New Zealand vs Sri Lanka Live Score, World Cup 2023: Mitchell Santner picks up two wickets, SL seven down
New Zealand vs Sri Lanka Live Score, Cricket World Cup 2023: New Zealand will take on Sri Lanka in a ‘do-or-die’ match on November 9 in Bengaluru. A forecast for rain has added an unknown element to the clash. New Zealand occupy the last semi-final slot available but only by virtue of having a better net run rate than Pakistan and Afghanistan, with all three teams tied on eight points after eight games.
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New Zealand, finalists in 2019, won their first four matches in India before losing the next four. But they do know how to turn things around like they did in 2019 when similarly struggled to make the semis but were able to turn things around and reach the final.
NZ captain Williamson added that pacer Lockie Ferguson’s return after missing two matches due to injury would depend on pitch conditions.
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Behind Rachin Ravindra’s World Cup success, a yearly India tour with the club side owned by his father
New Zealand’s Rachin Ravindra celebrates his century during the ICC Men's Cricket World Cup 2023 match between New Zealand and Pakistan at M. Chinnaswamy Stadium, in Bengaluru, Saturday, Nov. 4, 2023. (PTI PhotoNew Zealand vs Sri Lanka, Cricket World Cup 2023.
As chants of “Rachiiiiin, Rachiiiin,” resounded around the M Chinnaswamy Stadium, TA Balakrishna Adiga, a noted educationist from south Bangalore, was struggling to hold back his emotions with wife and daughter by the side.
After all, his grandson Rachin Ravindra, playing only his first-ever World Cup, had managed to do what no New Zealander has ever done before – three centuries in a single edition. And as he walked back to a thunderous applause after making a 94-ball 108, which takes his tally in the tournament to 523 runs, equalling what Sachin Tendulkar made in the 1996 edition, Adiga was a proud thaatha in every true sense. Rachin’s tally is also the most by a player less than 25 at a World Cup.
This has been a coming of age World Cup for Rachin. Had Kane Williamson been fit and available for the initial part of New Zealand’s campaign, there was a strong chance that Rachin would have spent most of his time here warming the bench. With Devon Conway and the in-form Will Young at the top, Rachin boarded the flight to India, only as a back-up batting option. But eight matches into their campaign, it is the 23-year-old Rachin who has stood out as Kiwis flag-bearer. (READ MORE)
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