Daryl Mitchell scored 102 runs.

The first Test is being played between Sri Lanka and New Zealand in Christchurch. By the end of the third day’s play on Saturday, Sri Lanka have scored 83 runs for the loss of 3 wickets in the second innings. Whereas New Zealand made a comeback and scored 373 runs in the first innings. Earlier on the third day, New Zealand lost 5 wickets by adding 211 runs while playing ahead of 165 runs for 5 wickets in their first innings and scored 373 runs in the first innings. Daryl Mitchell played a century innings of 102 runs for New Zealand.

By the end of the third day’s play, Sri Lanka had taken a lead of 65 runs. Angelo Mathews 20 and Prabhat Jayasuriya are unbeaten on 2 runs. Blair Tickner took all three wickets of Sri Lanka.

Brilliant century by Daryl Mitchell
Daryl Mitchell scored 102, Matt Henry 72 and Tom Latham scored 67 for New Zealand. Apart from these, Devon Conway 30, Neil Wagner 27, Michael Bracewell and Tim Southee contributed 25-25 runs. For Sri Lanka, Asitha Fernando took 4 wickets and Lahiru Kumara took 3 wickets.

Sri Lanka’s first innings
Earlier, New Zealand won the toss and decided to field first. Batting first, Sri Lanka scored 355 runs in the first innings. For Sri Lanka, there was a century partnership between Kushal Mendis and Dimuth Karunaratne and a half-century partnership between Angelo Mathews-Dinesh Chandimal. Kusal Mendis top-scored for Sri Lanka with 87 runs. Apart from them, Dimuth Karunaratne 50, Angelo Mathews 47 and Dhananjay D’Silva played important innings of 46 runs.

It is necessary to clean sweep the series to stay in the WTC final
Sri Lanka will have to clean sweep the two-Test series against New Zealand to remain in the final of the World Test Championship. On the other hand, if India wins the fourth Test match starting with Australia in Ahmedabad from Thursday, then this series will not be affected. Sri Lanka will be out of contention for the World Test Championship final.

second day’s play
Sri Lanka started the second day ahead with a score of 305/6. The team was all out for 355 runs. By the end of the second day’s play on Friday, New Zealand scored 162 runs at the loss of 5 wickets. After the dismissals of Devon Conway and Kane Williamson, New Zealand were dismissed for 67 by Tom Latham and the team scored 162 runs.