Styris' valiant resistance comes to an end, a great knock, remarkably with twice as many sixes as fours in it, the highest innings by a New Zealander in over 20 years, and the highest by a New Zealander against Sri Lanka (beating Glenn Turner's 140 at Auckland in 1982/83, but with no support whatsoever, it's nowhere near enough to cement victory for the New Zealanders, Sri Lanka running out convincing 47-run victors

Arnold picks up the last 3 wickets of the innings at a bit of a cost, but it was all really quite academic with a skyrocketing run rate required

Styris' 141 is in fact the 7th highest individual score in a losing effort, and the highest such instance for New Zealand (beating Chris Harris' 130 in the World Cup 1996 quater-final loss to Australia)

It'll be a case of what might've been for the New Zealanders, with the second highest scorer a remarkable 109 runs behind Styris, his innings taking up 63% of the team score, and over 67% of the runs made off the bat

It was a good even bowling effort from the Sri Lankans, with pretty much everyone contributing to the effort, Vaas put on the early pressure which resulted in the crazy run out of Astle, and then Gunaratne sent Fleming and McMillan on their way quickly thereafter, meaning New Zealand were always going to be playing catch-up cricket from that point onwards

There were glimmers of hope when Styris and Cairns rebuilt, then latter when Harris hung around for a while, but the spin attack kept persisting and eventually broke through and the lower order didn't resist much further

Sanath Jayasuriya is named man of the match for his swashbuckling knock of 120

Sri Lanka take the four points, and a big step towards the Super Six stage, even after just one match, with New Zealand under extreme pressure to topple first-up winners the West Indies, and home side South Africa in their next two matches to keep their hopes alive, thanks to their like forfeiture of points to Kenya over their refusal to play in Nairobi

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