New Zealand needed 13 runs to win and six to tie to reach the end of the regular over, while Sri Lanka batted first and scored an impressive 196-5.
Sri Lanka won the first Twenty20 cricket international played in a Super Over on Sunday when New Zealand tailender Ish Sodhi hit a six off the final ball of the 20th over to force a tiebreaker.
Dasun Shanaka, the commander of Sri Lanka, challenged Sodhi in the last finished. Shanaka has performed well in T20I matches and has a 9.6 average.
Sodhi scored six runs by swinging his bat over midwicket and into the stands after receiving a full, angled delivery. As a result, New Zealand won 196-8 against Australia to advance to the Super Over.
While Sri Lanka approached Maheesh Theekshana to bowl, Daryl Mitchell, Jimmy Neesham, and Imprint Chapman, New Zealand’s leading scorer, were selected for the team. Additionally, Neesham was one of their preferred batters when they lost to England in the World Cup final at Lord’s four years ago.
After the third ball struck Neesham, Mitchell scored with a single from the base pitch. The following pitch was too broad. After Chapman was bowled with the last ball, New Zealand just got 8-2 after Chapman hit a two and a four.
Jimmy Neesham was selected to bowl for Sri Lanka, and Kusal Mendis and Charith Asalanka were selected to bat for the team. With 67 runs from 41 vehicles, including six sixes, Asalanka was the social affair’s driving scorer, making him the best competitor for the Genuinely Wrapped up.
After Mendis hit a single from the first pitch, Asalanka hit a six-footer with a club that hit Mendis and crossed Chapman’s boundary. When Asalanka swung the subsequent ball, Sri Lanka was getting close to winning by a score of 11-0. Light rain led to an unexpected conclusion to the match.
Asalanka stated, “It was an extremely exciting and nervous game.” Because of how well the two teams were playing together, it ended up being our day.
I tried to cross the small area’s boundaries. We as a team are aware that in Twenty20 matches, we can push many boundaries with the right attitude.
Pathaum Nissanka, a 50-year-old participant in the three-day third one-day overall three days earlier, was eliminated by Adam Milne’s most significant move.
Instead of deflecting its top request, Sri Lanka went into full attack mode because it felt squeezed. Sri Lanka scored 22 runs in the third over thanks to Mendis’ two sixes and two fours and Kusal Perera’s 16 runs in the second over of the innings.
That set the tone for the innings. Mendis was fortunate to score 25 runs from nine balls before his luck ran out in a fast-paced innings that saw Sri Lanka reach 50 in just 3.4 overs. Asalanka scored for a long time from 32 balls, while Perera scored for a long time from 39 balls.
Chad Bowes was run out three balls later, making it 3-2, and Tim Seifert was run out by the fourth ball of New Zealand’s innings.
“Eden Park hosted yet another outstanding cricket match.” The New Zealand commander Tom Latham, who was playing on his 31st birthday, stated, “It will typically create a ton of spine chillers.”
Sadly, our position was rejected. We tried to reestablish it toward the end of our innings, and I accepted that Ish’s big home run, which scored six runs, was especially moving. In any case, that was not the objective.