ICC Champions Trophy 2013: NZ vs SL Statistical Highlights

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.