{"id":803967,"date":"2024-09-18T22:32:03","date_gmt":"2024-09-18T17:02:03","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/technosports.co.in\/?p=803967"},"modified":"2024-09-18T22:32:08","modified_gmt":"2024-09-18T17:02:08","slug":"sri-lanka-vs-new-zealand-first-test","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/technosports.co.in\/sri-lanka-vs-new-zealand-first-test\/","title":{"rendered":"Sri Lanka vs New Zealand, First Test in Galle: Kamindu Mendis Shines with Century on Day One"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"has-text-align-center\"><strong>Sri Lanka vs New Zealand First Test Results &#8211; All You Need to Know<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/technosports.co.in\/tag\/sri-lanka\/\">Sri Lanka<\/a> ended day one of the first Test in Galle at<strong> 302-7<\/strong>, thanks to a stellar performance from Kamindu Mendis, who continued his impressive start to Test cricket by scoring his fourth century. The 25-year-old left-hander, fresh off strong performances against England, <strong>scored 114 from 171 balls<\/strong>, leading Sri Lanka&#8217;s recovery after early setbacks.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-embed is-type-rich is-provider-twitter wp-block-embed-twitter\"><div class=\"wp-block-embed__wrapper\">\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"550\" data-dnt=\"true\"><p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">Kamindu Mendis&#39; hundred takes Sri Lanka to a dominant position at stumps on day one \ud83d\ude4c<a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/hashtag\/WTC25?src=hash&amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" rel=\"noopener\">#WTC25<\/a> | <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/hashtag\/SLvNZ?src=hash&amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" rel=\"noopener\">#SLvNZ<\/a>: <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/beiqHh7FNd\">https:\/\/t.co\/beiqHh7FNd<\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/0N8TYBAmKc\">pic.twitter.com\/0N8TYBAmKc<\/a><\/p>&mdash; ICC (@ICC) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/ICC\/status\/1836376674025279935?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" rel=\"noopener\">September 18, 2024<\/a><\/blockquote><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script>\n<\/div><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\">Kamindu Mendis Shines with Century on Day One: Sri Lanka vs New Zealand, First Test in Galle<\/h2>\n\n\n\n<p>With this knock, Kamindu now boasts an <strong>average of 80.90<\/strong>, second only to the legendary Sir Don Bradman&#8217;s iconic mark of 99.94 among batters with at least 10 innings. A score of 50 or more in the second innings would place Kamindu alongside Sunil Gavaskar for the most 50+ scores (nine) in the first seven Tests.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-embed is-type-rich is-provider-twitter wp-block-embed-twitter\"><div class=\"wp-block-embed__wrapper\">\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"550\" data-dnt=\"true\"><p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">Kamindu Mendis continues his excellent form with a fourth hundred in just his seventh Test \ud83e\udd29<a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/hashtag\/SLvNZ?src=hash&amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" rel=\"noopener\">#SLvNZ<\/a> | <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/hashtag\/WTC25?src=hash&amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" rel=\"noopener\">#WTC25<\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/jgwBqSTccL\">pic.twitter.com\/jgwBqSTccL<\/a><\/p>&mdash; ICC (@ICC) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/ICC\/status\/1836358266269454485?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" rel=\"noopener\">September 18, 2024<\/a><\/blockquote><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script>\n<\/div><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>After coming in at 69-2 when <a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Angelo_Mathews\" rel=\"noopener\">Angelo Mathews <\/a>retired hurt, Kamindu built crucial partnerships, including a 72-run stand with the returning Mathews and 103 with Kusal Mendis, who added 50 runs. Kamindu was eventually dismissed in the day\u2019s penultimate over, caught off Ajaz Patel.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Kamindu&#8217;s recent form has been exceptional, with centuries and big scores against Bangladesh and England, marking him as a rising star in the cricket world.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Sri Lanka vs New Zealand First Test Results &#8211; All You Need to Know Sri Lanka ended day one of the first Test in Galle at 302-7, thanks to a stellar performance from Kamindu Mendis, who continued his impressive start to Test cricket by scoring his fourth century. The 25-year-old left-hander, fresh off strong performances [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2844,"featured_media":803969,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7634,10],"tags":[456371,712,445641,21604],"class_list":{"0":"post-803967","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-cricket","8":"category-sports","9":"tag-kamindu-mendis","10":"tag-new-zealand","11":"tag-new-zealand-vs-sri-lanka","12":"tag-sri-lanka"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/technosports.co.in\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/803967","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/technosports.co.in\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/technosports.co.in\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/technosports.co.in\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2844"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/technosports.co.in\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=803967"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/technosports.co.in\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/803967\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/technosports.co.in\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/803969"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/technosports.co.in\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=803967"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/technosports.co.in\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=803967"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/technosports.co.in\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=803967"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}