New Zealand in Sri Lanka Test Series - 1st Test-4rd day full score result

New Zealand in Sri Lanka Test Series - 1st Test

Sri Lanka v New Zealand

Sri Lanka won by 202 runs

• Test no. 1930 | 2009 season
• Played at Galle International Stadium
• 18,19,20,21,22 August 2009 (5-day match)

	Sri Lanka 1st innings		R	M	B	4s	6s	SR
	NT Paranavitana	c †McCullum b Martin	0	2	3	0	0	0.00
	0.3 and there it is! Much better delivery that, pitched up to lure Paranavitana forward and then just gently swings away from the left-hander who pushes at it and gets a nick to McCullum and goes for a duck 0/1
	TM Dilshan	b O'Brien	92	108	72	12	1	127.77
	27.1 and he's chopped it onto his stumps! Not a good ball and not a good shot, its short and a bit wide outside off stump but Dilshan flashes a leaden-footed cut and succeeds only in dragging the ball onto the base of off stump, what agony for him after a splendid innings 134/3
	KC Sangakkara*	c Flynn b Martin	8	12	9	2	0	88.88
	2.6 good grief, Sangakkara's chipped a gift on the pads straight into midwicket's lap! Not a good ball at all, a half-volley on the legs but Sangakkara clips it very hard and picks out Flynn, who has little time to react and does well to gobble that up in his midriff 16/2
	DPMD Jayawardene	c Taylor b O'Brien	114	297	227	15	0	50.22
	79.6 and this time he's gone! Another short ball from O'Brien forces Jayawardene into a loose shot, he goes back cut but plays it feebly and the extra bounce proves fatal as he edges it flush to Taylor at first slip 300/4
	TT Samaraweera	c Patel b Vettori	159	346	277	24	1	57.40
	115.4 dances down the track to Vettori, making room to go inside out over extra cover, but he plays it straighter and picks out Patel running in and taking the catch low 444/7
	AD Mathews	c †McCullum b Vettori	39	89	60	4	1	65.00
	102.1 edged and gone! Vettori pushes through a short, faster arm ball that forces Mathews onto the back foot and flashing hard, resulting in a faint tickle as he goes hard and McCullum gobbles it up 386/5
	HAPW Jayawardene†	c Flynn b Vettori	7	16	15	1	0	46.66
	106.4 and he's taken another! Quicker ball from Vettori drifts onto the pads and Prasana turns it from way in front of his front leg and straight to Flynn at short leg 408/6
	KMDN Kulasekara	c †McCullum b Martin	18	39	34	2	1	52.94
	116.1 simple dismissal, just hits a good length and straightens it and Kulasekara is neither here nor there, pushing inside the line and the thin outer edge is taken 444/8
	T Thushara	c O'Brien b Vettori	0	12	6	0	0	0.00
	117.4 thats a simple catch for O'Brien at mid-off as Vettori tosses it up invitingly into the rough, gets some turn and bounce, and Thushara miscues an aerial drive, he was looking to go hard but the bite off the track drew a false shot high in the air 452/10
	M Muralitharan	c †McCullum b Martin	8	3	5	0	1	160.00
	116.6 smart catch! The fun ends for Murali, it was brief and not too painful, he flays the bat at a short ball that rises up and McCullum leaps up and does really well to hold onto the thick edge that was traveling high to his right 452/9
	BAW Mendis	not out	0	3	0	0	0	-
	Extras	(b 1, lb 2, w 2, nb 2)	7
	Total	(all out; 117.4 overs; 468 mins)	452	(3.84 runs per over)

Fall of wickets1-0 (Paranavitana, 0.3 ov), 2-16 (Sangakkara, 2.6 ov), 3-134 (Dilshan, 27.1 ov), 4-300 (DPMD Jayawardene, 79.6 ov), 5-386 (Mathews, 102.1 ov), 6-408 (HAPW Jayawardene, 106.4 ov), 7-444 (Samaraweera, 115.4 ov), 8-444 (Kulasekara, 116.1 ov), 9-452 (Muralitharan, 116.6 ov), 10-452 (Thushara, 117.4 ov)

