Before this coordinate, 21-year-old Tom Latham had featured that even this exhausted New Zealand part supported themselves to pursuit high ratings against Sri Lanka. Stunning a scintillating career-best 86 off 68 supply, Latham shown that risk was not just bluster, as he taken the guests most of the range of their 8.6-an-over, rain-shortened pursuit before an ebullient Nathan McCullum drawn the coordinate from the verge again, plundering the needed 20 off the ultimate over to drive New Zealand beyond the focus on of 198 off the last football. Along the way, Henry Ronchi hit his best ranking for New Zealand, creating 49 in the belligerent 93-run collaboration with Latham that raised from the dead the innings, after four wickets had dropped beginning of Cricket. 

The coordinate had previously been disturbed for five-and-a-half time by rainfall and super, as Kumar Sangakkara and Tillakaratne Dilshan developed easily to a 126-run unbroken second-wicket take a position. But, despite attaining a excellent complete, and a amazing starting rush from Nuwan Kulasekara, Sri Lanka's bowlers could not deal with a wet football or the fighting resistance batsmen.

The pursuit took two significant creativities in the ultimate overs, as Angelo Mathews, the Sri Lanka leader, gambled fearlessly but missing out support Rangana Herath to keep his sensors. Latham and Ronchi had smote 69 between the Fifteenth and Nineteenth overs and had introduced the needed determine to a controllable 41 from four overs, leading to Mathews' dangerous perform. His two ace bowlers, Lasith Malinga and Kulasekara, had three overs remaining to dish between them, and he known as for them instantly, flavored amazing achievements at first. Malinga's 4th over - the twentieth of the coordinate - price only four, before Kulasekara eliminated both Latham and Ronchi in the Twenty-first, apparently moving the coordinate for sure in Sri Lanka's favor.