SL vs NZ T20 World Cup Yesterday Super 8 Match Result: Who won yesterday’s match in Sri Lanka vs New Zealand Super-8 match, know the full result, important moments and highlights of the match here.
SL vs NZ T20 World Cup Super 8 Match Result: ICC T20 World Cup host Sri Lanka is out of the tournament. On Wednesday 25 February, New Zealand defeated Sri Lanka by 61 runs in the important match of Super-8. In this match played at Premadasa Stadium in Colombo, Sri Lanka won the toss and decided to bowl first. New Zealand scored 168 runs at the loss of 7 wickets in 20 overs, which the host team could not chase.
Record partnership of Mitchell Santner and McConchie
After losing the toss and coming to bat, the New Zealand team had at one time lost 6 wickets for 84 runs. The team was in great trouble, but captain Mitchell Santner (47 runs) and Cole McConchie (31 runs*) made an important partnership of 84 runs in 47 balls. This is also the biggest partnership for the 7th wicket for New Zealand in T-20 International. Apart from these, Rachin Ravindra also contributed 32 runs.
Target of 169 runs, bad start for Sri Lanka
Sri Lanka had a very bad start while chasing the target of 169 runs. The team lost the wicket of last match’s centurion Pathum Nissanka (0) on the very first ball. He was bowled by Matt Henry. Matt Henry put the host team on the backfoot by getting Charith Aslanka (5 runs) caught out on the first ball of the third over.
Rachin Ravindra’s deadly bowling
Rachin Ravindra almost ended Sri Lanka’s hopes of a comeback in the middle overs. He took the wickets of Dushan Hemantha (3 runs), Dasun Shanaka (3 runs), Kushal Mendis (0) and Pawan Ratnayake (10 runs). For Sri Lanka, Kamindu Mendis scored the highest score of 31 runs, but the rest of the batsmen could not perform well. The entire team was all out after scoring 107 runs for 8 wickets in 20 overs. Rachin Ravindra was adjudged Player of the Match for scoring 32 runs and taking 4 wickets.
Sri Lanka out of the race for semi-finals
With this victory, New Zealand has kept its hopes of reaching the semi-finals intact. The team is second in the points table of Group-2 in the Super-8 stage with 3 points. At the same time, Sri Lanka is out of the race for the semi-finals. The team has lost its first two matches of the Super-8 round. Now even a win against Pakistan will give it only 2 points, which is not enough to reach the top-4.