New Zealand are well in control on day 2 of the first test match against Sri Lanka

Top order of the New Zealand played well throughout the day

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In the first test match of the Sri Lanka tour of New Zealand, the tourist side was invited to bat first as Kane Williamson won the first  toss of the tour in Wellington. The young inexperienced Sri Lankan side lead by Dinesh Chandimal starts their batting against the attack of Boult and Southee. Sri Lanka batted well in their innings despite of losing early wickets in first hour of the match and managed to get 298 /10 in day 2. Southee continued to fire up and finished with 6 wickets in his 27 overs. Boult and Wagner bowled beautifully throughout the innings but only managed to took 1 and 2 wickets respectively.

For Lankan Karunaratne played well in top of Order to made 79 in partnership with Mathews who made 80 runs with patience. Wicket keeper batsman Dickwella well made 80 not out and played a mature innings with tail handlers.

If we talk about  New Zealand innings, there was nothing to talk about Sri Lankan bowlers. The black caps openers played well as their opener Latham is still playing on 121 in the end of day 2. But it's not about Latham only, each and every ones were playing well in the middle. Williamson was another star player as he made 91 with strike rate of almost 100 but unfortunately got out before getting his hundred. Ross Taylor also played well in day 2 and still remains unbeaten at the end of day 2, he played well as he made exactly 50 on the board at the end of the day. Sri Lankan bowlers can't do anything in that pitch although Dhananjay de Silva and Lahiru Kumara get one wicket each.

New Zealand were 311/2 at the end of the day 2 in Wellington and both the set batsman Taylor and Latham looks good in the middle.