	Bowling	O	M	R	W	Econ
	CS Martin	23	5	77	4	3.34
	0.3 to Paranavitana, and there it is! Much better delivery that, pitched up to lure Paranavitana forward and then just gently swings away from the left-hander who pushes at it and gets a nick to McCullum and goes for a duck 0/1 2.6 to Sangakkara, good grief, Sangakkara's chipped a gift on the pads straight into midwicket's lap! Not a good ball at all, a half-volley on the legs but Sangakkara clips it very hard and picks out Flynn, who has little time to react and does well to gobble that up in his midriff 16/2 116.1 to Kulasekara, simple dismissal, just hits a good length and straightens it and Kulasekara is neither here nor there, pushing inside the line and the thin outer edge is taken 444/8 116.6 to Muralitharan, smart catch! The fun ends for Murali, it was brief and not too painful, he flays the bat at a short ball that rises up and McCullum leaps up and does really well to hold onto the thick edge that was traveling high to his right 452/9
	IE O'Brien	21	1	125	2	5.95	(2nb, 1w)
	27.1 to Dilshan, and he's chopped it onto his stumps! Not a good ball and not a good shot, its short and a bit wide outside off stump but Dilshan flashes a leaden-footed cut and succeeds only in dragging the ball onto the base of off stump, what agony for him after a splendid innings 134/3 79.6 to DPMD Jayawardene, and this time he's gone! Another short ball from O'Brien forces Jayawardene into a loose shot, he goes back cut but plays it feebly and the extra bounce proves fatal as he edges it flush to Taylor at first slip 300/4
	JDP Oram	7	1	25	0	3.57
	DL Vettori	37.4	9	78	4	2.07
	102.1 to Mathews, edged and gone! Vettori pushes through a short, faster arm ball that forces Mathews onto the back foot and flashing hard, resulting in a faint tickle as he goes hard and McCullum gobbles it up 386/5 106.4 to HAPW Jayawardene, and he's taken another! Quicker ball from Vettori drifts onto the pads and Prasana turns it from way in front of his front leg and straight to Flynn at short leg 408/6 115.4 to Samaraweera, dances down the track to Vettori, making room to go inside out over extra cover, but he plays it straighter and picks out Patel running in and taking the catch low 444/7 117.4 to Thushara, thats a simple catch for O'Brien at mid-off as Vettori tosses it up invitingly into the rough, gets some turn and bounce, and Thushara miscues an aerial drive, he was looking to go hard but the bite off the track drew a false shot high in the air 452/10
	JS Patel	24	3	120	0	5.00
	JD Ryder	5	1	24	0	4.80	(1w)

	New Zealand 1st innings		R	M	B	4s	6s	SR
	TG McIntosh	lbw b Muralitharan	69	292	226	6	1	30.53
	74.1 pitches outside the off stump and spins in, McIntosh plays forward and the ball misses the bat and strikes the pad, marginally in line, loud appeal and given by the umpire. 188/5
	MJ Guptill	b Thushara	24	53	35	5	0	68.57
	9.6 well what do you know? After a lovely caress through midwicket Guptill perishes to a loose shot, looking to get up and pull a shorter ball in front of square but succeeding in only dragging it back onto the base of his stumps 45/1
	DR Flynn	b Mendis	14	54	44	1	0	31.81
	26.3 Mendis gets Flynn with one that turns back from outside off stump, he pushes forward but doesn't keep the bat close to pad and leaves a sizable gap which results in an inside edge onto off stump 80/2
	JS Patel	lbw b Muralitharan	26	79	57	2	0	45.61
	44.3 wrong ball to play back to! Its quicker and straighter and the lack of turn does Patel in as he moves back to try and turn the ball away, struck in front of the stumps and Patel goes for 26, one short of a Test best 129/3
	LRPL Taylor	c †HAPW Jayawardene b Thushara	35	90	81	3	1	43.20
	71.2 Thushara strikes, good length delivery angled across Taylor, who plays forward and gets an outside edge through to Jayawardene, a good bowling change. 180/4
	JD Ryder	b Kulasekara	42	112	95	4	0	44.21
	100.6 loose shot and Ryder pays the price! Lack of concentration does for him as he's late into a forward prod to a length ball nipping in, leaves a sizable gap between pad and bat and drags the inside edge onto the base of off stump 259/8
	BB McCullum†	b Thushara	1	14	8	0	0	12.50
	77.2 McCullum is cleaned up as he plays half forward to a delivery that came back in just a touch, inside edges and the middle stump is knocked back. 195/6
	JDP Oram	c sub (BSM Warnapura) b Muralitharan	12	29	26	1	0	46.15
	86.2 uh oh, that doesn't look out! Murali persists with the googly that pitches outside leg stump and hurries onto Oram who tries to turn it but misses the ball completely, the ball brushes his pad and pops up to Warnapura who gobbles it up, indeed replays don't show any bat or glove and Oram's disappointment is understandable, Harper has erred 223/7
	DL Vettori*	b Thushara	42	113	97	3	0	43.29
	115.6 middle stump is flattened! Thushara follows up two short-pitched deliveries with a good yorker on the stumps, Vettori exposes all three sticks to try and dab the ball wide but misses and the faint inside edge does the rest 299/10
	IE O'Brien	c †HAPW Jayawardene b Muralitharan	9	33	29	0	0	31.03
	108.6 wicket No. 100 in Galle for Murali! He strikes with the doosra that goes on, O'Brien is tentative with the footwork and pokes at it and Prasanna does very well to take the thin edge, he's such a smooth operator behind the stumps 290/9
	CS Martin	not out	2	24	9	0	0	22.22
	Extras	(b 6, lb 5, w 1, nb 11)	23
	Total	(all out; 116 overs; 451 mins)	299	(2.57 runs per over)

