Sri Lanka vs New Zealand Live Streaming

Watch Sri Lanka vs New Zealand World Cup 2011 Live Streaming - New Zealand won the toss and elected to bat first.After winning the toss and choosing to bat first, New Zealand set themselves to be positive from the outset, with Guptill leaning into a fine flick over midwicket to dispatch Lasith Malinga's fifth delivery to the boundary. Brendon McCullum followed suit by galloping down the track to loft Rangana Herath's second ball down the ground, and then dropped to one knee to time a superb sweep over square leg for six.

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But in between the boundary shots, runs proved stiflingly hard to come by, and in the eighth over McCullum's patience ran out. He sized up another slog-sweep against Herath but chose the wrong line to attack. The ball held its line to fizz past his outside edge and clip off stump, and McCullum was on his way for 13 from 21 balls.

Jesse Ryder, the hero of New Zealand's stunning quarter-final victory over South Africa, once again looked in good order as he cracked Ajantha Mendis fiercely past point for his first boundary, before leaning into a fraction of width from Angelo Mathews to ease his second four through the covers.

But Muttiah Muralitharan, who looked barely a quarter fit when he dived over a flick from Guptill to let four easy runs slip through his fingers at short fine leg, responded with a ripper of a delivery straight after the drinks break. Lured into another cut, Ryder was already committed to the shot as the ball gripped and bounced, and Kumar Sangakkara held onto the top edge.

All the while, Guptill was bedding down and building for the big one. But the strength of Sri Lanka's bowling is in its variety, and when Malinga returned for his second spell in the 21st over, he instantly found his range. Ross Taylor dug out a fierce late swinger that zipped through third man for four, but two balls later, Guptill was not so lucky. A brutal late-swinging yorker detonated his middle stump, and New Zealand had slumped to 84 for 3.

Sri Lanka vs New zealand Compaq Cup

Watch Sri Lanka vs New Zealand Compaq Cup Live Streaming & Highlights

Sri Lanka, after consecutive Twenty20 defeats, and New Zealand, after a 50-over warm-up defeat to Sri Lanka A on Sunday, will attempt to kick-start the Compaq Cup on Tuesday, though the weather threatens to be a dampener. Scattered thunderstorms are predicted for each of the days this week and a short four-game tournament, already being criticised for its duration and practicality, needs to be competitive throughout to silence growing criticism of the 50-over game's future.

Sri Lanka vs New Zealand 1st Odi Live Streaming

Sri Lanka, almost always formidable opponents on their own soil, do not start as favourites. New Zealand took plenty of confidence from two night wins at the Premadasa last week and they know their biggest shot at winning is getting into Sri Lanka's top order. New Zealand have repeatedly highlighted the importance of dismissing Tillakaratne Dilshan early to put pressure on Kumar Sangakkara and Mahela Jayawardene, leaving a shaky lower order sweating.

Sri Lanka vs New Zealand 1st T20

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Date: 02 Sep 2009

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Sri Lanka squad
KC Sangakkara, TM Dilshan, ST Jayasuriya, DPMD Jayawardene, CK Kapugedera, KMDN Kulasekara, KS Lokuarachchi, SL Malinga, AD Mathews, BAW Mendis, M Muralitharan, RGMJM Rupasinghe, T Thushara, I Udana, ML Udawatte

New Zealand squad
DL Vettori*, SE Bond, NT Broom, IG Butler, BJ Diamanti, GD Elliott, MJ Guptill, BB McCullum†, NL McCullum, PD McGlashan†, KD Mills, JDP Oram, JS Patel, JD Ryder, LRPL Taylor