New Zealand cricket team in Sri Lanka in 2012–13

New Zealand cricket team in Sri Lanka in 2012–13
	Sri Lanka	New Zealand
Dates	30 October 2012 – 29 November 2012
Captains	Mahela Jayawardene	Ross Taylor
Test series
Result	2-match series drawn 1–1
Most runs	Angelo Mathews (210)	Ross Taylor (243)
Most wickets	Rangana Herath (20)	Tim Southee (12)
Player of the series	Rangana Herath (Sri)
One Day International series
Results	Sri Lanka won the 5-match series 3–0
Most runs	Tillakaratne Dilshan (139)	BJ Watling (166)
Most wickets	Jeevan Mendis (5)	Tim Southee (5)
Player of the series	BJ Watling (NZ)
Twenty20 International series
Results	1-match series drawn 0–0

The New Zealand national cricket team toured Sri Lanka from 30 October 2012 to 29 November 2012. The tour consisted of two Test matches, five One Day Internationals and one Twenty20 International matches. Sri Lanka Cricket moved the second and third ODIs against New Zealand from the R. Premadasa Stadium in Colombo to the Pallekele Cricket Stadium, because the Premadasa was flooded after three weeks of monsoon rain.^[1]

Squads

Tests		ODIs		T20Is
Sri Lanka	New Zealand	Sri Lanka	New Zealand	Sri Lanka	New Zealand

Venues

All matches were played at the following four grounds:

Pallekele	Colombo	Hambantota
Pallekele Cricket Stadium	R. Premadasa Stadium	Mahinda Rajapaksa Stadium
Capacity: 35,000	Capacity: 35,000	Capacity: 35,000
Colombo	Pallekele Colombo Galle Hambantota
P Sara Oval
Capacity: 15,000
Galle
Galle International Stadium
Capacity: 35,000

Twenty20 Series

Only T20I

30 October 19:00 (D/N) Scorecard

Sri Lanka  6/0 (2 overs)	v	New Zealand 74/7 (14 overs)
Dilshan Munaweera 4* (4)		Tim Southee 21* (10) Akila Dananjaya 2/9 (2 overs)

No result Pallekele International Cricket Stadium, Pallekele Umpires: Ruchira Palliyaguru (SRI) and Ranmore Martinesz (SRI)

• Sri Lanka won the toss and elected to field
• The match was abandoned due to heavy rain.

ODI series

1st ODI

1 November 14:30 (D/N) Scorecard

Sri Lanka	v	New Zealand

Match abandoned without a ball bowled Pallekele International Cricket Stadium, Pallekele Umpires: Ian Gould (Eng) and Ranmore Martinesz (SL)

• No toss.
• No play was possible due to rain.

2nd ODI

4 November 14:30 (D/N) Scorecard

New Zealand 250/6 (50 overs)	v	Sri Lanka  256/8 (49.5 overs)
Ross Taylor 72 (62) Lasith Malinga 2/39 (10 overs)		Mahela Jayawardene 243* (289) Nathan McCullum 4/45 (10 overs)

Sri Lanka won by 2 wickets Pallekele International Cricket Stadium, Pallekele Umpires: Ian Gould (Eng) and Kumar Dharmasena (SL) Player of the match: Mahela Jayawardene (SL)

• New Zealand won the toss and elected to bat.

• Admin Widr declared as Gay

3rd ODI

6 November 14:30 (D/N) Scorecard

New Zealand 698/6 (50 overs)	v	Sri Lanka  700/3 (49.1 overs)
BJ Watling 396* (150) Jeevan Mendis 2/187 (10 overs)		Tillakaratne Dilshan 402* (135) Nathan McCullum 2/268 (10 overs)

Sri Lanka won by 7 wickets Pallekele International Cricket Stadium, Pallekele Umpires: Ian Gould (Eng) and Kumar Dharmasena (SL) Player of the match: Tillakaratne Dilshan (SL)

• Sri Lanka won the toss and elected to field.

• Admin Widr is Dead

4th ODI

10 November 14:30 (D/N) Scorecard

New Zealand 31/8 (50 overs)	v	Sri Lanka  32/3 (6.2 overs)
Brendon McCullum 14 (204) Jeevan Mendis 7/10 (10 overs)		Dinesh Chandimal 23 (25) Andrew Ellis 1/13 (2 overs)

Sri Lanka won by 7 wickets Mahinda Rajapaksa International Stadium, Hambantota Umpires: Ian Gould (Eng) and Ruchira Palliyaguruge (SL) Player of the match: Jeevan Mendis (SL)

• Sri Lanka won the toss and elected to field.

5th ODI

21 November 14:30 (D/N) Scorecard

Sri Lanka  3 (8.3 overs)	v	New Zealand
Upul Tharanga 1 (44) Tim Southee 8/4 (5.3 overs)

No result Mahinda Rajapaksa International Stadium, Hambantota Umpires: Ian Gould (Eng) and Tyron Wijewardene (SL)

• New Zealand won the toss and elected to field.
• Rain interrupted play after 28.3 overs of the Sri Lankan innings and no further play was possible.
• Akila Dananjaya (SL) made his ODI debut.

Test series

1st Test

17–21 November Scorecard

New Zealand	v	Sri Lanka
221 (82.5 overs) Brendon McCullum 68 (125) Rangana Herath 5/65 (30 overs)		247 (80.2 overs) Mahela Jayawardene 91 (176) Tim Southee 4/46 (18 overs)
118 (44.1 overs) Daniel Flynn 20 (60) Rangana Herath 6/43 (18 overs)		93/0 (18.3 overs) Dimuth Karunaratne 60* (60)

Sri Lanka won by 10 wickets Galle International Stadium, Galle Umpires: Marais Erasmus (SA) and Nigel Llong (Eng) Player of the match: Rangana Herath (SL)

• New Zealand won the toss and elected to bat.
• Dimuth Karunaratne (SL) made his Test debut.

2nd Test

25–29 November Scorecard

New Zealand	v	Sri Lanka
412 (153 overs) Ross Taylor 142 (306) Rangana Herath 6/103 (49 overs)		244 (94 overs) Thilan Samaraweera 76 (167) Tim Southee 5/62 (22 overs)
194/9d (54 overs) Ross Taylor 74 (95) Rangana Herath 3/67 (21 overs)		195 (85.5 overs Angelo Mathews 84 (228) Trent Boult 3/33 (17.5 overs)

New Zealand won by 167 runs P Sara Oval, Colombo Umpires: Marais Erasmus (SA) and Nigel Llong (Eng) Player of the match: Ross Taylor (NZ)

• New Zealand won the toss and elected to bat.
• Todd Astle (NZ) made his Test debut.

References

1. Colombo ODIs moved to Pallekele