“The way Chad and Tim played was the icing on the cake.” I thought the bowling performance was outstanding. “From eight overs on we clawed things back and the way we were able to keep taking wickets, we were able to stall the run-rate. “It was a pretty clinical performance,” Latham said. He hit the sixth six of his innings out of the ground from the bowling of De Silva to take New Zealand to 140-1, then the seventh on the next ball to end the match.Ĭaptain Tom Latham was 20 not out, having played the support role in an unbeaten 106-run partnership with Seifert. Seifert reached his sixth T20 half-century from 30 balls with two fours and four sixes. When he was out with the total 40, Seifert took over the assault on the Sri Lanka bowlers and New Zealand rushed to 103-1 after 10 overs. South Africa-born opener Chad Bowes got the New Zealand innings off to a fast start with 31 from 15 balls, including seven fours. “I think compared to the last game we were able to take a few quick wickets in the middle and that allowed us to attack a bit more.” “I think the spinners did really well through the middle there to tie them up,” Milne said. New Zealand used the slower ball to good effect and a succession of batters fell to catches in the deep. The pitch at the University Oval was slow but the boundaries were short and inviting and the visiting batters found it hard to resist the temptation of the big shot. The pair put on 62 for the third wicket.īut after Milne removed Perera, de Silva fell to the spinner Rachin Ravindra and Sri Lanka’s innings lost some of its momentum. Sri Lanka made 196-5 in the first match and looked on course to another high score when it reached 50-2 in the powerplay on Wednesday and 83-2 in the first 10 overs, led by Perera and Dhananjaya de Silva, who made 37 from 26 balls.
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