30th Match: New Zealand v Sri Lanka - Scorecard

World T20 - 30th match, Group 1

New Zealand v Sri Lanka

Sri Lanka won by 59 runs

• T20I no. 395 | 2013/14 season
• Played at Zahur Ahmed Chowdhury Stadium, Chittagong (neutral venue)
• 31 March 2014 - day/night (20-over match)

	Sri Lanka innings (20 overs maximum)		R	M	B	4s	6s	SR
	MDKJ Perera	c †Ronchi b Boult	16	8	8	2	1	200.00
	TM Dilshan	c †Ronchi b Boult	8	17	11	1	0	72.72
	DPMD Jayawardene	b NL McCullum	25	56	32	2	0	78.12
	KC Sangakkara†	c Anderson b Boult	4	9	11	1	0	36.36
	HDRL Thirimanne	c Guptill b Neesham	20	21	18	3	0	111.11
	AD Mathews	c †Ronchi b McClenaghan	6	10	10	0	0	60.00
	NLTC Perera	c Williamson b Mills	16	20	13	3	0	123.07
	KMDN Kulasekara	c NL McCullum b McClenaghan	0	3	1	0	0	0.00
	SMSM Senanayake	c Williamson b Neesham	17	17	11	1	1	154.54
	HMRKB Herath	not out	1	6	1	0	0	100.00
	SL Malinga*	b Neesham	0	1	1	0	0	0.00
	Extras	(lb 2, w 3, nb 1)	6
	Total	(all out; 19.2 overs)	119	(6.15 runs per over)

Fall of wickets 1-20 (MDKJ Perera, 1.5 ov), 2-29 (Dilshan, 3.3 ov), 3-35 (Sangakkara, 5.6 ov), 4-65 (Thirimanne, 11.1 ov),5-81 (Mathews, 13.5 ov), 6-85 (Jayawardene, 14.6 ov), 7-92 (Kulasekara, 15.4 ov), 8-116 (NLTC Perera, 18.2 ov),9-119 (Senanayake, 19.1 ov), 10-119 (Malinga, 19.2 ov)

	Bowling	O	M	R	W	Econ
	KD Mills	4	0	30	1	7.50
	TA Boult	4	0	20	3	5.00	(1nb, 1w)
	CJ Anderson	3	0	13	0	4.33	(1w)
	MJ McClenaghan	4	0	24	2	6.00	(1w)
	JDS Neesham	2.2	0	22	3	9.42
	NL McCullum	2	0	8	1	4.00

	New Zealand innings (target: 120 runs from 20 overs)		R	M	B	4s	6s	SR
	MJ Guptill	run out (Herath/†Sangakkara)	5	13	9	0	0	55.55
	KS Williamson	run out (Mathews/Herath)	42	69	43	6	0	97.67
	BB McCullum*	st †Sangakkara b Herath	0	4	5	0	0	0.00
	LRPL Taylor	lbw b Herath	0	8	5	0	0	0.00
	JDS Neesham	b Herath	0	1	1	0	0	0.00
	L Ronchi†	lbw b Herath	2	5	4	0	0	50.00
	NL McCullum	c Mathews b Senanayake	2	7	9	0	0	22.22
	KD Mills	lbw b Senanayake	4	14	9	1	0	44.44
	TA Boult	c Jayawardene b Herath	3	10	8	0	0	37.50
	MJ McClenaghan	not out	0	1	0	0	0	-
	CJ Anderson	absent hurt	-
	Extras	(w 2)	2
	Total	(all out; 15.3 overs)	60	(3.87 runs per over)

Fall of wickets 1-18 (Guptill, 3.1 ov), 2-18 (BB McCullum, 3.6 ov), 3-23 (Taylor, 5.5 ov), 4-23 (Neesham, 5.6 ov),5-29 (Ronchi, 7.3 ov), 6-33 (NL McCullum, 9.3 ov), 7-51 (Mills, 13.3 ov), 8-60 (Williamson, 15.1 ov), 9-60 (Boult, 15.3 ov)

	Bowling	O	M	R	W	Econ
	KMDN Kulasekara	3	0	15	0	5.00	(2w)
	AD Mathews	4	0	26	0	6.50
	HMRKB Herath	3.3	2	3	5	0.85
	SL Malinga	2	0	13	0	6.50
	SMSM Senanayake	3	0	3	2	1.00

