The first T20 match between New Zealand and Sri Lanka reached the Super Over on Sunday. A miracle happened in the super over. Sri Lanka won the first match. With this, the Sri Lankan team took a 1-0 lead in the series. Batting first, Sri Lanka scored 196 runs for 5 wickets. Charit Aslanka scored 67 runs and Kusal Pereira scored 53 runs. The start of the Kiwis team, which entered the ring with a target of 197 runs, became very bad.
New Zealand lost 2 wickets for 3 runs. After that Tom Latham, Darrell Mitchell and Mark Chapman took over the innings. Mitchell scored 66 runs. New Zealand scored 184 runs for the loss of 8 wickets in 19.1 overs. Rachin Ravindra took the path of the pavilion at 26 runs.. The Kiwis team took the path of defeat. Then Ish Sodhi and Henry Shipley singles to take the score to 190 runs in 19.5 overs.
Match tie with sixers..
New Zealand need 7 runs off the last ball to win. But this is almost impossible. Sodhi is at the crease. The Kiwis batsmen hit a huge six off the last ball of Dasun Shanaka’s bowling to tie the match. No one expected a tie. But, Sodhi hit a six to give New Zealand another chance. In the Super Over, Jimmy Neesham and Darrell Mitchell came out to bat for New Zealand.
Mendis, Aslanka super innings..
New Zealand added 8 runs and lost 2 wickets in the super over. Neesham and Chapman lost 2 wickets. After that Kushal Mendis and Aslanka from Sri Lanka came to bat to break the target. Aslanka hit a six off the second ball of Adam Milne’s over. The next ball was a no ball but Aslanka also hit a four to give Sri Lanka victory.
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