After winning the toss and deciding to bat Sri Lanka's captain Kumar Sangakkara scored a ton. With a 63 from Mahela Jayawardena and at the tail end Angelo Mathews scoring unbeaten 41 out of 35 balls to set a target of 266 for New Zealand to chase.
Legendary Sri Lankan bowler Muttiah Muralitharan took 4-25 to demolish the black caps to 153.
Sangakkara was the Man-of-the-Match hitting 111 for off of 128 balls after New Zealand bowled off Upul Tharanga and Tillakaratne Dilshan for 3 each.
Today's win will place at the second position of the point table. The final position before the knock-out quarter final round will depend on the Australia-Pakistan match on Saturday.
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