The cricketers of the Falkland Islands may become regular visitors to Scotland if plans for further stagings of the 'Festival of the Three Falklands' cricket festival are realised.
Last month, teams representing the Falkland Islands, Falkland in Newberry, Berkshire, England and Falkland in Fife, Scotland played a series of matches.
"Tentative plans are in hand to make this triangular tournament a regular feature every 3 to 4 years which would be an excellent idea providing we can manage the logistics of fielding teams for ICC competitions and also for friendly overseas tours," Roger Diggle, Falkland Islands Cricket Association official and player, told Cricinfo.
Although it was in some respects a tournament, it's success wasn't measured by the customary wins and losses. "The Festival of the Three Falklands was a very sociable affair. It started with a traditional Scottish ceilidh (a fancy term for a good meal, lots of drink and Scottish dancing). Speeches were given by representatives of all three clubs and also the provost of Fife, Councillor Frances Melville," Diggle explained.
Among the Islanders' squad were the current and former Attorneys General of the territory and its Chief Medical Officer.
In the first match, Falkland Islands won the toss and sent Falkland (Newbury) in to bat. The English Falklanders amassed 220 from their allotted 40 overs before bowling out the Islanders for 103.
Any reduction in overs always has the potential to even things out and perhaps this was the case in the second match. Originally it was to be a 40-over contest, but torrential rain on the first day saw it reduced to a 10-overs 6-a-side affair, which was won by the Islanders by three wickets with two balls to spare. The win ensured the Falkland Islands returned home with the Drysdale Cup, donated by Falkland (Fife) resident, Karen Drysdale, whose great-great grandfather and grandfather were both captains of Falkland (Fife) CC. The tournament wrapped up with a win for Scotland as Falkland (Fife) beat Falkland (Berkshire).
It's been an unusually busy year for the Falkland Islands who played in their first ICC tournament in June when they took part in the Americas Division Four event in Mexico.
Meanwhile, back home in the South Atlantic, there are plans to install the Islands' second cricket pitch in Stanley (in addition to the existing one at Mount Pleasant). This will allow a weekday Twenty20 league and under-15 and under-17 competitions to start in the 2010-11 season.
Linked with the appointment of a development officer shortly, the Falkland Islands Cricket Association aims to have 100% of school-age children play cricket in the school sports curriculum for a minimum of 6 weeks a year. "We think we might be the first country in the world to achieve 100% participation at school age," Diggle said.
Friday, August 13, 2010
The batting talent of tailenders
The two most recent Test matches, in Sri Lanka and England, both produced some remarkable lower-order batting displays. At the P Sara Oval, Abhimanyu Mithun and Amit Mishra offered plenty of resistance in India's first innings, but that effort was dwarfed by Sri Lanka's incredible late-order fightback in which Ajantha Mendis played protagonist. The last three wickets in Sri Lanka's second innings put together 180 runs - which is the second-highest for them in all Tests - to lift them from a miserable 87 for 7. Meanwhile, the resistance from Pakistan's tail at Edgbaston further embarrassed the already beleaguered top-order batsmen, with Zulqarnain Haider and Saeed Ajmal at least ensuring that Pakistan's bowlers had some sort of a target to defend in the fourth innings.
These two Tests continue a recent trend where the last four batsmen have added a fair bit to their team's total. In 25 Tests this year, the last four batsmen (Nos. 8-11) average 18.46, with two centuries and 13 fifties; in 2009 they averaged 17.96, and both these numbers figure in the top five annual averages over the last 40 years. (Click here for the full list.)
As that link also shows, though, the increase in averages hasn't been as consistent, or as significant, as one might have thought: the average in 2008 was only 15.39, while in 2007 it was 14.78. Overall in the 2000s, the average was 15.51, which was only marginally better than the previous decade, and worse than the averages in the 1980s and the 1960s. That doesn't conform to the general perception that tail-end batting has improved substantially in recent years, though the way the 2010s have started is pretty encouraging.
