Sri Lanka was scheduled to play a 5 match One day International series in New Zealand in 2015-16. 4th one day International match was washed out due to rain. 1St One Day International match was to be played on Hagley Oval, Christchurch, New Zealand on 26th Dec, 2015.
Sri Lanka won the toss and opts to bat first and this means New Zealand will bowl first.
This is how New Zealand team and 11 was looking like in this match: Brendon McCullum (c), Ross Taylor, Tim Southee, Luke Ronchi (wk), Martin Guptill, Kane Williamson, Doug Bracewell, Mitchell McClenaghan, Adam Milne, George Worker, Tom Latham, Ish Sodhi, Matt Henry, Mitchell Santner, Henry Nicholls
And Sri Lankan team and 11 was looking like this in this match: Tillakaratne Dilshan, Chamara Kapugedera, Nuwan Kulasekara, Ajantha Mendis, Angelo Mathews (c), Suranga Lakmal, Thisara Perera, Lahiru Thirimanne, Dinesh Chandimal (wk), Sachithra Senanayake, Nuwan Pradeep, Milinda Siriwardana, Danushka Gunathilaka, Kithuruwan Vithanage, Dushmantha Chameera, Jeffrey Vandersay
Sri Lanka started poorly and was at loss of 5 wickets at only team score of 27 runs in 10 over’s in the form of Danuskha G, T Dilshan, Lahiru T, Angelo M and D Chandimal. Sri Lanka kept losing wickets at regular intervals and was bowled out for only 188 runs in 47 over’s and was top scored by Milind S who made 66 runs in 82 balls with 7 4’s and 1 six at the strike rate of 80 runs in 100 balls.
New Zealand was needed to score 189 runs in won this 1st One day International match.
New Zealand batted superbly well and was able to chase this target in only 21 over’s at the loss of 3 wickets and top scored by M guptill who made 79 runs in 56 balls with 9 4’s and 4 sixes at the strike rate of 141 runs in 100 balls and Skipper B Mccullum made 55 runs in 25 balls with 11 4’s and 1 six.
New Zealand won the game by 7 wickets and takes lead of 1-0 in 5 match ODI series.
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we feel sad when match gets interrupt from rain.