Daryl Mitchell Archives

Sheep to the slaughterhouse in Auckland – Sri Lanka surrender in the house of pain – BY TREVINE RODRIGO IN MELBOURNE (eLanka Sports editor) The Test series was a disaster, so Sri Lanka changed focus and sought solace and new direction from the one day series. But that dream of a reversal of fortunes quickly dissipated to horror as New Zealand thrashed the hapless Lankans in the first one-dayer at the garden of pain in Auckland. Known over the ages for being a venue where the Kiwis are unstoppable, mainly in Rugby Union, the Lankans were quickly reminded about this statistic as New Zealand’s batters and bowlers ran riot to complete an embarrassing demolition of the visiting Islanders. Dasun Shanaka and his team will reflect on a lack of proper preparation and planning of the tour where most of the squad were given insufficient time to acclimatise and work out ...

Marsh, Warner powers Australia to T20 World Cup triumph over formidable KIWIS -their first T 20 WC Pride – by Sunil Thenabadu (Sports editor – eLanka) Williamson’s swashbuckling 85 in vain as New Zealand lose second consecutive global limited-overs final, but they were the Test Champions in year 2020 Australia 173 for 2 (Marsh 77*, Warner 53, Boult 2-18) beat New Zealand 172 for 4 (Williamson 85, Hazlewood 3-16) by eight wickets The T 20 WC eighth edition with a hectic schedule of almost a month culminated with the final between Australia and the new Zealand both teams having demolished the more fancied opponents Pakistan and England in exhilarating run chases in the semi-finals in the final three to four overs.This has been a tournament having presented with complicated, two-paced pitches, and, as a consequence, it has recorded with the team chasing winning more than ninety percent of the matches . Aaron Finch the ...