| Decade | Tests | Runs | Average | 100s/ 50s |
| 1950s | 164 | 19,373 | 14.05 | 8/ 43 |
| 1960s | 186 | 24,570 | 15.78 | 8/ 80 |
| 1970s | 198 | 24,612 | 14.79 | 2/ 70 |
| 1980s | 266 | 33,901 | 16.05 | 10/ 104 |
| 1990s | 347 | 42,500 | 14.34 | 10/ 122 |
| 2000s | 464 | 61,833 | 15.51 | 27/ 177 |
| 2010s | 25 | 3878 | 18.46 | 2/ 13 |
The partnership stats for the last three wickets mirror the averages table above. Again, the 1960s and the 1980s outdid the 2000s, but 2010 has so far produced some important lower-order performances.
| Decade | Partnerships | P'ship runs | Average stand | 100/ 50 stands |
| 1950s | 1348 | 18,985 | 14.49 | 4/ 62 |
| 1960s | 1537 | 26,978 | 18.25 | 13/ 116 |
| 1970s | 1624 | 27,464 | 17.59 | 13/ 112 |
| 1980s | 2053 | 36,753 | 18.71 | 21/ 151 |
| 1990s | 2832 | 47,258 | 17.25 | 26/ 187 |
| 2000s | 3821 | 66,962 | 18.09 | 45/ 250 |
| 2010s | 206 | 4029 | 20.34 | 5/ 16 |
A look at the batsmen with the highest averages at these positions since the 1950s shows that the top 10 is dominated by batsmen who played predominantly in the 1980s and the 2000s. Among those who've played at least 50 innings at these slots, a couple of South Africans head the list. Mark Boucher's preferred slot was No. 7, but he also played at eight and nine 52 times, averaging almost 35. Incidentally, in 112 innings at No. 7 he only averages 26.82. Shaun Pollock, on the other hand, played 99 out of 156 innings at Nos. 8 or 9. Both his Test centuries came when he batted at nine, making him one of 16 batsmen to score a hundred from that position, and the only one to get two.
Like Boucher, Kapil Dev played most often at No. 7 (98 out of 194 innings at that slot), but he had a more-than-handy record when he came in lower down the order, averaging nearly 33. Daniel Vettori, though, has clearly preferred batting at No. 8 or lower - in 152 Test innings, only 24 times has he batted higher. He is one of only two batsmen - Shane Warne is the other - to score more than 3000 runs at positions 8 to 11. Three of his five Test hundreds have come at No. 8, where he averages 42.28; at No. 9, though, his average slips to 23.88 in 51 innings, which is why his overall average at these positions is only 31.59. Boucher, Pollock, Kapil and Vettori are also the only batsmen with a 30-plus average.
| Batsman | Innings | Runs | Average | 100s/ 50s |
| Mark Boucher | 52 | 1424 | 34.73 | 2/ 9 |
| Shaun Pollock | 99 | 2330 | 32.81 | 2/ 7 |
| Kapil Dev | 65 | 1967 | 32.78 | 2/ 13 |
| Daniel Vettori | 128 | 3317 | 31.59 | 4/ 18 |
| Ian Smith | 75 | 1667 | 27.78 | 2/ 6 |
| Syed Kirmani | 76 | 1598 | 27.55 | 1/ 6 |
| Kiran More | 57 | 1180 | 26.81 | 0/ 7 |
| Nicky Boje | 52 | 1125 | 26.78 | 0/ 3 |
| Chaminda Vaas | 144 | 2785 | 25.55 | 1/ 12 |
| Richard Hadlee | 81 | 1641 | 24.49 | 1/ 8 |
Of the pairs who've batted together at least 10 times for the last three wickets in an innings, Wasim Akram and Saqlain Mushtaq of Pakistan have the highest average - 34.33 from 12 innings. That average is slightly misleading, though, for 313 of their 412 partnership runs were scored in a single innings, against Zimbabwe in Sheikhpura, when Akram scored that monumental unbeaten 257. In 11 other innings, their highest partnership was 26. Jason Gillespie's limpet-like abilities have been well documented, so it's hardly surprising to see his name twice in the top 10, with Steve Waugh and Adam Gilchrist. With Waugh, Gillespie has two 50-plus partnerships in 10 innings, while with Gilchrist he had three in 14, including a 73-run stand in Fatullah when Gillespie scored a famous double-century. Gillespie is one of four Australians who feature twice in the top 10 - Gilchrist, Warne and Brett Lee are the others - which illustrates another aspect of their cricket that was outstanding during the period they dominated world cricket.
