Put into bat in hosts New Zealand got off to an amazing begin with openers Brendon McCullum and Martin Guptill putting on a 111 run stand for the first wicket. McCullum scored his 28th half century comprehensive of 10 limits and a six. He was at long last fixed when he was gotten in the profound off the playing of Rangana Herath for 65.
Martin Guptill fell one run shy of a half century as he was rejected by Suranga Lakmal. Kane Williamson proceeded with his great structure with the willow and went ahead to score the second half century of the kiwi innings.However Williamson fell not long after in the wake of scoring his half century to the playing off Jeevan Mendis. Ross Taylor was baffled off the precise next conveyance for only 14 runs.
Enormous hitting Corey Anderson went to the pleat from that point and made a swashbuckling 75 off 46 balls before being fixed in the last conveyance of the kiwi innings. The hosts posted 331 runs for the loss of 6 wickets in their 50 overs.
Sri Lanka were messy on the field today and missed some extremely straightforward discovers, giving additional lives to key players, for example, Kane Williamson and Corey Anderson, both of whom went ahead to score half hundreds of years. The pace assault of Nuwan Kulasekara and Lasith Malinga released runs at each case on which they were given the ball, they wound up with economy rates of 9.79 and 8.4 separately. Suranga Lakmal and Jeevan Mendis stowed 2 wickets a piece for Sri Lanka.
Lankan openers Lahiru Thirimanne and T.M.Dilshan gave the guests an enduring begin with an opening stand of 67 runs. Dilshan was the first to fall as he was gotten and rocked the bowling alley by Daniel Vettori.
Thirimanne who scored his eleventh ODI half Century today was the beside fall as he was rocked the bowling alley by Trent Boult. Mahela Jayawardene did not inconvenience the scores today while Kumar Sangakkara figured out how to score 39 runs before being fixed.
The Sri Lankan center request which has neglected to perform reliably over the recent months disintegrated by and by like a place of cards and Sri Lanka were knocked down some pins out for 233 runs in 46.1 overs. Captain Angelo Mathews battled a singular fight in the center request with a thump of 46.
Tim Southee, Trent Boult, Adam Milne, Daniel Vettori and Corey Anderson sacked 2 wickets a piece. Anderson likewise left with the man of the match recompense.
