WC 2011 Match Facts and Scorecard: Sri Lanka vs New Zealand

Sri Lanka defeated New Zealand convincingly to ensure they would not finish at the bottom of their group.

Match Facts

Match 38
Captains: Sangakkara (SL) Taylor
Toss: SL
Result: SL def NZ by 112 runs
MOM: Sangakkara
3wkts or more: 4/25 Murali, 3/63 Southee
6s: 5 (SL 4, NZ 1)
100: 111 Sangakkara
100 plus partnership: 145 3rd wkt Sangakkara and Jayawardene (SL)

Records

SL won 5th WC game against NZ, out of 8 encounters.
Sangakkara became the 4th Sri Lankan to reach 9000 ODI runs.
Sangakkara scored his 1st WC and 11th ODI century.
Jayawardene scored his 5th WC half-century.

Sri Lanka innings (50 overs maximum)

Tharanga run out 3
Dilshan c Oram b Southee 3
Sangakkara b NL McCullum 111 runs 12 4s 2 6s
Jayawardene lbw b Southee 66 runs 6 4s
Mathews not out 41 runs 4 4s
Samaraweera c B McCullum b Styris 5
Silva c & b NL McCullum 3
Kulasekara c Guptill b Southee 1
Malinga c B McCullum b Oram 6 runs 1 six
Muralitharan run out 7 runs 1 six
Mendis not out 0
Extras (lb 4, w 12, nb 3) 19
Total (50 overs) 265/9

Fall of wickets

1-13 (Tharanga, 2.6 ov), 2-19 (Dilshan, 4.3 ov), 3-164 (Jayawardene, 36.1 ov), 4-210 (Sangakkara, 41.4 ov), 5-219 (Samaraweera, 44.1 ov), 6-224 (Silva, 45.4 ov), 7-232 (Kulasekara, 46.6 ov), 8-239 (Malinga, 47.5 ov), 9-260 (Muralitharan, 49.2 ov)

Bowling

Southee 10 ov 63/3
Oram 10 ov 1 maiden 57/1
Bennett 4.1 ov 16/0
Ryder 3.5 ov 18/0
Franklin 3 ov 11/0
Styris 8 ov 44/1
N McCullum 10 ov 48/2
Williamson 1 ov 4/0

New Zealand innings (target: 266 runs from 50 overs)

Guptill lbw b Kulasekara 13 runs 1 four
B McCullum c Jayawardene b Mathews 14 runs 2 4s
Ryder c Sangakkara b Mendis 19 runs 2 4s
Ross Taylor lbw b Muralitharan 33 runs 3 4s 1 six
Williamson st Sangakkara b Muralitharan 5
Styris c & b Muralitharan 6
Franklin c Dilshan b Muralitharan 20 runs 2 4s
N McCullum c Jayawardene b Dilshan 4
Oram not out 20 runs 2 4s
Southee lbw b Mendis 8 runs 1 four
Bennett b Malinga 0
Extras (lb 4, w 6, nb 1) 11
Total (35 overs) 153

Fall of wickets

1-29 (B McCullum, 6.2 ov), 2-33 (Guptill, 7.1 ov), 3-82 (Ryder, 16.5 ov), 4-88 (Williamson, 19.2 ov), 5-93 (Taylor, 21.1 ov), 6-102 (Styris, 23.5 ov), 7-115 (N McCullum, 26.5 ov), 8-129 (Franklin, 31.3 ov), 9-144 (Southee, 33.4 ov), 10-153 (Bennett, 34.6 ov)

Bowling

Malinga 5 ov 38/1
Kulasekara 7 ov 19/1
Mathews 3 ov 19/1
Mendis 6 ov 24/2
Dilshan 6 ov 24/1
Muralitharan 8 ov 25/4