| Pair | Partnerships | Runs | Average | 100/ 50 stands |
| Saqlain Mushtaq - Wasim Akram | 12 | 412 | 34.33 | 1/ 0 |
| Jason Gillespie - Steve Waugh | 10 | 308 | 34.22 | 1/ 1 |
| Brett Lee - Shane Warne | 10 | 340 | 34.00 | 0/ 3 |
| James Franklin - Daniel Vettori | 11 | 338 | 30.72 | 0/ 2 |
| Ian Healy - Shane Warne | 16 | 491 | 30.68 | 0/ 3 |
| Abdul Qadir - Imran Khan | 10 | 304 | 30.40 | 1/ 0 |
| Adam Gilchrist - Jason Gillespie | 14 | 382 | 29.38 | 0/ 3 |
| Kumar Dharmasena - Chaminda Vaas | 12 | 350 | 29.16 | 0/ 3 |
| Adam Gilchrist - Brett Lee | 17 | 458 | 28.62 | 1/ 2 |
| Imran Khan - Sarfraz Nawaz | 11 | 279 | 27.90 | 0/ 2 |
Sri Lanka's last four did give the Indians a lot of grief in Colombo, but it's nowhere close to what Akram and Co did to Zimbabwe's bowlers in that Sheikhupura Test. Powered by Akram's unbeaten 257, Pakistan's last four batsmen added 336, which remains a record for the most runs scored by the last four batsmen in a single innings (and this despite the Nos. 10 and 11, Waqar Younis and Shahid Nazir, getting ducks). The only other instance of the last four scoring more than 300 was way back in 1908 at the Adelaide Oval, when Australia's tail amassed 307, with hundreds for Roger Hartigan and Clem Hill.
'Our early 80s line-up was better than today's'
Opening in a Test with my brother was fun. I couldn't open with my eldest brother [Sunil], although our careers overlapped. When he toured I didn't, and when I toured he didn't. We always felt that they wouldn't take two brothers at that time. Mithra was actually in Hong Kong, and he had lost out on a year or two. He was an accountant there. He came back and he got into the side briefly. Then I opened with him in a Test series in New Zealand.Winning the World Cup made cricket a lot more popular in Sri Lanka, but by 1996 we had a damn good team. Had we not won, it wouldn't have been the end of the world.
Our fitness levels were a joke. We just had fun. When I look back, we did all the wrong things. We used to burn out so much before we went on tour that the tour seemed like a break.
Roy Dias was one of the most stylish batsmen. My brother Sunil was an absolutely stylish player. Michael Tissera was a beautiful batsman to watch. I thoroughly enjoyed Anura Tennekoon. Never played in Tests. He scored a hundred against every country that toured here. He would have been a run machine.
We were very unfortunate, in that most of our tours were one-off Tests - one-off or two. We could never capitalise on form, or when we got going we could hardly convert it into a big series.
The England tour of 1984 was also one such. We toured for a month or so playing counties, and then one Test. If you failed in that Test, whatever the result of the rest of the tour, you felt you had a bad tour. I remember the match before the Test, against Sussex, I got 70-odd. John Snow wrote, "Watch out for Sid." [Wettimuny batted for close to 11 hours, scoring 190 at Lord's]
Cricket in our day wasn't exactly an elitist sport, but 90% of cricketers in Sri Lanka came from Colombo schools.
My father was extremely keen that we learn to bat properly, technically. He appreciated the art more than anything else. He actually built the first indoor school in this country for us to learn cricket, so that we could go and learn from the man I thought was the best coach, Bertie Wijesinghe.
I have always looked for and appreciated the little friendships you build along the line with players from other countries.
In the early eighties the batting line-up we had - believe it or not - was better than what we have today. But we played cricket for fun. If I look at pure batting skills - you ask Arjuna Ranatunga, he will tell you the same thing - our line-up was much better. The skills were better. They viewed us with respect.
I always liked playing on English wickets. If you played straight, you could score there.
A guy came and made us run 19 rounds around a ground, saying "This is how you keep fit." By the time the tour started we were exhausted. We never did weight training. We didn't have those facilities. It was pure skill that kept us going.
"I don't know if we were too nice. We were amateurs; even when we retired we were semi-professional. The hard-nosed cricket style came with the commercialisation of the game"
If you take the period we were in, it was very formative in Test cricket exposure. Lord's was a big step. We were beginning to tell ourselves that we could perform on the big stage. That we could battle with the big boys and still do well. We were playing at Lord's, the home of cricket. Everybody was keen to do well. It contributed in that sense; it told the coming teams that it could be done.