Match details

Toss New Zealand, who chose to field Points Sri Lanka 2, New Zealand 0

Player of the match HMRKB Herath (Sri Lanka)

Umpires Aleem Dar (Pakistan) and RJ Tucker (Australia) TV umpire BNJ Oxenford (Australia) Match referee DC Boon (Australia) Reserve umpire SJ Davis (Australia)

Match notes

Sri Lanka innings Powerplay: Overs 0.1 - 6.0 (Mandatory - 35 runs, 3 wickets) Sri Lanka: 50 runs in 8.3 overs (52 balls), Extras 4 Sri Lanka: 100 runs in 17.3 overs (106 balls), Extras 6 Innings Break: Sri Lanka - 119/10 in 19.2 overs (HMRKB Herath 1) New Zealand innings Powerplay: Overs 0.1 - 6.0 (Mandatory - 23 runs, 4 wickets) New Zealand: 50 runs in 12.5 overs (77 balls), Extras 2

Netherlands prey on ousted England

The Big Picture

After England's defeat to South Africa this is now a dead match but there is a compelling reason not to ignore this contest. Although Netherlands' barnstorming chase against Ireland to secure their progress in this tournament was fantastic, Lord's 2009 remains their greatest day on a cricket field.

A few England players are probably wishing they could board a plane home straight away and if an attitude of indifference creeps in now that they cannot progress Netherlands can pounce and secure another famous victory. They have impressed hugely over the last couple of weeks, rebounding from a last-ball defeat against Zimbabwe to progress to the second phase. They then recovered their poise after being humbled for 39 by Sri Lanka to get into a position where they should have beaten South Africa before making New Zealand work hard.

A lack of composure at crucial moments with the bat has cost them: the lower order panicked with history in their grasp against South Africa and the final two overs against New Zealand only brought 10 runs as Ben Cooper could not lay bat on ball.

For England, the problem has been the opposite. Their batting has performed solidly, more so than many expected, with totals of 172, 190 and 193, but they have been let down by the bowling and fielding. The issues with damp balls and dewy outfields only hold so much water for international cricketers. Actually taking wickets in T20 should never be underestimated and England have not been able to find a strike bowler.

Giles unsure of effect on job prospects

	Ashley Giles will hope that isn't the last time he leaves the scene as England coach © Getty Images  Enlarge
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Ashley Giles said he didn't know whether England's humiliation at the hands of Netherlands would have a negative impact on his prospects of becoming head coach across all three formats but accepted that the performance was unacceptable from the players he hopes to lead on a full-time basis.

A 45-run defeat to an Associate team completed a winter of miserable cricket from England. Giles has been in charge for a good proportion of it with ODI and T20 series defeats in Australia followed by another 20-over reverse in the Caribbean. But being rolled by the Netherlands saw England plumb new depths. It was not what Giles wanted to take into the interview room at Lord's.

"It never helps does it, losing to Holland," he said. "We wanted to leave here after what in some ways were some positive performances with a win. It has been a difficult winter. The sun will still come up tomorrow but sometimes it feels like it won't when you have days like that at the office and it wasn't good from anyone. I'm sure the ECB know that but there is not much more we can say except that it was unacceptable and embarrassing."

Giles thought England were complacent in their pursuit of 134 - a target that should have been swallowed up after previous totals of 193, 190 and 172 in the tournament. It was not the first time this winter that England have coughed up a match in pursuit of a target very much within reach.

"Unfortunately it has been quite a common trait of ours in these games to make them look difficult and to at times lose them and you can't do that," Giles said. "You can't just pick and choose when you are up for it. You have to be up for it all the time.

Dutch delight cannot mask uncertain future

Lord's 2009 was close. Chittagong in 2014 was a thrashing. For the second time in T20, Netherlands humbled England and this time there was daylight between the teams as they finished an embarrassing 45 runs short after a hapless chase.

It was nothing less than Netherland deserved. Bowled out for 39 three matches ago by Sri Lanka - which promoted the unsurprising response from some quarters questioning their presence in the tournament - they showed immense character and fortitude. They should have beaten South Africa, made New Zealand work hard for victory and have now humbled England.

