Sri Lanka Vs New Zealand Day 2: Williamson-Nicholls double century, New Zealand declared first innings on 580, Sri Lanka’s score 26/2 till the end of the day’s play
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The second match of the two-match Test series between Sri Lanka and New Zealand is being played in Wellington. New Zealand started the second day with a score of 155/2. New Zealand declared their innings on a mammoth score of 580 runs losing 4 wickets. At the same time, by the end of the second day’s play on Saturday, Sri Lanka have scored 26 runs at the loss of 2 wickets, and they are 554 runs behind New Zealand.
For New Zealand, Kane Williamson scored the highest 215 and Henry Nicholls scored 200 runs. Sri Lanka got its first blow in the form of Oshada Fernando. Fernando scored 6 runs and handed over the catch to Tom Blundell on the ball of Matt Henry. At the same time, Kusal Mendis got out without opening the account. He was caught by Doug Bracewell at the hands of Devon Conway. Dimuth Karunaratne is unbeaten on 16 and Prabhat Jayasuriya on 4 runs.
Williamson and Nicholls double century
For New Zealand, Kane Williamson and Henry Nicholls scored double centuries and played a huge partnership of 363 runs. Williamson scored 215 and Nicholls scored an unbeaten 200. This was Williamson’s 28th Test century. Williamson scored 215 runs in 296 balls with the help of 23 fours and two sixes.
At the same time, Nicholls hit 15 fours and four sixes in his unbeaten 200 off 240 balls. This is Williamson’s third consecutive century innings. He had scored a century in the first Test against Sri Lanka and before that against England as well.
Take a look at the records made in this match
- Kane Williamson became the first New Zealand batsman to complete 8000 Test runs.
- This was the sixth double century of Williamson’s career.
- The 363-run partnership between Williamson and Nicholls is the 5th highest partnership for New Zealand.
- It was the first time that two double hundreds had come in the same Test for New Zealand.
- There was a partnership of more than 300 runs for the 8th time in Test cricket.
- This was the 18th time that two batsmen have scored double centuries in a Test innings.
