ICC Champions Trophy 2013: NZ vs SL Statistical Highlights

Cardiff was the venue in the opening game of the ICC Champions Trophy 2013 where a record 636 runs were scored in 100 overs at the loss of 17 wickets, and at the same venue only 277 runs scored in 74.2 overs at the loss of 19 wickets in the match between New Zealand and Sri Lanka. New Zealand won the match by just 1 wicket with 81 balls to spare in the chase of 138 runs set by Sri Lanka.

Statistical Highlights of the Match # New Zealand and Sri Lanka were playing their 79th match together in ODIs.

# Sophia Gardens, Cardiff hosted its 12th ODI, 3 were washed out.

# Sri Lanka were playing their first match at Cardiff and 39th in England. New Zealand were playing their 3rd at the venue and 48th in England.

# New Zealand and Sri Lanka had met 3 times in Champions Trophy prior to this match with Sri Lanka winning 2 of them.

Sri Lanka Innings

# Kusal Perera was dismissed off the first ball of the match. He is the 3rd batsman to be dismissed on the first ball of the match in CT history, after Sanath Jayasuriya vs India in 2002 final and Shane Watson vs West Indies in 2009.

# Kusal Perera registered the first duck of his ODI career, also his first score below 10.

# Tillakaratne Dilshan averages only 10.33 in 11 innings in England, which is his worst against any official cricket nation.

# Kumar Sangakkara completed 500 runs in ICC Champions Trophy. He is the 3rd Sri Lankan after Mahela Jayawardene (578) and Sanath Jayasuriya (536).

# Kumar Sangakkara (68 off 87 balls) scored the 75th Half century in ODI career. He is only the 6th batsman to score 75 or more half centuries and first Sri Lankan player.

# Kumar Sangakkara scored his 4th half century in ICC Champions Trophy which equals the Sri Lankan record of Mahela Jayawardene.

# Kumar Sangakkara completed 50 fours in ICC Champions Trophy but he has not yet hit a six in the tournament. He is the second batsman after Damien Martyn (63 Fours) to hit 50 or more Fours in the tournament without a six.

# Daniel Vettori dismissed Mahela Jayawardene for the 5th time in his ODI career.

# Dinesh Chandimal made the 7th Duck of his ODI career.

# Kyle Mills took his 24th wicket in the ICC Champions Trophy which equals the record for most wickets in ICC Champions Trophy with Muttiah Muralitharan. Muralitharan played 17 matches while Mills did it in 13 matches.

# Mahela Jayawardene and Kumar Sangakkara completed 1000 ODI runs against New Zealand. The only other Sri Lankan to achieve this is Sanatha Jayasuriya (1519 runs in 47 matches).

# Mitchell McClenaghan (4/43) took his 3rd 4-wicket haul in his 8-match ODI career. This are his second best bowling figures after 4/20 vs SA at Paarl in 2013.

# Mitchell McClenaghan’s figures of 4/43 are the best figures by any bowler against Sri Lanka in ICC Champions Trophy, eclipsing Abdul Razzaq’s 4/50 at Jaipur in the 2006 edition.

# Daniel Vettori took his 275th wicket for New Zealand with the dismissal of Mahela Jayawardene. He is the leading wicket taker for New Zealand in ODIs followed by Kyle Mills with 218 wickets.

# Sri Lanka’s 138 all out is their second lowest total in ICC Champions Trophy behind 132 vs SA at Dhaka in 2008.

New Zealand Innings

# Luke Ronchi has not impressed with his batting for New Zealand in the 4 innings he played. His scores are 0(2), 2(9), 22(17) and 7(11).

# Ross Taylor scored the 7th Duck of his ODI career and 4th against Sri Lanka.

# Lasith Malinga took his 7th 4-wicket haul in ODIs. He has 4 5-wicket hauls and 1 6-wicket haul too.

# Lasith Malinga’s 4/34 are the 4th best bowling figures for Sri Lanka in ICC Champions Trophy.

# Lasith Malinga’s 4/34 are the 4th best bowling figures against New Zealand in ICC Champions Tophy.

# New Zealand’s innings consisted of 5 LBW’s which is a record in ICC Champions Trophy. Though it is the 20th time a team had 5 or more LBW dismissals.

# New Zealand won the match by 1 wicket. This is the narrowest victory in ICC Champions Trophy while chasing. No team before this had won a match by 1 wicket.

# New Zealand won by 1 wicket against Sri Lanka in ODIs for the second time. In 2006, at Queenstown, they won by 1 wicket chasing a total of 224 on the last ball of the match.

# This is the lowest total which New Zealand chased with 9 wickets down. And the third lowest total for any team in ODIs.

# New Zealand’s victory by 1 wickets is the 50th instance a team has won by 1 wicket.

# West Indies have won most matches by 1 wicket, 9. New Zealand are second on the list with 7 such victories.

# New Zealand won their 2nd game against Sri Lanka in ICC Champions Trophy.

# This was New Zealand’s 12th victory in ICC Champions Trophy in 19 matches. Only West Indies with 13 wins are ahead, while they are now level with Australia.

# This was Sri Lanka’s 8th loss in ICC Champions Trophy in 21 matches. Only Pakistan, West Indies andZimbabwe with 9 losses are ahead of them.

New Zealand play their next match against Australia on June 12.

Sri Lanka play their next match against England on June 13.