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Summary
- Three wickets for Henry
- Perera & K Mendis fall in two balls
- Ferguson strikes in first over
- NZ without injured Southee
- Green pitch at Cardiff, NZ won toss
- Australia v Afghanistan at 12:30 BST
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SL 53-4
Here comes Angelo Mathews. This pair need to shine if Sri Lanka are going to get anything from this came.
He taps his first ball to leg for no run.
A superb start by Lockie Ferguson – one wicket and one run from his first over.
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Paul Farbrace
Warwickshire coach & former England assistant coach on TMS
The captain doesn’t want to give the review to his young player! Oh, that is out, though.
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Dhananjaya lbw Ferguson 4 (SL 53-4)
Trapped in front! Big appeal! Given and gone!
Lockie Ferguson speeds one through Dhananjaya de Silva, whose footwork fails him and he’s rapped on the pads.
It looked a bit high at first but very straight and umpire Rod Tucker raises the finger.
Dhananjaya asks captain Dimuth Karunaratne about a review but they opt against it.
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Bryan Waddle
BBC Test Match Special commentator
This will be an interesting bowling change – Lockie Ferguson has extra pace and bounce, but will he get assistance on this pitch?
SL 52-3
More superb work from Matt Henry – just one off this over too.
The strangle is on.
Time for a bowling change – here comes Lockie Ferguson on for Trent Boult.
He’s the fastest bowler in the world in terms of average delivery pace. Just exactly what Sri Lanka wanted.
How’s stat?!
SL 51-3
Karunaratne 12, Dhananjaya 4
No counter-attacking for Sri Lanka now, they’re under serious pressure.
Trent Boult concedes just one from a testing 10th over.
New Zealand’s powerplay.
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That’s a blow. But not as big a blow as it might have been with Matt Henry bowling like this.
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Jeremy Coney
Ex-New Zealand captain on Test Match Special
I had a word with Tim Southee and he didn’t think he’d be ready for the next game either – probably game number three, which is against South Africa at Taunton.
SL 50-3
Matt Henry nips it back off the seam into Dhanajaya de Silva’s pads.
A strangled appeal but nothing doing, that was going over.
And Henry finishes off a sublime over by zipping the last past the outside edge.
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Alison Mitchell
BBC Test Match Special
That’ll probably settle some nerves for Dhananjaya.
SL 50-3
Hahahaha. What a shot to a hat-trick ball!
Dhanajaya de Silva punches sumptuously down the ground for four. Immaculate drive.
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Phil Long
TMS statistician
There have been nine World Cup hat-tricks – but none by a New Zealander. The last World Cup hat-trick was by South Africa’s JP Duminy in 2015.
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Dhananjaya de Silva will face the hat-trick ball.
Here we go…
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Jeremy Coney
Ex-New Zealand captain on Test Match Special
It wasn’t what you’d call a genuine edge – it’s almost off the blade of the bat. Guptill saw it and in the slips, you have to go if you think you can. He had his head and eyes in line with the catch and he never looked like dropping it.
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Alison Mitchell
BBC Test Match Special
That is really how a slip catch should be taken!
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K Mendis c Guptill b Henry 0 (SL 46-3)
What a jaffa! And a cracking catch!
Matt Henry gets a right-hander in Kusal Mendis to aim at and nicks him off first ball.
Shape away and Mendis fends at it, the ball flying low towards the slips where second slip Martin Guptill dives in front of first slip Ross Taylor to take a superb catch.
A golden duck for Mendis. Two in two balls for the Kiwis – Henry is on a hat-trick!
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Jeremy Coney
Ex-New Zealand captain on Test Match Special
A comfortable catch for De Grandhomme – New Zealand will be very relieved that’s happened because 34 runs have come from the last five overs, and that’s leaking runs.
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K Perera c De Grandhomme b Henry 29 (SL 46-2)
Kusal Perera picks the wrong ball to try and blast.
Matt Henry has taken a bit of damage but keeps pitching the ball up and gets a bit of nip to induce Perera into miscuing his hoik.
The ball flies high into the air, two fielders briefly look at each other, before Colin de Grandhomme calls it and pouches the catch at mid-on.
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Jeremy Coney
Ex-New Zealand captain on Test Match Special
While the good start was there for New Zealand, this is very much in Sri Lanka’s favour at the moment.
World Cup: NZ strike with second ball v Sri Lanka - in-play clips, radio & text - BBC Sport
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