Sri Lanka Ended Its 10 Year Drought: The Sri Lankan team, which reached New Zealand tour, had to face a 2-1 defeat in the ODI series after the T20 series, but the visiting team won the last ODI and broke an unwanted 10 year old shameful record. Has given. Yes, before winning in Auckland today (11 January 2025), the Sri Lankan team’s last ODI win against New Zealand was in 2015. Since then, the Sri Lankan cricket team was always longing to win the ODI on the New Zealand tour.
Since 2015, the Sri Lankan team had visited New Zealand for the ODI series a total of three times. The first visit was in the year 2016. Where a two-match ODI series was played between the two teams. But here the visiting team could not win even a single match. After that, the Sri Lankan team reached for the second time in the year 2019. Meanwhile, both the teams clashed in the three-match ODI series. Here too the Sri Lankan team had to face defeat in every match.
Two ODIs were played between the two teams in 2023.
After these two failures, the Sri Lankan team toured New Zealand for the third time in 2023. This time there was a two-match ODI series between the two teams, but the result of both these matches was in favor of the Kiwi team. In such a situation, for the last 10 years the Sri Lankan team was yearning for a single win on the New Zealand tour. Which has now been completed under the captaincy of Asalanka.
Sri Lanka won by 140 runs
The third match of the tournament was played today at Eden Park in Auckland. Where the Sri Lankan team, after winning the toss and batting first, managed to score 290 runs at the loss of eight wickets in 50 overs. While chasing the target, the Kiwi team collapsed for only 150 runs in 29.4 overs. After which, in the last match, the Sri Lankan team won by a huge margin of 140 runs.
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