Sri Lanka vs New Zealand Semi Final match 2011, Live Score Card

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IN THE first semi final match of the year's biggest sports event, ICC Cricket World Cup 2011, New Zealand captain Daniel Vettori has won the toss and decided to bat first against Sri Lanka at the flat wicket of R. Premadasa Stadium, in Colombo this afternoon.
In the crucial match of the ICC Cricket World Cup 2011, New Zealand captain Daniel Vettori has made one change in the playing XI from the quarter final match against South Africa. He preferred seamer Andy McKay for Luke Woodcock in the final playing XI.
Sri Lankan captain Kumar Sangakkara has retained his line-up from the quarter final match against England.
In the semi final of 2007 ICC Cricket World Cup, the Lankans had set the target for Kiwis and won that match by 81 runs with the brilliant performance of Mahela Jayawardene and Muttiah Muralitharan. Sri Lanka has won their previous four World Cup games against New Zealand.
New Zealand, who is playing its sixth semi final of the Cricket World Cup 2011, has reached the semi finals of the Cricket World Cup on five occasions in 1975, 1979, 1992, 1999 and 2007, but never played even a single final of this mega cricketing event.
Sri Lanka has played semi finals in 1996, 2003, 2007, and final in two times in 1996 and 2007. In 1996, Sri Lanka won the Cricket World Cup trophy.
Here are the playing XI of Sri Lanka and New Zealand in the first semi final of the ICC Cricket World Cup 2011:
Sri Lanka: Tillakaratne Dilshan, Upul Tharanga, Kumar Sangakkara (capt/wk), Mahela Jayawardene, Thilan Samaraweera, Chamara Silva, Angelo Mathews, Rangana Herath, Lasith Malinga, Muttiah Muralitharan, Ajantha Mendis.
New Zealand: Brendon McCullum (wk), Martin Guptill, Jesse Ryder, Ross Taylor, Scott Styris, Kane Williamson, Nathan McCullum, Daniel Vettori (capt), Jacob Oram, Andy McKay,Tim Southee.

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