The New Zealand team, which is playing the first innings of the first Test between Sri Lanka and New Zealand in Christchurch, has scored 162 runs for 5 wickets at the end of the second day.
In the first innings, the Sri Lankan team scored 355 runs all out and the New Zealand team is 193 runs behind the Sri Lankan team with 5 wickets remaining.
Kusal Mendis 87(83), Dimuth Karunaratne 50(87), Angelo Mathews 47(98) and Dhananjaya de Silva 46(59) showed outstanding performances for Sri Lanka. Tim Southee contributed 64/5 to restrict Sri Lanka to 355.
Asitha Fernando and Lahiru Kumara took 2 wickets each for Sri Lanka.
Sri Lanka 355
New Zealand 162/5