Fall of wickets1-45 (Guptill, 9.6 ov), 2-80 (Flynn, 26.3 ov), 3-129 (Patel, 44.3 ov), 4-180 (Taylor, 71.2 ov), 5-188 (McIntosh, 74.1 ov), 6-195 (McCullum, 77.2 ov), 7-223 (Oram, 86.2 ov), 8-259 (Ryder, 100.6 ov), 9-290 (O'Brien, 108.6 ov), 10-299 (Vettori, 115.6 ov)

	Bowling	O	M	R	W	Econ
	KMDN Kulasekara	10	2	41	1	4.10	(1nb)
	100.6 to Ryder, loose shot and Ryder pays the price! Lack of concentration does for him as he's late into a forward prod to a length ball nipping in, leaves a sizable gap between pad and bat and drags the inside edge onto the base of off stump 259/8
	T Thushara	23	2	81	4	3.52	(6nb, 1w)
	9.6 to Guptill, well what do you know? After a lovely caress through midwicket Guptill perishes to a loose shot, looking to get up and pull a shorter ball in front of square but succeeding in only dragging it back onto the base of his stumps 45/1 71.2 to Taylor, Thushara strikes, good length delivery angled across Taylor, who plays forward and gets an outside edge through to Jayawardene, a good bowling change. 180/4 77.2 to McCullum, McCullum is cleaned up as he plays half forward to a delivery that came back in just a touch, inside edges and the middle stump is knocked back. 195/6 115.6 to Vettori, middle stump is flattened! Thushara follows up two short-pitched deliveries with a good yorker on the stumps, Vettori exposes all three sticks to try and dab the ball wide but misses and the faint inside edge does the rest 299/10
	BAW Mendis	39	8	85	1	2.17	(4nb)
	26.3 to Flynn, Mendis gets Flynn with one that turns back from outside off stump, he pushes forward but doesn't keep the bat close to pad and leaves a sizable gap which results in an inside edge onto off stump 80/2
	M Muralitharan	42	10	73	4	1.73
	44.3 to Patel, wrong ball to play back to! Its quicker and straighter and the lack of turn does Patel in as he moves back to try and turn the ball away, struck in front of the stumps and Patel goes for 26, one short of a Test best 129/3 74.1 to McIntosh, pitches outside the off stump and spins in, McIntosh plays forward and the ball misses the bat and strikes the pad, marginally in line, loud appeal and given by the umpire. 188/5 86.2 to Oram, uh oh, that doesn't look out! Murali persists with the googly that pitches outside leg stump and hurries onto Oram who tries to turn it but misses the ball completely, the ball brushes his pad and pops up to Warnapura who gobbles it up, indeed replays don't show any bat or glove and Oram's disappointment is understandable, Harper has erred 223/7 108.6 to O'Brien, wicket No. 100 in Galle for Murali! He strikes with the doosra that goes on, O'Brien is tentative with the footwork and pokes at it and Prasanna does very well to take the thin edge, he's such a smooth operator behind the stumps 290/9
	NT Paranavitana	2	0	8	0	4.00

