New Zealand in Sri Lanka Test Series - 2ndTest-1st day

Sri Lanka 262/3 (90.0 ov)

New Zealand

Sri Lanka won the toss and elected to bat

Stumps - Day 1

• New Zealand in Sri Lanka Test Series - 2nd Test
• Test no. 1932 | 2009 season
• Played at Sinhalese Sports Club Ground, Colombo
• 26,27,28,29,30 August 2009 (5-day match)

	Sri Lanka 1st innings		R	M	B	4s	6s	SR
	NT Paranavitana	c Taylor b Vettori	19	53	38	2	0	50.00
	10.2 Vettori, the captain cum selector, has struck with his second ball. It landed around the off stump and sort of held its line, Paranavitana stabbed it gently to first slip. It turned in a touch but not much and Paranavitana pushed inside the line. Gone! Sanga strides out. 34/1
	TM Dilshan	c & b O'Brien	29	101	58	1	0	50.00
	23.2 Would you believe it folks? Dilshan, dropped by the bowler, sends another one his way! It was short in length and it sat up on Dilshan who tried to turn it to the on side but the ball held up, stopped a touch, on him on this slow track and he got a leading edge back to O'Brien who ever so slowly lunged forward to take the simple catch. Got to read the blogger later tonight. 75/2
	KC Sangakkara*	c Oram b Vettori	50	115	96	9	0	52.08
	40.4 No 300 for Dan! Congrats. Sangakkara loses out on the patience game. He had just hit a boundary but couldn't resist another big hit. It was flighted delivery, tempting him to go for another big hit from outside off, and Sanga took up the challenge. Down he went on his knee to play the big slog sweep but hit it straight to deep midwicket. He is the first left-arm spinner to take 300. 115/3
	DPMD Jayawardene	not out	79		210	7	0	37.61
	TT Samaraweera	not out	78		139	10	0	56.11
	Extras	(b 2, lb 4, nb 1)	7
	Total	(3 wickets; 90 overs)	262	(2.91 runs per over)

To bat HAPW Jayawardene†, CK Kapugedera, T Thushara, HMRKB Herath, KTGD Prasad, M Muralitharan

Fall of wickets1-34 (Paranavitana, 10.2 ov), 2-75 (Dilshan, 23.2 ov), 3-115 (Sangakkara, 40.4 ov)

	Bowling	O	M	R	W	Econ
	CS Martin	14	2	45	0	3.21
	IE O'Brien	16	3	52	1	3.25
	23.2 to Dilshan, Would you believe it folks? Dilshan, dropped by the bowler, sends another one his way! It was short in length and it sat up on Dilshan who tried to turn it to the on side but the ball held up, stopped a touch, on him on this slow track and he got a leading edge back to O'Brien who ever so slowly lunged forward to take the simple catch. Got to read the blogger later tonight. 75/2
	DL Vettori	30	11	65	2	2.16	(1nb)
	10.2 to Paranavitana, Vettori, the captain cum selector, has struck with his second ball. It landed around the off stump and sort of held its line, Paranavitana stabbed it gently to first slip. It turned in a touch but not much and Paranavitana pushed inside the line. Gone! Sanga strides out. 34/1 40.4 to Sangakkara, No 300 for Dan! Congrats. Sangakkara loses out on the patience game. He had just hit a boundary but couldn't resist another big hit. It was flighted delivery, tempting him to go for another big hit from outside off, and Sanga took up the challenge. Down he went on his knee to play the big slog sweep but hit it straight to deep midwicket. He is the first left-arm spinner to take 300. 115/3
	JDP Oram	18	6	45	0	2.50
	JS Patel	9	1	32	0	3.55
	JD Ryder	3	1	17	0	5.66

	New Zealand team

TG McIntosh, MJ Guptill, DR Flynn, LRPL Taylor, JD Ryder, BB McCullum†, JDP Oram, DL Vettori*, JS Patel, IE O'Brien, CS Martin

Match details

Toss Sri Lanka, who chose to bat

Player of the match tba

Umpires DJ Harper (Australia) and NJ Llong (England) TV umpire HDPK Dharmasena Match referee AJ Pycroft (Zimbabwe) Reserve umpire PG Liyanage

Close of play day 1 - Sri Lanka 1st innings 262/3 (DPMD Jayawardene 79*, TT Samaraweera 78*, 90 ov)