New🌄 Zealand thrashed Sri Lanka by an innings and 65 runs in the second ꦏTest 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 Willia꧋mson at gully.
Sri Lanka was boꦡwled out for 122 runs after the Blackcaps declared their second innings on 431 for six🅷 with a first-innings lead of 185.
Wicketkeeper-batsman Niros✤han Dickwella (51) fought a lone battle for the hosts but he was the ninth man to be dismissed after a three-hour vigil.
Sri Lanka, who scored 2🌼44 in their first innings, were still 187 behind when they start🌳ed their second innings.
Ajaz Patel, Tim Southee, Trent Boult, and William Somerville all bagged two wickets a💞piece.
With this win, New Zealand has also earned a valuable 60 points to get off the 🦋mark 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 Zeaไland. Outstaಞnding team effort to win the 2nd Test and draw the Test series 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 Captaꦑins holding the trophy of the drawn Test Series
— Sri Lanka Cricket 🇱🇰 (@OfficialSLC)
What a win for New Zealand, on the fina🌜l day of the test series they took all the ten wickets of Srilanka and level the two-match test series.
— Johns. (@CricCrazyJohns)
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Ge🐲t in! Well done that was looking like the one that might 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 serie𒁃s need to die. NZ know how to work as a unit , play the game fairly as well
— Everybody Wang Chung Tonight !🇳🇴🇮🇸🇬🇩 (ꦅ@Yes_IamSancho)
New Zealand seal a memora💫ble w♓in at the P Sara Oval
The series is sharꦉed 1-1, and the visitors have ܫ60 World Test Championship points on the board!
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— Muhammad Noman (@Nomancricket29)
