Kusal Perera and Tillakaratne Dilshan hit 96 fast operates together, as Sri Lanka perfectly sought after down New Zealand's moderate 142 for 7 to take the sequence 1-0. Both hit half-centuries, and while Kusal's was the more belligerent, and the more eye-catching, Dilshan again stimulate his improving hunger to carry goes after house. He was unbeaten on 59 off 49 paintballs - his 7th worldwide 50 in eight innings - after Kusal had walloped 57 from 37. 

 Miserly debutant Ramith Rambukwella had been the only man to provide four overs in a row for Sri Lanka, as Dinesh Chandimal created excellent use of the Twenty20 go-karting shares at his convenience. All seven bowlers were known as upon, treated in brief means and changed quickly when the batsmen revealed symptoms and symptoms of convenience. New Zealand did not experience a failure, but relationships were avoided, and on a awkward area, Sri Lanka's managed displaying avoided even the in-form Nathan McCullum from doing uncontrollable harm at the loss of life.

Though Kusal's innings was emphatic, it had its discuss of excellent luck. He lofted his second football great over the long-on border, but two supply later, should have been going returning to the dugout, when he drawn Mitchell McClenaghan to Phil Ellis, at in reverse square-leg. Ellis shelled that opportunity, perhaps because the football was hit so difficult, but Colin Munro did not have that reason on the lengthy leg border, when he too dropped one, with Kusal on 39.