It has, in many ways, been an extraordinary tournament for the Dutch: starting with the controversy of Tom Cooper's call-up to replace the injured Tim Gruijters to its joyous conclusion when James Tredwell and Stephen Parry were left stranded mid-pitch.

	You can all open your eyes now - Netherlands really did beat England © Getty Images  Enlarge

"When you win by 45 runs in a T20, it wasn't really close was it?" Peter Borren said, and that should not be taken as arrogance or disrespect: just fact. From the midway point of the match it was not close. England flayed like a village side who had struggled to rustle up XI players for a Sunday-morning match.

Asked to compare this victory to the one at Lord's in 2009, Borren's response was an indication of the belief the side has built up. "This one in a way is more satisfying because it's more of a build-up. We sort of went under the radar in 2009; they didn't know anything about us. This is more of a long-term thing. We just ambushed them in 2009; we won off the last ball. Tonight we won by 45 runs. The last one was just excitement, this one our guys really deserved it."

"In 2009 it was a big shock but if you look at all our cricket we played here I don't feel tonight feels like an upset. It was of course, but if you watched all our cricket then you would have thought we'd beat someone so it's not a big surprise."

One of the ongoing themes of this tournament - due to its structure and due to the recent changes at ICC - has been the place of Associates in world cricket. As Borren has said in victory and defeat, they have been here representing their brethren in the second phase following their stunning chase against Ireland.

England reach their Netherland

	Ashley Giles slinks away from another #pomnishambles for England © Getty Images  Enlarge
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After a winter of lows, England have reached their Netherland. Handed a generational thrashing in Australia, little was expected of the players selected to contest the World T20. Little is just what they delivered. The day after Ashley Giles had put forward his manifesto to become England's new head coach, the players he has coaxed and chivvied around the Caribbean and Bangladesh for the last six weeks put in a performance to suggest their bags had already been packed.

The mental baggage is likely to test the flight allowance. England have lost to Netherlands before, at the game's spiritual home, in the opening match of a major tournament. But defeat at the 2009 World T20 at least came down to the final ball. Here, the green shoots of a campaign that suggested tentative promise were mown down by a performance that resurrected and amplified the post-Ashes #pomnishambles jeers. Giles' chances of being ushered into power by the ECB as England's new head coach may have been damaged irrevocably.

Deprived of Joe Root and Ben Stokes by injury, not to mention the self-inflicted wound that is Kevin Pietersen's exclusion, England's batting during the tournament had provided surprising encouragement. They went into their final group game with an average and scoring rate higher than at any previous World T20; the lowest-ranked team left in the tournament exposed the lie to the damned statistics.

Alex Hales' century against Sri Lanka in a record run chase; Moeen Ali's delicate promise at No. 3; the return of Eoin Morgan to something like his best; Ravi Bopara's composure in the finishing role - England positives were taken away from them by a hot blast of Dutch courage. No one in the top seven managed to score at a run a ball, let alone stay at the crease for long, as Netherlands produced another diligent display and finally claimed the scalp they have craved ever since Peter Borren berated his team's poor form on the eve of the World T20.

England's final humiliation

	England's nightmare was full of jubilation in orange shirts © Getty Images  Enlarge
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Perhaps England's winter was always destined to end like this. After a pitiful collapse in the Ashes series in Australia and a motley collection of ODI defeats came the greatest ignominy of all: a failed challenge in World Twenty20 completed with an overwhelming defeat against Netherlands.

Make no mistake, this was a defeat entirely lacking in energy, nous and mental strength. England make a habit of losing to Netherlands, but surely none have been as bad as this.

Eighty-eight all out with only four boundaries and a 45-run defeat, monumental by Twenty20 terms, a shameful margin against an Associate nation which had to do little out of the ordinary to win the match and which now faces a lengthy absence from international cricket after failing to qualify for next year's 50-over World Cup in Australia.

And all ended with a ridiculous run out which would not have looked out of place in the lowest levels of village cricket.

For Ashley Giles, this truly dreadful defeat must have been more difficult to bear than for most. It is possible to advance a persuasive case that England need to plan for the long-term, that there will be blips along the way, and that Giles' temporary role as England's coach has never been about lodging a job application.

But can that still be insisted after the winter ended with one of the most humiliating episodes in their history?