pressure through the middle overs too.<\/span>
\nThe first ingredients of Sri Lanka\u2019s 140-run victory, however, were the fifties to Nissanka and Kusal. Nissanka\u2019s 66 off 42 was unusual. He got to 50 off the 31st delivery he played, but as he was completing that run, appeared to pull a hamstring, and left the field at the end of the tenth over. Kusal then replaced him at the crease and reeled off 54 off 48 to salvage what has otherwise been a modest tour for him.<\/span>
\nNissanka, especially, reveled in taking on the short ball. He crashed five sixes and six fours in his innings, coming back to the middle in the 34th over to swing at a few though he was unable to run or reach particularly far outside off. Kusal hit two sixes and five fours, having made all his runs after the initial fielding restrictions had ended.<\/span><\/p>\n

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