New Zeal🐻and thrashed🦂 Sri Lanka by an innings and 65 runs in the second Test in Colombo on Monday to level the two-match series 1-1.
The victory🍨 was achieved with an hour left ♕on day five when Lasith Embuldeniya edged a short delivery from Trent Boult to Kane Williamson at gully.
Sri Lanka was bowled out for 122 runs after the B🍌lackcaps꧂ declared their second innings on 431 for six with a first-innings lead of 185.
Wicketkeeper-batsman Niroshan Dickwella (51) fought a lone battle ꧋for the hosts but he was the ninth mওan to be dismissed after a three-hour vigil.
Sri Lanka, who scored 244 💖in their first innings,🃏 were still 187 behind when they started their second innings.
Ajaz Patel, 🌳Tim Southee, Trent Boult, and William Somerville all bagged two wickets api🌄ece.
With this win❀, New Zealand has also earned a valuable 60 points to get off the ma🍎rk in the ICC World Test Championship.
Here’s how Twitter reacted:
That’s the 7th time have 🐼won a test by an innings whilst losing only 6 wickets or fewer.
The third time this year!
🏏🏏🏏— Mike Thorpe (@MikeThorpeNZ)
Well played, New Zealand. Richly deserved.
— Abhishek Mukherjee (@ovshake42)
Congratulations New Zealand. Outstanding team effort to win the 2nd Test and draw the Test 𝕴series 1-1. 👏
— Daniel Alexander (@daniel86cricket)
ALL OVER! Great Test victory on day five 🏏 Trent Boult takes the final wicket with a short ball, the catch spooning to Kane Williamson in the gully. That's our first points!
— BLACKCAPS (@BLACKCAPS)
The Two Captains holding the♛ trophy of the drawn Test Series
— Sri Lanka Cricket 🇱🇰 (@OfficialSLC)
What a win for New Zealand, on the final day of the test series they took all the ten wickets of Srilanka and level the two♔-match test serie🍎s.
— Johns. (@CricCrazyJohns)
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Get in! Well done that was looking like the one th🅠at migh🦩t get away but this team are bloody good! Stoked with that win! Celebrate hard tonight boys!
— Jason JT Tikao (@JTCoast)
Great win for the and levelled the series 1-1.
2 Test series need to die. NZ know how to w꧃ork as a unit , play the game fairly as well
&mꦐdash; Everybody Wang Chung Tonight !🇳🇴🇮🇸🇬🇩 (@Yes_IamSancho)
New Zealand seal a memorable w🍸in at the P Sara Oval
The series is shared 1-1, and the visitors have 60 World Test🅰 Championship poin꧙ts on the board!
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— Muhammad Noman (@Nomancricket29)
