Hicheal Michael
U19 Captain
I'm sure i read Sri Lanka did not pick a spinner. My bad, must have got confused with India's XI.
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*Official* Sri Lanka Tour of New Zealand 2018/19
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nzfan
International Vice-Captain
Cracking weather here in Wellington and the season underway. Sri Lanka has shown some fight with the bat after the first 3 wickets. I was thinking they were going to fold up for under 150. We need some fight from Sri Lanka here. Don't enjoy watching 3 day test matches after having watched the thrilling series against Pakistan.
OverratedSanity
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What the **** was that 
Maximas
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But realistically NZ can put on 500 and bat SL out of the game, which very much justifies the strategy, perhaps SL did well to get out of jail and will be pleased with that but I think NZ are positioned better in the match
Flem274*
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nz have to put on 500 tho. it's not longer optional like it may have been at 9/3. and sri lanka get the pitch for the traditional 3rd innings domination. you're still well in this.
Maximas
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If the pitch continues to improve it will take a very sizeable lead to bat SL out of the game now, shame that last wicket had to go, Dickwella will be eyeing off a maiden century tomorrow morning but it will be tough 9 down
Grasshopper
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Honours pretty even after Day One.
straw man
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A much better day for SL than it looked at the start of the day - expected resistance from Karunaratne and Matthews but Dickwella was the surprise that made the difference. While NZ will hope to score 450, they still have to go and do it and this score gives SL a chance if they take early wickets.
Should be lovely batting conditions tomorrow, hope Raval can get through the early period and bat for a long time.
Should be lovely batting conditions tomorrow, hope Raval can get through the early period and bat for a long time.
randycricfreak
State Vice-Captain
Drop Gunathileke that guy is the real cancer.
Mendis is actually decent. Scored 80 odd in the last dig Vs England.Plus runs in WI.
Danushka Gunathileke is a sore for the eye. Should not be even in the HK team for Intercontinental cricket. I still don't how he ends up getting selected to the test squad. His FC stats are really mediocre.
Migara
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Perera is the main spinner. Dhanajaya de Silva is pretty decent spinner. Dhanushka Gunathilaka is part time.
Migara
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Gunathilaka is one of the few openers in SL who play pace well. In SL when spinners open bowling, FC stats on openers don't mean much.
YorksLanka
International Debutant
Good fightback from us to get to a reasonable total given the shambles of a start we had..anyone seen Kusal M's brain lying about as he seems to have lost it..
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SL did better than I expected. Decent recovery from 3/**** all. Great to see Karunaratne in the runs. Got lucky a couple of times but still a solid knock. Feel bad for Kusal. Matthews obviously did great too. Short theory worked yet again for NZ but it was pretty awesome to see Dickwella counter it. What was the pitch like? How'd the spinners go?