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1979 Cricket World Cup
1979 season
New Zealand vs Sri Lanka - 2nd Match, Group B
Saturday June 09, 1979 (60-over match)
Venue : Trent Bridge, Nottingham
Toss : New Zealand won the toss and elected to field first
Result : New Zealand won by 9 wickets (with 12.2 overs remaining)


Sri Lanka Inning
(60 overs maximum)
R 
B 
4s 
6s
SR 
»
 Bandula Warnapura c & b McKechnie
20 
58 
2 
0
34.48 
»
 Sunil Wettimuny b Cairns
16 
20 
1 
0
80.00 
»
 Anura Tennekoon b Stott
59 
96 
6 
0
61.46 
»
 Roy Dias c & b Stott
25 
46 
2 
0
54.35 
»
 Duleep Mendis c Turner b Troup
14 
27 
2 
0
51.85 
»
 Somachandra de Silva c Burgess b Stott
6 
24 
0 
0
25.00 
»
 Sunil Jayasinghe run out
1 
3 
0 
0
33.33 
»
 Sudath Pasqual b Hadlee
1 
2 
0 
0
50.00 
»
 Tony Opatha b McKechnie
18 
27 
2 
0
66.67 
»
 Stanley de Silva c Wright b McKechnie
10 
35 
0 
0
28.57 
»
 Ajit de Silva Not Out
2 
11 
0 
0
18.18 
Extras LB 13, W 2, N 2
17
Total : (all out in 56.5 overs)
189
 RR : 3.33

Fall of wickets : 1-26 (Wettimuny), 2-57 (Warnapura), 3-107 (Dias), 4-137 (Mendis), 5-149 (de Silva), 6-150 (Jayasinghe), 7-150 (Tennekoon), 8-154 (Pasqual), 9-178 (de Silva), 10-189 (Opatha)

Bowlers
O
M
R
W
RPO
NB
Wd
  
»
 Sir Richard Hadlee
12
3 
24 
1
2.00
0
0
»
 Gary Troup
10
0 
30 
1
3.00
0
0
»
 Lance Cairns
12
1 
45 
1
3.75
0
0
»
 Brian McKechnie
10
 .5
2 
25 
3
2.31
0
0
»
 Warren Stott
12
1 
48 
3
4.00
0
0

New Zealand innings
(Target: 190 runs in 60 overs)
R 
B 
4s 
6s
SR 
»
 Glenn Turner Not Out
83 
143 
4 
0
58.04 
»
 John Wright c Tennekoon b de Silva
34 
69 
6 
0
49.28 
»
 Geoff Howarth Not Out
63 
75 
8 
1
84.00 
Extras LB 7, W 2, N 1
10
Total : (1 wickets in 47.4 overs)
190
 RR : 3.99

did not bat: Warren Lees, Mark Burgess, Jeremy Coney, Lance Cairns, Brian McKechnie, Warren Stott, Sir Richard Hadlee, Gary Troup

Fall of wickets : 1-64 (Wright)

Bowlers
O
M
R
W
RPO
NB
Wd
  
»
 Tony Opatha
7
1 
31 
0
4.43
0
0
»
 Stanley de Silva
8
2 
18 
0
2.25
0
0
»
 Bandula Warnapura
7
0 
30 
0
4.29
0
0
»
 Somachandra de Silva
9
0 
42 
0
4.67
0
0
»
 Ajit de Silva
12
1 
39 
1
3.25
0
0
»
 Sudath Pasqual
4
 .4
0 
20 
0
4.29
0
0

Match details
Points: New Zealand 4, Sri Lanka 0
Debuts: JV Coney, WK Lees and LW Stott (New Zealand); DLS de Silva, RL Dias, SA Jayasinghe and SP Pasqual (Sri Lanka)
Man of the Match: GP Howarth (New Zealand)
Umpires : WL Budd and KE Palmer

Teams:
New Zealand Warren Lees (wk), Mark Burgess (Capt.), Glenn Turner, John Wright, Geoff Howarth, Jeremy Coney, Lance Cairns, Brian McKechnie, Warren Stott, Sir Richard Hadlee, Gary Troup
Sri Lanka Bandula Warnapura, Sunil Wettimuny, Roy Dias, Duleep Mendis, Stanley de Silva, Sudath Pasqual, Tony Opatha, Somachandra de Silva, Ajit de Silva, Anura Tennekoon (Capt.), Sunil Jayasinghe (wk)
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