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Matt Henry silenced a afloat location astatine the R. Premadasa Stadium connected Wednesday (February 25, 2026) erstwhile helium breached Pathum Nissanka’s gross with a nip-backer and castled him disconnected the archetypal shot of Sri Lanka’s pursuit of 169.
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The big ne'er truly recovered from the morale-crushing autumn of its in-form batter and yet crashed retired of the T20 World Cup with a 61-run nonaccomplishment to New Zealand, its second-straight decision successful the Super Eight.
After Sri Lanka mislaid 2 aboriginal wickets, Kusal Mendis and Pavan Rathnayake attempted a betterment .But the extremity of their laborious 21-run third-wicket concern disconnected 36 balls sent Sri Lanka into a escaped fall.
The duplicate dismissals helped Rachin Ravindra execute career-best figures of 4 for 27, with Dasun Shanaka and Dushan Hemantha besides becoming his victims .Kamindu Mendis’ reverse sweeps disconnected Ish Sodhi and Cole McConchie came excessively precocious to truly plaything the contention backmost successful Sri Lanka’s favour.
He yet pulled a half-tracker from Mitchell Santner to heavy midwicket and departed for a 23-ball 31 arsenic Sri Lanka ended astatine conscionable 107 for eight.
The crippled slipped from Sri Lanka’s grasp successful the past 4 overs of the archetypal innings, wherever it leaked 70 runs to the unfancied brace of Santner (47, 26b, 2x4 , 4x6) and McConchie (31 n.o., 23b, 3x4, 2x6) .Their seventh-wicket concern got New Zealand 84 disconnected 47 balls, salvaging it from a precarious 84 for six.
Sri Lanka’s capitulation was unexpected aft its spinners controlled the tempo of the New Zealand innings .Maheesh Theekshana and Dunith Wellalage extracted grip and crook to bring the Kiwis crashing from 75 for 2 to 84 for six. But they had small inkling that Santner and McConchie were astir to interruption escaped and formed a pall implicit their evening.
The scores: New Zealand 168/7 successful 20 overs (Rachin Ravindra 32, Mitchell Santner 37, Luke McConchie 31 n.o., Maheesh Theekshana 3/30, Dushmantha Chameera 3/28) bt Sri Lanka 107/8 successful 20 overs (Kamindu Mendis 31, Matt Henry 2/3, Rachin Ravindra 4/27). Toss: Sri Lanka; PoM: Rachin.
