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2nd Test, Sri Lanka tour of New Zealand - ketchim - 12-27-2018
at Christchurch, Dec 26-30 2018
New Zealand : 178 & 231/2 * (79 ov)
Sri Lanka : 104
New Zealand lead by 305 runs with 8 wickets remaining
Stumps, day 2
2nd Test, Sri Lanka tour of New Zealand - ketchim - 12-27-2018
Trent Boult set a record in requiring only 11 balls to take five wickets
2nd Test, Sri Lanka tour of New Zealand - ketchim - 12-28-2018
24 - 2
Sri Lanka require another 636 runs with 8 wickets remaining
Stumps, day 3
2nd Test, Sri Lanka tour of New Zealand - ketchim - 12-29-2018
231 - 6
Angelo Mathews 22 * hurt his left hamstring earlier and didn't come out to resume his innings after tea.
Sri Lanka require another 429 runs with 4 wickets remaining
Stumps, day 4
2nd Test, Sri Lanka tour of New Zealand - ketchim - 12-29-2018
Kusal Mendis, grew in confidence as lunch approached, hitting five boundaries in the final half-hour of the session.
One of those boundaries took him beyond 1000 Test runs in the calendar year
making him only the second batsman after Virat Kohli : to achieve the feat.
That he has got to the milestone at 23, when Kohli had himself been five years older
before making his first 1000-run year was particularly remarkable.