Adam Milne’s 5-26 helped New Zealand defeat Sri Lanka by nine wickets in the second Twenty20 cricket match.
Quick bowler Adam Milne took 5-26 in the second Twenty20 Global on Wednesday to help New Zealand defeat Sri Lanka by nine wickets.
Milne is the third New Zealander to take five wickets in a Twenty20 international match, joining Lockie Ferguson and Tim Southee. He won 5-18 against Pakistan and 5-21 against the West Indies separately. Milne added to the Faint Covers’ 19-over triumph over Sri Lanka.
New Zealand took the victory thanks to Tim Seifert’s unbeaten 79 from 43 balls with 32 balls remaining and 146-1 in 14.4 overs. After that, he ran six times in a row.
Charith Asalanka was bowled out for 26 runs and Kusal Perera was bowled out for 35 runs by Milne during Sri Lanka’s Super Over victory in the first T20 match on Sunday. These two players scored half-centuries. In addition, he ended the innings by clean bowling Pramod Madushan and Dilshan Madushanka and dismissing opener Pathum Nissanka (0 runs).
“Returning, and it is perfect to place in a respectable execution” was written by A. A. Milne. Getting five for one is fantastic.
Sri Lanka appeared to be on track for another high score when the team reached 50-2 in the powerplay on Wednesday and 83-2 in the first ten overs, led by Perera and Dhanjaya de Silva, who made 37 from 26 balls. Sri Lanka prevailed in the first match with a score of 196-5. For the third wicket, the pair scored 62 runs.
Sri Lanka’s innings lost some of its vitality when spinner Rachin Ravindra bowled De Silva after Milne removed Perera. The meeting players were unable to resist the hotshot’s appeal despite the College Oval’s slow pitch and short, inviting limits. Because New Zealand made good use of the slower ball, a few players got stuck in the deep.
“I think the spinners did really well through the middle there to tie them up,” Milne exclaimed. “I think in contrast to the previous game, we had the decision to take two or three quick wickets in the center, which allowed us to seek after to some degree more,” the manager wrote in a letter.
Chad Bowes, the South African opener, got the New Zealand innings off to a good start by scoring 31 runs from 15 balls, seven of which were fours. He took over Seifert’s attack on the Sri Lankan bowlers after he was run out for 40 runs. After ten overs, New Zealand scored 103-1 immediately.
Seifert reached his sixth T20 century with two fours and four sixes in 30 balls. He hit his sixth six of the innings off the ground bowling of De Silva to make New Zealand 140-1, and on the ball that came next, he hit his seventh six to end the match. Captain Tom Latham contributed with a score of 20 not out in their 106-run partnership with Seifert.
“It was a pretty clinical performance,” Latham stated.
“We retaliated after the first eight overs, and our capacity to continue taking wickets helped us reduce the run rate,” reads the statement. My mind was blown by the way the bowling match was played. The performance of Chad and Tim was the “icing on the cake.”
It was impossible to duplicate Sri Lanka’s batting performance in the first match. “We lost wickets at regular intervals, and 141 was never enough on this wicket,” Captain Dasun Shanaka stated.
“We were looking around the 180 mark when the wickets were there, but we lost too many wickets and couldn’t get there.”
The match marked a significant milestone when Kim Cotton of New Zealand became the first female umpire to stand in a full men’s international between ICC member nations.
On Saturday, the team will play Queenstown in the series finale.