It should perhaps go without saying at this level in the trip, but once again, rainfall forms to be the interpreting impact of the coordinate. The last two times in Pallekele have been hot and moist, before rainfall has came after sunset, around time the coordinate is planned to start. Tuesday's prediction is for more of the same.

 But if the elements relents lengthy enough to allow a outcome, both groups have tangible objectives for the sequence. Sri Lanka's first process will be to protected their No. 1 position, having managed it for over a season now. Their durability on top of the factors desk is perhaps as much a representation of the infrequency of Twenty20 cricket as Sri Lanka's interest in it, but it has been a factor of pleasure for the part in a trim season of cricket. They need one win in the two suits to keep their top position, unless both suits are cleaned out.

New Zealand have four Twenty20s planned before the Globe T20 in Bangladesh, which starts this Goal and this sequence will be another work out in developing detail. Wayne Neesham and Neil Brush had had match-winning changes for Otago in the Winners Group, and if selected, both men will want to duplicate their outcomes on switching pitch, and protected a position in the part limited for the Globe T20. In Brendon McCullum and Ross Taylor's lack, men like Henry Ronchi and Colin Munro have to be able to catch the interest of the selectors.