3rd Match * ICC World Cup 2019 * New Zealand vs Sri Lanka

The 3rd Match of  ICC World Cup 2019, New Zealand vs Sri Lanka was played on 1st June 2019 in Sophia Garden, Cardiff. New Zealand won the toss and elected to bowl first.

1st Inning of 3rd Match *  ICC World Cup 2019 * New Zealand vs Sri Lanka

The New Zealand bowlers exploited the condition well and didn’t give any room to the Lankan batsman to settle down and despite of the inning played by  Karunaratne where he scored 52 runs of 84 balls with only 4 fours and  as a result of which Sri Lanka was wrapped up on 136/10 in 29.2 overs.

Matt Henry and Lockie Ferguson bowled beautifully to pick 3 wickets each and rest of the work done by Trent Boult, de Grandhome Neesham and Santner where they picked 3 wickets each.

2nd Inning of 3rd Match *  ICC World Cup 2019 * New Zealand vs Sri Lanka

The New Zealand openers batted sensibly and chased the target quiet comfortably without losing any wicket and scored 137/0 in 16.1 overs where Martin Guptil scored 73 runs (8 fours, 2 sixes) of just 51 balls and Colin Munro scored 58 runs (6 fours, 1 six) of 47 balls.

 Matt Henry was selected as Player of the match as he bowled brilliantly to pick 3 wickets conceding only 29 runs in his 7 overs in 3rd Match *  ICC World Cup 2019 * New Zealand vs Sri Lanka.

   The start of the World Cup was not so good as the matches played were ended up one sidedly which may affect the popularity of the tournament…