2nd Test, Sri Lanka tour of New Zealand

at Christchurch, Dec 26-30 2018

New Zealand : 178 & 231/2 * (79 ov)

Sri Lanka : 104

New Zealand lead by 305 runs with 8 wickets remaining

Stumps, day 2

Trent Boult set a record in requiring only 11 balls to take five wickets

24 - 2

Sri Lanka require another 636 runs with 8 wickets remaining
Stumps, day 3

231 - 6

Angelo Mathews 22 * hurt his left hamstring earlier and didn't come out to resume his innings after tea.

Sri Lanka require another 429 runs with 4 wickets remaining

Stumps, day 4

Kusal Mendis, grew in confidence as lunch approached, hitting five boundaries in the final half-hour of the session.
One of those boundaries took him beyond 1000 Test runs in the calendar year
making him only the second batsman after Virat Kohli : to achieve the feat.
That he has got to the milestone at 23, when Kohli had himself been five years older
before making his first 1000-run year was particularly remarkable.