Arjuna was very confident from day one. He had that aggressive approach even then.
We have to give a lot of credit to Dav Whatmore for 1996. Until then we did our own thing basically. Even in 1994, that was how we played. It was not a unit playing cricket, it was cricketers doing their own thing and coming together on tour.
We have got so much of natural talent, which needs - I must qualify - to be converted into skill and performance. The natural talent, good coordination is there, you know. Our guys are well coordinated; you go to the villages and see.
I don't know whether we were too nice. Let's face it, we were amateurs; even when we retired we were semi-professional. So I think the hard-nosed cricket style came with the commercialisation of the game.
Arjuna was definitely one of the guys who went out of the way to show the opposition, "Look we can beat you." Maybe he did convey that to them better than some of the guys earlier.
Around age 30-31, I seriously thought I had come to a crossroads. For a long time we didn't get enough Test tours. Then there was trouble in the country. It was the middle of the southern uprising and we were going to have only two Tests in the next two years. That's when I retired. Unlike now, where when you retire you have made enough money to sit back and relax, we had to seriously think, "Hey what the hell do I do now?"
I believe even today you can play the game as cleanly as ever and still perform at the highest level.
When we played in India, we did well there. The three one-dayers we lost because of one man and one man only, Kris Srikkanth. In the Test, we did well too. Roy batted beautifully, Duleep got twin hundreds. I don't think our opponents thought we were bad, but we lacked five-day exposure and fitness.
When I saw the 1996 team, I thought, "What the hell were we doing?" We used to get 30 runs and get cramps.
The greatest thing Dav did was to bring organisation. Not technical skills, he brought organised thinking. He brought Alex Kountouris with him. What that did was, batsmen who would score 70 and throw their wickets away due to lack of fitness and application would go on to convert it to 140. The guy who took two wickets went on to get six because he had strength, stamina and focus. It upped our cricket by 40% just through dedicated and disciplined thinking, and the incredible increase in fitness.
In Sialkot I got 45 on a crazy green top against Imran and Wasim. Battled and battled and got 45, and in the second innings I was given lbw in the first over. That was disappointing.
Arjuna Ranatunga hits out, Sri Lanka v England, Only Test, P Sara Oval, 1st day, February 17, 1982
"Those days we were a lot more relaxed about how we played the game than today" © Getty Images
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There was bad umpiring, no doubt, when Pakistan toured in 1986. Even in Pakistan we had some terrible umpiring. I don't know if it was tit-for-tat. In Kandy I disappointed some of our management by walking, but all my life I have played my game that way. I felt it beneath my dignity to be out and then not walk. How can you look those guys in the eye after that?
Sadly I learned to stay fit only after I retired. I work hard now to stay fit, but never during our playing days.
At Lord's, when I went out to play, I still remember Mohsin Khan called me on the dressing-room phone at every break. He was playing in the leagues then. First before the match, saying, "Look, I got a double-hundred there, you can also do it". Lunch, tea, close of play, till I got out, he called me every break. Those are the sort of things you remember. Kapil and I are very good friends. Sunny. The Crowe brothers in New Zealand.
It has been a very slow turn from the mid-eighties, nineties, but today 80% of our national cricketers are from outstation. That's where we need to focus. We aren't developing enough bases. The same bases we have in Colombo, we should be having in Galle, in Kandy. We should be now having them in Jaffna.
Roy is a very mild guy - in fact, too mild. He was very sensitive, to the point of nearly being insecure. But he was different when he batted. All his confidence showed when he batted. People forget he was not only a brilliant batsman but a brilliant fielder too, possibly at one time the best cover fielder in this country.
My father used to always say, "It's a game that builds character." If you can play the game in a certain way, you will take it outside the game too. I see a lot of truth in that.
Who'll play at No.7 for India?
It's six months to go to the World Cup - a long time if you are preparing for the staging of the Commonwealth Games, not quite if you are looking at the best possible combination to put together for the biggest cricket event in the world. Coaches and selectors must be hoping to have at least 10 or 11 names finalised by now, and really should have a fair idea of who the other four or five will be. A wish list would be in every coach's back pocket.
