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Happy ending for Kiwis

SL suffer big 4th day defeat

AFP, Wellington
New Zealand ended a miserable 12 months of Test cricket when they comprehensively outplayed Sri Lanka to win the second Test by an innings and 38 runs inside four days here Thursday and take the series 1-0. The win was set up by the magnificent 224 from Lou Vincent which carried New Zealand to a 311-run lead on the first innings and virtually put Sri Lanka out of the game.
In the chase to keep the Test alive, Tillakaratne Dilshan topscored with a valiant 73 but the resistance ended with his dismissal and the first innings deficit proved to big a hurdle to overcome
The win ended a dismal run for New Zealand who have lost eight Tests -- to South Africa, England and Australia -- since March last year.
"We knew we had one chance towards the end of the summer to give the summer a bit of perspective and I think we've done that," jubilant captain Stephen Fleming said.
"Players like Lou Vincent, who was threatening right from the first game gave a performance like this when we really needed it to give the season perspective and came
through."
Left-armer James Franklin led the second innings bowling attack with four wickets while Nathan Astle chipped in with three including the key scalp of Dilshan.
It was always going to be a difficult Test for the team batting second to win, but when Sri Lanka started the fourth day at one wicket for 10 they still harboured hopes of saving the match.
The air of confidence remained at lunch, despite losing skipper Marvan Atapattu and night watchman Farveez Maharoof and being 106 for three, but ebbed out of the innings in the middle session when they lost four wickets for 81 runs.
Franklin found a line and rhythm
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that was missing from his armoury in the first innings and struck in the 11th over of the day getting Atapattu to edge the ball straight to Stephen Fleming at first slip.
He bagged Mahela Jayawardene and Kumar Sangakkara after lunch to have Sri Lanka's top order back in the pavillion, and wrapped up the game with the wicket of Chaminda Vaas for 38 to have figures of four for 71 of 24 overs.
BRIEF SCORES
SRI LANKA: First innings 211 (Samaraweera 73, Chandana 41; Martin 6-54, Astle 3-35) and second innings 273 all out (Maharoof 36, Sangakkara 45, Dilshan 73, Vaas 38; Astle 3-27, Franklin 4-71).
NEW ZEALAND: First innings 522 (Vincent 224, Fleming 88, Cumming 47; Vaas 6-108, Malinga 2-124).
Result: New Zealand won by an innings and 38 runs.
Man-of-the-match: Lou Vincent. Series: New Zealand 1-0.