	Sri Lanka 2nd innings		R	M	B	4s	6s	SR
	NT Paranavitana	c Taylor b O'Brien	5	19	16	1	0	31.25
	3.5 edged and taken! Paranavitana's poor match continues against a gem of a ball that pitches just about back of a length from around the stumps, then leaves him as he pushes at it off the back foot and the thick edge is taken by Taylor to his right at first slip 19/1
	TM Dilshan	not out	123	208	131	12	1	93.89
	KC Sangakkara*	run out (Vettori)	46	85	65	7	0	70.76
	23.1 Vettori to Dilshan, tossed up invitingly into the rough outside the pads, Dilshan makes room and looks to on-drive but ends up pushing the ball much straighter to Vettori's left, he gets a hand on the ball which ricochets onto the stumps with Sangakkara not inside his crease and he is run out 120/2
	DPMD Jayawardene	c & b Patel	27	52	41	1	0	65.85
	36.6 gone! Patel gets his first wicket of the match as Jayawardene reaches out in front his pad and turns the ball across the drift and gives the bowler catching practice 174/3
	TT Samaraweera	c Taylor b Vettori	20	17	15	1	2	133.33
	41.3 clears the front leg and swings across the line, having to fetch the ball from against the spin and that does him in, the ball balloons up with the top edge and Taylor follows it from slip and takes the catch near short fine leg, actually more to Young's left side 205/4
	HAPW Jayawardene†	not out	30	31	26	5	0	115.38
	Extras	(b 5, lb 3)	8
	Total	(4 wickets dec; 49 overs; 208 mins)	259	(5.28 runs per over)

Did not bat AD Mathews, T Thushara, KMDN Kulasekara, BAW Mendis, M Muralitharan

Fall of wickets1-19 (Paranavitana, 3.5 ov), 2-120 (Sangakkara, 23.1 ov), 3-174 (DPMD Jayawardene, 36.6 ov), 4-205 (Samaraweera, 41.3 ov)

	Bowling	O	M	R	W	Econ
	CS Martin	5	1	25	0	5.00
	IE O'Brien	8	1	45	1	5.62
	3.5 to Paranavitana, edged and taken! Paranavitana's poor match continues against a gem of a ball that pitches just about back of a length from around the stumps, then leaves him as he pushes at it off the back foot and the thick edge is taken by Taylor to his right at first slip 19/1
	JDP Oram	5	0	31	0	6.20
	DL Vettori	19	3	81	1	4.26
	41.3 to Samaraweera, clears the front leg and swings across the line, having to fetch the ball from against the spin and that does him in, the ball balloons up with the top edge and Taylor follows it from slip and takes the catch near short fine leg, actually more to Young's left side 205/4
	JS Patel	12	0	69	1	5.75
	36.6 to DPMD Jayawardene, gone! Patel gets his first wicket of the match as Jayawardene reaches out in front his pad and turns the ball across the drift and gives the bowler catching practice 174/3

	New Zealand 2nd innings (target: 413 runs)		R	M	B	4s	6s	SR
	MJ Guptill	b Thushara	18	74	60	2	0	30.00
	18.1 oh good ball! The decision to change the angle works a charm as Thushara pitches it just short of a good length and the natural angle brings it back, squares up Guptill and clips the top of off stump, the late movement doing the trick 37/2
	DR Flynn	c DPMD Jayawardene b Kulasekara	0	3	3	0	0	0.00
	0.5 super catch from Jayawardene at second slip! Kulasekara hits a good length and moves the ball away from Flynn who feels for it away from the body slightly and the outside edge is plucked up by Jayawardene with his right hand inches above the grass 1/1
	LRPL Taylor	c †HAPW Jayawardene b DPMD Jayawardene	16	88	57	2	0	28.07
	23.2 well, well, well what do you know? Jayawardene strikes with his second delivery, tossed up down the leg stump, Taylor doesn't get a long way across as he tries to glance the ball and the thinnest of edges is superbly held by the other Jayawardene, Prasanna, after which Nigel Llong raises the finger to cue mass hysteria on the field from Sri Lanka 45/4
	TG McIntosh	c Samaraweera b Thushara	0	14	8	0	0	0.00
	20.2 beauty of a catch at third slip and its given! Thushara bangs it in short of a length and McIntosh feels for it as it angles across sharply, gets a thick outside edge that flies hard and low to Samaraweera at third slip who reacts superbly to cup the ball to his left as it dies on him, he just gets the fingers underneath it between the legs and celebrates, the umpires go upstairs to confirm and after a few minutes confirmation comes in that it was indeed a clean catch 39/3
	JDP Oram	lbw b Mendis	21	66	57	2	0	36.84
	37.3 gone sweeping! Mendis pitches the ball on line with middle and off and drifts the ball in to Oram who dangerously opts to sweep, the ball hits him in front of middle 86/5
	DL Vettori*	c †HAPW Jayawardene b Mendis	67	148	122	7	0	54.91
	61.5 and Sri Lanka celebrate! Mendis tosses up one into the rough outside off stump and gets some turn away from the bat, ala Murali's dismissal of Ryder, and Vettori gets a thin outside edge to Prasanna who does well once more to hold onto the catch 167/7
	JD Ryder	c †HAPW Jayawardene b Muralitharan	24	52	37	4	0	64.86
	50.5 good ball, good take! Murali delivers the suckerpunch to get Ryder, tosses the ball up into the rough outside off stump and gets sharp turn away from the bat, Ryder is lured forward and the outside edge is superbly taken by Prasanna 134/6
	BB McCullum†	run out (Muralitharan)	29	82	56	2	1	51.78
	71.5 from Mendis, and there it is, courtesy Murali's arm once more! Mendis bowls a shorter ball, pushed through quicker, McCullum again stays on the back foot and forces the ball to extra cover, Murali runs in from mid-off, picks and throws in one action and nails down the stumps with a direct hit, catching McCullum just short 210/10
	JS Patel	st †HAPW Jayawardene b Muralitharan	22	25	26	3	0	84.61
	68.5 superb work from bowler and wicketkeeper! Murali rips that gen of a ball across Patel, pushing it in quicker, he is lured forward and his back foot drags out momentarily and thats enough for Prasanna to collect and break the sticks in one smooth motion 204/8
	IE O'Brien	c Paranavitana b Muralitharan	5	8	8	1	0	62.50
	70.6 pushes forward at this one and gets an inside edge back onto the pad, which pops up to Paranavitana at silly point who dives forward and holds on 210/9
	CS Martin	not out	0	3	0	0	0	-
	Extras	(b 4, lb 1, nb 3)	8
	Total	(all out; 71.5 overs; 290 mins)	210	(2.92 runs per over)

