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New Zealand will be facing Sri Lanka at M Chinnaswamy Stadium, Bengaluru in a must-win game as this game will be crucial for their qualification scenario for the ODI World Cup 2023 semi-finals. Sri Lanka despite being eliminated from the semi-finals race will have everything to play for the qualification of Champions Trophy 2025 which would be hosted by Pakistan.
It will be interesting to see if weather permits the full game to happen since a victory would be must for qualification of New Zealand into the knockout stage.
Numbers and Stats ahead of the NZ vs SL game:
1 - Trent Boult need one more wicket to complete the milestone of taking 50 wickets in ODI World Cup.
Most wickets in World Cup:
- Glenn McGrath - 71
- Muralitharan - 68
- Mitchell Starc - 59
- Lasith Malinga - 56
- Wasim Akram - 55
- Chaminda Vaas - 49
- Trent Boult - 49
1 - Maheesh Theekshana need one more wicket to complete the milestone of picking 50 wickets in ODIs.
2 - Trent Boult needs two more wickets to complete the milestone of picking 600 wickets in International cricket.
Most wickets for New Zealand in International cricket:
- Tim Southee - 731
- Daniel Vettori - 696
- Trent Boult - 598
3 - Dilshan Madushanka needs three more wickets to become the leading wicket-taker for Sri Lanka in a single World Cup edition.
Most wickets for Sri Lanka in a single World Cup edition:
- Chaminda Vaas - 23 in 2003
- Muralitharan - 23 in 2007
- Dilshan Madushanka - 21 in 2023
7 - New Zealand have emerged victorious in the last seven meetings against Sri Lanka in ODIs.
- New Zealand vs Sri Lanka in last seven ODI matches:
- New Zealand win by 6 wickets in Hamilton, 2023
- New Zealand win by 198 runs in Auckland, 2023
- New Zealand win by 10 wickets in Cardiff, 2019 World Cup
- New Zealand win by 115 runs in Nelson, 2019
- New Zealand win by 21 runs in Mount Maunganui, 2019
- New Zealand win by 45 runs in Mount Maunganui, 2019
- New Zealand win by 36 runs in Mount Maunganui, 2016
Last time Sri Lanka defeated New Zealand in an ODI match was way back in December, 2015.
Notably since January 2015, New Zealand and Sri Lanka have played each other only 19 times in ODIs where Sri Lanka was seen winning only three ODI games overall (NR-2).
13 - Sadeera Samarawickrama needs 13 more runs to complete the milestone of 1000 runs in his ODI career.
Fastest to complete 1000 runs for Sri Lanka in ODIs (by innings batted):
- Roy Dias - 27
- Upul Tharanga - 28
- Kusal Mendis - 28
- Charith Asalanka - 28
Sadeera Samarawickrama has completed 987 runs in ODIs from 28 innings.
50 - Tom Latham needs 50 more runs to complete the milestone of 4000 runs in his ODI career.
