new zealand vs sri lanka: The third T20 match was played between new zealand vs sri lanka on 2 January. In this match, Kusal Perera scored a brilliant century and gave Sri Lanka a Fabulous victory.
With his stormy innings, he also broke Tillakaratne Dilshan’s record of scoring the fastest half-century.
But in new zealand vs sri lanka match, a tremendous incident happened which is not usually seen. The wicketkeeper covered half the ground while running and then crossed the boundary line and took a catch like Suryakumar.
Mitchell Hay tooks mind-blowing catch, video went viral
in the third over between Sri Lanka and New Zealand, After scoring two runs on the first two balls Nissanka hit a four and a six on consecutive balls of Matt Henry. In this over with a great start, he hit both pull shots. On the next ball, the Sri Lankan opener again tried to hit a pull shot, but the ball hit the top edge.
The ball rose high in the sky and went over the keeper. But wicketkeeper Mitchell Hay immediately started retreating to catch the ball and caught the ball near the boundary rope.
However, the speed of the ball took him across the boundary line and he had to throw the ball in the air to complete the catch and he entered the field again. Such catches are quite common for a regular outfielder, but for a wicketkeeper it seems to be a completely new thing.
Kusal Perera Become the first sri lanakn batsman who scored century in all international formats
When Nisanka was out after scoring 14 runs in 12 balls. After this, Kusal Perera caught everyone’s attention by playing an innings of 101 runs in 46 balls. Left-handed batsman Kusal Perera became the third Sri Lankan player to score an international century in all three formats.
This century of Perera is the first century of a Sri Lankan batsman in New Zealand in 14 years. Sri Lanka scored 218-5. In response, New Zealand showed tremendous fight thanks to Rachin Ravindra’s 69 runs in 39 balls. But in the end he lost by seven runs. However, after winning the first two matches, he captured the series 2-1.
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