Sri Lanka’s more embarrassing defeat, New Zealand clean sweep in ODI series 3-0.
NewZealand won the last match of the three-match odi series against Sri Lanka by 115 runs. With this victory, NewZealand have also cleaned up 3-0 in the series. Ross Taylor, who scored 137 in the first innings, was named Man of the Match. The third ODI was played at Nelson’s Saxton Oval .
Sri Lanka won the toss and invited NewZealand to bat first and the Kiwis kept the difficult target of 365 runs in front of Sri Lanka. check full highlight of sri lanka vs newzealand in odi
newzealand inning highlights
Senior batsman Ross Taylor made his 20th century of the ODI career and scored 131 runs with 9 fours and four sixes in 131 balls. and He was also selected Man of the Match for this innings. After the fall of Martin Guptill (2) and Colin Munro (21), captain Kane Williamson and Ross Taylor handled the innings together. later Williamson was dismissed by 55 runs. After this, there was tremendous partnership between Taylor and Henry Nichols. These two together laid the foundations of the big scores.
Nicholas returned to the knot with a score of 124 and hit 12 fours and three sixes in 80 balls. Captain Lasith Malinga took three wickets from Sri Lanka At the same time, Perera, the third player from Sri Lanka, contributed the highest 80 runs. Dikewala (46) and Dhananjay D’Silva (36) started well but were not able to play a big innings. The whole team of Sri Lanka was reduced to 249 runs in 41.4 overs. Lockie Ferguson took four and Ish Sodhi got three wickets.
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New Zealand won the first one-dayer 45, second ODI 21 runs. In addi, New Zealand won 1-0 in the two-match Test series. Now the only T20 match between the two teams is to be played on 11 January.