India's wish list is pretty obvious really, and a first reading will expose the biggest problem with it. Ideally this is what I suspect Kirsten and Dhoni and Srikkanth would be looking at the evening before the first game: SachinTendulkar, Virender Sehwag, Gautam Gambhir, Yuvraj Singh, Mahendra Singh Dhoni, Suresh Raina, Irfan Pathan, Harbhajan Singh, Praveen Kumar or Ashish Nehra, Zaheer Khan, Pragyan Ojha. Eleven of those 12 names look settled, but for India to be strong at the World Cup, No. 7 needs to be identified, and at the moment Irfan Pathan has gone underground.
So if Pathan Jr is not on the radar, who bats after the batsmen and above the bowlers and gives you a few, if not 10, overs? India have tried Pathan Sr - and I suspect he is still an option - and currently are investing heavily in Ravindra Jadeja, who has so far given little indication of becoming the rock star Shane Warne thought he could be. "Could be" is the operative phrase here. Early in his career Jadeja seems to have stagnated, and I suspect people will start looking for returns on investment very shortly.
I also suspect India's think tank will have started thinking seriously about a Plan B. They will need one because there is no No. 7 who answers to the job description anywhere in sight in India. You'd think the IPL would have thrown up a couple of names, but really, apart from R Ashwin, who seems better with the new ball than with the old at the moment, the canvas is blank.
| A bits-and-pieces player policy tends to be fraught with danger because you run the risk of getting neither a bowler nor a batsman, and so India need to play to their strength, which on Indian pitches is batting | |||
And so I suspect India might have to go the way they did during that very successful run from 2002 to 2004, when the selfless Rahul Dravid took the gloves and allowed India to play a seventh batsman. Straightaway you can see Rohit Sharma playing the role that Mohammad Kaif did then, with the license to bat freely in case the team is in a good situation, and instructed to douse the fires if there is a batting collapse.
But what looks good in the mind and on paper need not necessarily be the same way on the field. So who bowls the other 10 overs? Or more if one of the bowlers has had a bad day? It's time, then, to ask the batsmen to start rolling their arms over. In home conditions that isn't such a daunting task. Sehwag is a very competent offspinner (remember Aravinda De Silva bowling 10 overs quite often in 1996?) and Yuvraj Singh is much underrated. But I think it is time to look even further afield and start throwing the ball to Suresh Raina, who seems to possess a pretty cool head when bowling in the 20-overs game. Or, for that matter, to Rohit Sharma, who can be good for a few overs.
A bits-and-pieces player policy tends to be fraught with danger because you run the risk of getting neither a bowler nor a batsman, and so India need to play to their strength, which on Indian pitches is batting. Four players to generate 10 overs between them shouldn't be a huge issue.
I am not sure that is the way the think tank is thinking at the moment, but if No. 7 remains elusive even after the Sri Lanka tri-series, it might be the right time to start asking the batsmen if they fancy six-over spells in limited-overs cricket. My gut feel is that they will jump at the opportunity.
India have eight one-day games in home conditions before the World Cup. They must know what they want at the World Cup before those games begin.
Sri Lanka Triangular Series / Scorecard
Sri Lanka Triangular Series - 2nd match
Sri Lanka v New Zealand
Sri Lanka won by 3 wickets (with 55 balls remaining)
