Bang…bang…bang. When there was a clash between the ball and the bat in the first international match of the year 2025 on New Zealand soil, what happened could only be called a blast. Everything seen in this match can thrill the cricket lovers. Before reaching the result, this match played between Sri Lanka and New Zealand continued till the last ball of the last over. In this match, there was rain of sixes and there was also a mountain of runs. In the end, the Sri Lankan team was successful in writing the script of its amazing victory.

Record made with 429 runs in NZ vs SL match

In the last match of the 3 T20 series between New Zealand and Sri Lanka, the competition was so tough that the difference between victory and defeat was only 7 runs despite the high-score. Sri Lanka batted first in the match and scored 218 runs losing 5 wickets in 20 overs. The New Zealand team, which came to reply, also gave its all but remained 7 runs short of the target. They scored 211 runs losing 7 wickets in 20 overs. In this way, by adding the scores of both the teams, a total of 429 runs were scored in the match, which is a new record for the total runs in the T20 match played between the two teams.

Kusal Perera scored the fastest T20I century for Sri Lanka

Sri Lankan team, playing first, managed to score 218 runs because Kusal Perera scored a lot of runs on their behalf. He created a new record for Sri Lanka by scoring the fastest T20I century. Kusal Perera played an inning of 101 runs in 45 balls against New Zealand. During this, he completed his century in just 44 balls, which included 13 fours and 4 sixes. In terms of scoring the fastest T20I century for Sri Lanka, Perera broke the record of Dilshan's century in 55 balls in 2011.

Sri Lanka's attack, New Zealand's counterattack

Now, when the New Zealand team came to answer the runs scored by Sri Lanka due to the explosive century of Kusal Perera, the rain of runs did not reduce from there either. The opening pair gave a blazing start of 81 runs. Even though no batsman from the Kiwi team scored a century, he remained one step ahead of Sri Lanka in hitting sixes.

25 sixes were hit in the match, New Zealand lost

If Sri Lanka hit 12 sixes in the match, in response the New Zealand team hit 13 sixes. But, even after this, New Zealand had to face defeat after coming last in this match of 25 sixes. With this, the Kiwi team's aspirations of making a clean sweep in the series were also dashed. They won the series 2-1 despite losing the last test. New Zealand had won both the T20 matches played earlier.