The Black Caps have wrapped a third consecutive Test win with a dominant victory over Sri Lanka in tough conditions in Wellington.<\/p>\n
New Zealand won by an innings and 58 runs with a day to spare in their final home Test of the summer to claim the series against Sri Lanka 2-0.<\/p>\n
The Black Caps posted 580-4 declared in their first innings to give Sri Lanka a mammoth task to chase down the total in windy conditions.<\/p>\n
Sri Lanka were on the back foot heading into day four, following on they needed to add 303 runs to their overnight total with eight wickets in hand to force the home side to bat again at the Basin Reserve.<\/p>\n
While New Zealand eventually prevailed it took 142 overs to dismiss Sri Lanka for a second time as the visitors made the Black Caps bowlers work hard for their wickets.<\/p>\n
New Zealand snared three wickets in the first session on Monday to have Sri Lanka 249-5 at lunch.<\/p>\n
Sri Lanka started the day at 113-2 and quickly lost Kusal Mendis (50) without adding to the overnight total while Angelo Mathews (2) followed shortly afterwards.<\/p>\n
Pace bowlers Matt Henry and Blair Tickner picked up those two wickets.<\/p>\n
But Dinesh Chandimal and Dhanajaya de Silva then built a stubborn fifth partnership of 126, only for Chandimal to be dismissed for 62 a few minutes before lunch when he top edged a short delivery from Tickner to be caught by a diving Doug Bracewell at fine leg.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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