- ODI no. 3031 | 2010 season
- Played at Rangiri Dambulla International Stadium
- 13 August 2010 - day/night (50-over match)
| New Zealand innings (50 overs maximum) | R | M | B | 4s | 6s | SR | ||
 | BJ Watling | c †Sangakkara b Mathews | 55 | 104 | 68 | 8 | 0 | 80.88 |
| MJ Guptill | c Kapugedera b Malinga | 0 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0.00 |
| LRPL Taylor* | lbw b Mathews | 16 | 46 | 34 | 2 | 0 | 47.05 |
| KS Williamson | c Samaraweera b Mathews | 0 | 3 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 0.00 |
| SB Styris | c Jayawardene b Herath | 24 | 49 | 33 | 1 | 0 | 72.72 |
| GJ Hopkins† | c Kapugedera b Malinga | 11 | 34 | 22 | 0 | 0 | 50.00 |
| NL McCullum | c Herath b Mendis | 36 | 91 | 64 | 0 | 1 | 56.25 |
| DR Tuffey | b Malinga | 0 | 2 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0.00 |
| KD Mills | c Mathews b Herath | 11 | 28 | 25 | 1 | 0 | 44.00 |
| TG Southee | c Dilshan b Kulasekara | 13 | 48 | 30 | 0 | 0 | 43.33 |
| AJ McKay | not out | 4 | 17 | 12 | 0 | 0 | 33.33 | |
| Extras | (b 5, lb 4, w 10, nb 3) | 22 | ||||||
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| Total | (all out; 48.1 overs; 212 mins) | 192 | (3.98 runs per over) | |||||
| Fall of wickets1-2 (Guptill, 0.2 ov), 2-47 (Taylor, 10.1 ov), 3-47 (Williamson, 10.3 ov), 4-99 (Styris, 22.3 ov), 5-101 (Watling, 23.1 ov), 6-123 (Hopkins, 29.5 ov), 7-123 (Tuffey, 29.6 ov), 8-143 (Mills, 36.6 ov), 9-178 (McCullum, 44.4 ov), 10-192 (Southee, 48.1 ov) |
| Bowling | O | M | R | W | Econ | |||
| SL Malinga | 10 | 1 | 35 | 3 | 3.50 | (3nb, 4w) | |
| KMDN Kulasekara | 8.1 | 1 | 35 | 1 | 4.28 | (1w) | |
| AD Mathews | 10 | 1 | 36 | 3 | 3.60 | (1w) | |
| BAW Mendis | 10 | 0 | 42 | 1 | 4.20 | (1w) | |
| HMRKB Herath | 10 | 0 | 35 | 2 | 3.50 |
| Sri Lanka innings (target: 193 runs from 50 overs) | R | M | B | 4s | 6s | SR | ||
| WU Tharanga | c Watling b Mills | 70 | 162 | 109 | 9 | 0 | 64.22 |
| TM Dilshan | c & b Mills | 5 | 11 | 9 | 1 | 0 | 55.55 |
| KC Sangakkara*† | c Guptill b Styris | 48 | 82 | 62 | 5 | 0 | 77.41 |
| DPMD Jayawardene | c Taylor b McCullum | 5 | 23 | 11 | 0 | 0 | 45.45 |
| TT Samaraweera | not out | 36 | 76 | 38 | 4 | 0 | 94.73 | |
| AD Mathews | c Taylor b Mills | 0 | 6 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0.00 |
| KMDN Kulasekara | c †Hopkins b Southee | 7 | 7 | 3 | 0 | 1 | 233.33 |
| HMRKB Herath | c Taylor b Mills | 2 | 5 | 3 | 0 | 0 | 66.66 |
| CK Kapugedera | not out | 9 | 12 | 9 | 1 | 0 | 100.00 | |
| Extras | (b 4, lb 1, w 8) | 13 | ||||||
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| Total | (7 wickets; 40.5 overs; 192 mins) | 195 | (4.77 runs per over) | |||||
| Did not bat BAW Mendis, SL Malinga |
| Fall of wickets1-11 (Dilshan, 2.1 ov), 2-96 (Sangakkara, 19.6 ov), 3-119 (Jayawardene, 26.5 ov), 4-162 (Tharanga, 36.1 ov), 5-164 (Mathews, 36.4 ov), 6-177 (Kulasekara, 37.5 ov), 7-180 (Herath, 38.3 ov) |
| Bowling | O | M | R | W | Econ | |||
| KD Mills | 9.5 | 1 | 41 | 4 | 4.16 | (2w) | |
| DR Tuffey | 5 | 0 | 31 | 0 | 6.20 | (1w) | ||
| TG Southee | 6 | 0 | 41 | 1 | 6.83 | (3w) | |
| AJ McKay | 4 | 0 | 26 | 0 | 6.50 | |||
| NL McCullum | 7 | 0 | 23 | 1 | 3.28 | ||
| KS Williamson | 1 | 0 | 6 | 0 | 6.00 | (2w) | ||
| SB Styris | 8 | 0 | 22 | 1 | 2.75 |
| Match details |
| Toss New Zealand, who chose to bat Points Sri Lanka 4, New Zealand 0 |
| ODI debut BJ Watling (New Zealand) Player of the match WU Tharanga (Sri Lanka) |
| Umpires HDPK Dharmasena and SJA Taufel (Australia) TV umpire TH Wijewardene Match referee AG Hurst (Australia) Reserve umpire RMPJ Rambukwella |
| Match notes |
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