New Zealand team came to Sri Lanka to playtest series and One-day series. Ari Lanka had a worst 2019 world cup tournament as they are even not qualified for the semi-final. There are old faces for Sri Lankan in the Test squad against New Zealand. Due to poor form, Team Sri Lanka comes with old teams to see how senior player will help them.
New Zealand team have qualified for the semi-final and also they have beaten India in the semi-final to reach final against England. In the final match, they get a huge upset as they had a result on the basis of Maximum boundary and with that England had a maximum boundary. So, team England finally wins a final and 2019 World cup.
First ODI between Sri Lanka and New Zealand was played at Galle. After winning the toss skipper Kane Williamson decided to bat first and so even they get a good start from their opener. Jeet Rawal and Tom Latham had made a 50 runs partnership before Latham back to pavilion after playing an innings of 30 in the bowling of Akila Dananjaya. In the same over Akila Dananjaya departs Kane Williamson at a duck.
Kane Williamson was so upset with his poor short and with this Akila Dananjaya departs 5 new Zealand batsman and so new Zealand was 203 per five Before the stumps of day 1. From the New Zealand side, Ross Taylor single-handed keep the scorecard continues as he played a brilliant knock of 86 runs and remain not out till the stump 1. Due to rain-interrupted, the first day was just for 68 years.
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