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Sri Lanka vs New Zealand

Venue: Colombo Lions Arena

Round: 5 • Result: Defending team won by 18 runs • Winner: New Zealand

Man of the Match
Blake Saunders
Batting: 63 (28) • SR 225.00 • 4s 7 • 6s 3 | Bowling: 2/33 • 4.0 ov | Team: New Zealand

Innings

Innings 1 — New Zealand
Score: 215/8 • Overs: 20.0
Bowling: Sri Lanka
Batting
Batter R B SR 4s 6s Dismissal
Jett Rourke 46 27 170.37 3 3 c Prakash Iyer b Aditya Rana
Kaito Moriyama 10 3 333.33 1 1 c Rohit Kulkarni b Aravind Pillai
Mason Wilde 20 14 142.86 3 0 lbw b Aravind Pillai
Zane Calder 1 2 50.00 0 0 c Yusuf Siddiqui b Rishabh Menon
Logan Price 12 6 200.00 1 1 lbw b Yusuf Siddiqui
Ollie Vance 40 27 148.15 4 1 run out (Aravind Pillai)
Blake Saunders 63 28 225.00 7 3 not out
Connor Briggs 9 5 180.00 1 0 c Arjun Venkatesh b Arjun Venkatesh
Finlay Grant 7 6 116.67 1 0 run out (Rishabh Menon)
Marcus Vale 7 2 350.00 1 0 not out
Fall of Wickets: 46/1, 56/2, 76/3, 77/4, 89/5, 129/6, 138/7, 145/8
Bowling
Bowler Overs Runs Wkts Econ
Aravind Pillai 4.0 55 2 13.75
Aditya Rana 3.0 24 1 8.00
Rishabh Menon 4.0 29 1 7.25
Yusuf Siddiqui 4.0 41 1 10.25
Arjun Venkatesh 3.0 41 1 13.67
Ishaan Malhotra 2.0 25 0 12.50
Innings 2 — Sri Lanka
Score: 197/8 • Overs: 20.0
Bowling: New Zealand
Batting
Batter R B SR 4s 6s Dismissal
Arjun Venkatesh 6 5 120.00 1 0 b Blake Saunders
Ishaan Malhotra 13 5 260.00 3 0 c Ollie Vance b Blake Saunders
Kunal Bhatia 11 4 275.00 1 1 c Zane Calder b Ollie Vance
Rohit Kulkarni 63 33 190.91 2 6 c Connor Briggs b Connor Briggs
Aarav Sethi 20 15 133.33 1 1 b Ollie Vance
Aravind Pillai 13 12 108.33 2 0 run out (Blake Saunders)
Rishabh Menon 2 4 50.00 0 0 b Connor Briggs
Yusuf Siddiqui 3 9 33.33 0 0 c Marcus Vale b Connor Briggs
Aditya Rana 45 21 214.29 5 2 not out
Imran Qureshi 21 12 175.00 3 1 not out
Fall of Wickets: 6/1, 19/2, 30/3, 93/4, 113/5, 126/6, 128/7, 131/8
Bowling
Bowler Overs Runs Wkts Econ
Connor Briggs 4.0 24 3 6.00
Blake Saunders 4.0 33 2 8.25
Ollie Vance 4.0 45 2 11.25
Kaito Moriyama 2.0 22 0 11.00
Finlay Grant 3.0 32 0 10.67
Jett Rourke 3.0 41 0 13.67