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New Zealand v Sri Lanka, World Cup 2011, Mumbai

Muttiah Muralitharan takes off after catching Scott Styris, New Zealand v Sri Lanka, Group A, World Cup 2011, Mumbai, March 18, 2011

Muttiah Muralitharan took four wickets in Sri Lanka's easy victory  •  Getty Images

23.2 NL McCullum to Jayawardene, no run, Great catch or may be not What a stunner! Nathan mcCullum has gone flying! It stopped a touch on Mahela who ended up chipping his defensive shot well to the right of the bowler. Nathan took couple of steps to his right and flew. The ball was dying on him when he got his palms under it. Mahela is not convinced it was taken cleanly. The third ump has been called. He caught in between his forefinger and middle-finger i reckon. What an amazing effort. He ended up at short mid-on region! Third ump says it might have touched the ground. Oh dear. I am not sure it did. Nathan is upset, he has a talk with the umpire. Ross Taylor gets in as well. It's a cruel batsman's game; the benefit of doubt always goes to him.
38.5 Southee to Sangakkara, FOUR, Oh whadddaplayaaa! Talk about creating room. It was the bouncer from round the stumps, aiming for his body. Sanga back-pedals towards leg, gets away from the line of fire and upper cut it over backward point. Great improvisation.
39.2 Oram to Sangakkara, 1 run, That's his hundred. He turns a slower one to fine-leg and raises his arms aloft as he crosses over. The crowd applaud and so do his team-mates from the dressing room. Sanga last hit a ton in June 2008. 63 innings without a hundred.
49.3 Oram to Mathews, FOUR, moves outside the leg stump, crouches to pick a delivery short of the blockhole and drags it to midwicket boundary. Kane throws in a desperate dive but can't stop it.
6.2 Mathews to BB McCullum, OUT, Aha, Mahela takes a low catch it seems. Baz is not leaving! The third umpire has to check. First things first. An absolute peach of a legcutter from mathews, he lands this outside off and gets it to jag away off the seam. Baz was advancing into the steer, then saw it go away and tried to pull away, but the momentum was too far into the shot. It takes the edge even as he opens the face and dies away to the right of a diving Mahela ... who has taken it cleanly. The McCullums 0 - Mahela 2. What a ball, from Mathews, seam pointing away and the ball just follows suit after landing. This man's a superstar allrounder.
21.1 Muralitharan to Taylor, OUT, Murali is eating away at the NZ line up. Given lbw, but Taylor has refered it. Looked plumb. Did it land outside leg? The mat is awaited. Offie lands around leg stump, the mat is in, and the ball lands just inside the mat and the offie straightens enough to hit middle. Taylor was prodding forward, but he wasn't 2.5 m ahead. Gone. Murali on two legs is lethal. Murali, one on leg with a strained hammie seems to be even more lethal.