Fall of wickets1-1 (Flynn, 0.5 ov), 2-37 (Guptill, 18.1 ov), 3-39 (McIntosh, 20.2 ov), 4-45 (Taylor, 23.2 ov), 5-86 (Oram, 37.3 ov), 6-134 (Ryder, 50.5 ov), 7-167 (Vettori, 61.5 ov), 8-204 (Patel, 68.5 ov), 9-210 (O'Brien, 70.6 ov), 10-210 (McCullum, 71.5 ov)

	Bowling	O	M	R	W	Econ
	KMDN Kulasekara	8	2	20	1	2.50	(1nb)
	0.5 to Flynn, super catch from Jayawardene at second slip! Kulasekara hits a good length and moves the ball away from Flynn who feels for it away from the body slightly and the outside edge is plucked up by Jayawardene with his right hand inches above the grass 1/1
	T Thushara	14	3	37	2	2.64	(2nb)
	18.1 to Guptill, oh good ball! The decision to change the angle works a charm as Thushara pitches it just short of a good length and the natural angle brings it back, squares up Guptill and clips the top of off stump, the late movement doing the trick 37/2 20.2 to McIntosh, beauty of a catch at third slip and its given! Thushara bangs it in short of a length and McIntosh feels for it as it angles across sharply, gets a thick outside edge that flies hard and low to Samaraweera at third slip who reacts superbly to cup the ball to his left as it dies on him, he just gets the fingers underneath it between the legs and celebrates, the umpires go upstairs to confirm and after a few minutes confirmation comes in that it was indeed a clean catch 39/3
	BAW Mendis	18.5	4	50	2	2.65
	37.3 to Oram, gone sweeping! Mendis pitches the ball on line with middle and off and drifts the ball in to Oram who dangerously opts to sweep, the ball hits him in front of middle 86/5 61.5 to Vettori, and Sri Lanka celebrate! Mendis tosses up one into the rough outside off stump and gets some turn away from the bat, ala Murali's dismissal of Ryder, and Vettori gets a thin outside edge to Prasanna who does well once more to hold onto the catch 167/7
	M Muralitharan	27	4	88	3	3.25
	50.5 to Ryder, good ball, good take! Murali delivers the suckerpunch to get Ryder, tosses the ball up into the rough outside off stump and gets sharp turn away from the bat, Ryder is lured forward and the outside edge is superbly taken by Prasanna 134/6 68.5 to Patel, superb work from bowler and wicketkeeper! Murali rips that gen of a ball across Patel, pushing it in quicker, he is lured forward and his back foot drags out momentarily and thats enough for Prasanna to collect and break the sticks in one smooth motion 204/8 70.6 to O'Brien, pushes forward at this one and gets an inside edge back onto the pad, which pops up to Paranavitana at silly point who dives forward and holds on 210/9
	DPMD Jayawardene	4	1	10	1	2.50