Sri Lankan cricket team in New Zealand in 2005-06

Infobox_Cricket_series_begin
series_name = Sri Lankans in New Zealand in 2005-06
team1_

team1_name = Sri Lanka
team2_
| team2_name = New Zealand
from_date = 31 December 2005
to_date = 8 January 2006
team1_captain = Marvan Atapattu
team2_captain = Stephen Fleming
Infobox_Cricket_series_ODI
no_of_ODIs = 4
team1_ODIs_won = 1
team2_ODIs_won = 3
team1_ODIs_most_runs = Upul Tharanga
103
team2_ODIs_most_runs = Peter Fulton
112
team1_ODIs_most_wickets = Chaminda Vaas
12
team2_ODIs_most_wickets = Shane Bond
9
player_of_ODI_series = -

The Sri Lankan cricket team toured New Zealand for cricket matches during the 2005–06 season. Sri Lanka were scheduled to play five one-day international games and three Test matches in the 2004–05 season, beginning their tour on December 26 2004, but due to the 2004 Indian Ocean earthquake which hit the island of Sri Lanka hard, the Sri Lankan team travelled home after the first of the one-day internationals. The Test matches were rescheduled to April, and the remaining four ODIs were played between 31 December 2005 and 8 January 2006.

2004–05 tour

First ODI, New Zealand v Sri Lanka, 26 December

Sri Lanka were put in to bat by New Zealand captain Daniel Vettori, and after going through the first eight overs without losing a wicket, Sanath Jayasuriya and Kumar Sangakkara were caught in successive overs. Mahela Jayawardene lasted 10 balls before he, too, was caught, and the three New Zealand seamers Shane Bond, Kyle Mills and Jacob Oram had a wicket each. Oram got another in the 15th over, when opener Upul Tharanga was caught behind for 17, before captain and number five Marvan Atapattu rebuilt with Tillakaratne Dilshan. Their partnership lasted nearly 14 overs, as both passed 20, but Atapattu was caught for 35, and seven overs later Dilshan was also caught, for 42. The last four wickets yielded 31 runs, and Sri Lanka were all out for 164 when Muttiah Muralitharan was caught at mid-off for 0 ref|ci1.

Chasing, New Zealand lost Lou Vincent and Nathan Astle for sub-20 scores (Astle facing 15 balls but only scoring two runs), before their third-wicket pairing, who had played a combined total of one ODI before this match, added 95 runs for the third wicket. Jamie How, the ODI debutant, was eventually bowled when he missed a slog sweep off Sanath Jayasuriya, and was out for 58, but Hamish Marshall chipped in with 16 not out in the unbeaten fourth-wicket stand, and New Zealand won by seven wickets with more than 12 overs remaining.

Third ODI, New Zealand v Sri Lanka, 3 January

References

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# [http://content.cricinfo.com/ci/content/story/136313.html Sri Lanka head home from New Zealand] by Steven Lynch, from Cricinfo, 29 December 2005
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# [http://usa.cricinfo.com/db/ARCHIVE/2005-06/SL_IN_NZ/SCORECARDS/SL_NZ_ODI1_31DEC2005.html New Zealand v Sri Lanka at Queenstown, 31 December 2005] , scorecard from Cricinfo, retrieved 31 December 2005
# [http://content-usa.cricinfo.com/nzvsl/content/story/231179.html Fulton and How demolish Sri Lanka] by S Rajesh of Cricinfo, published 31 December 2005
# [http://uk.cricinfo.com/db/ARCHIVE/2005-06/SL_IN_NZ/SCORECARDS/SL_NZ_ODI2_03JAN2006.html New Zealand v Sri Lanka at Christchurch, 3 January 2005] , scorecard from Cricinfo, retrieved 8 January 2005
# [http://uk.cricinfo.com/db/ARCHIVE/2005-06/SL_IN_NZ/SCORECARDS/SL_NZ_ODI3_06JAN2006.html New Zealand v Sri Lanka at Wellington, 6 January 2005] , scorecard from Cricinfo, retrieved 8 January 2005
# [http://uk.cricinfo.com/db/ARCHIVE/2005-06/SL_IN_NZ/SCORECARDS/SL_NZ_ODI4_08JAN2006.html New Zealand v Sri Lanka at Napier, 8 January 2005] , scorecard from Cricinfo, retrieved 8 January 2005