The Sri Lanka cricket team toured New Zealand from December 2018 to January 2019 to play two Tests, three One Day Internationals (ODIs) and one Twenty20 International (T20I) match. They also played a three-day warm-up match ahead of the Test series.
Sri Lanka Cricket recalled batsmen Lahiru Thirimanne and Sadeera Samarawickrama after a year out of the Sri Lankan team. Bowler Nuwan Pradeep was also recalled to the team after previously being ruled out through injury.
New Zealand won the Test series 1–0, after the first match was drawn. It was their fourth consecutive series win, the first time they had achieved that in Test cricket. New Zealand won the ODI series 3–0. New Zealand scored the most runs by a team in a three-match bilateral ODI series. New Zealand's series aggregate of 1,054 runs are the most for any team in a three-match ODI series. They surpassed India's total of 1,053 runs in their home series against England in 2017. New Zealand also went on to win the one-off T20I match by 35 runs.
Squads TestsODIsT20I Kane Williamson (c) Trent Boult Colin de Grandhomme Matt Henry Tom Latham Henry Nicholls Ajaz Patel Jeet Raval Tim Southee Ross Taylor Neil Wagner BJ Watling (wk) Will Young Dinesh Chandimal (c) Dimuth Karunaratne (vc) Dushmantha Chameera Niroshan Dickwella (wk) Danushka Gunathilaka Lahiru Kumara Suranga Lakmal Angelo Mathews Kusal Mendis Dilruwan Perera Nuwan Pradeep Kasun Rajitha Sadeera Samarawickrama Lakshan Sandakan Dhananjaya de Silva Roshen Silva Lahiru Thirimanne Kane Williamson (c) Trent Boult Doug Bracewell Lockie Ferguson Martin Guptill Matt Henry Colin Munro James Neesham Henry Nicholls Tim Seifert (wk) Ish Sodhi Tim Southee Ross Taylor Lasith Malinga (c) Dushmantha Chameera Dinesh Chandimal Niroshan Dickwella (wk) Asela Gunaratne Danushka Gunathilaka Lahiru Kumara Angelo Mathews Kusal Mendis Kusal Perera Thisara Perera Nuwan Pradeep Seekkuge Prasanna Kasun Rajitha Sadeera Samarawickrama Lakshan Sandakan Dasun Shanaka Dhananjaya de Silva Tim Southee (c) Doug Bracewell Lockie Ferguson Martin Guptill Scott Kuggeleijn Colin Munro James Neesham Henry Nicholls Glenn Phillips Seth Rance Mitchell Santner Tim Seifert (wk) Ish Sodhi Ross Taylor Lasith Malinga (c) Dushmantha Chameera Dinesh Chandimal Niroshan Dickwella (wk) Asela Gunaratne Danushka Gunathilaka Lahiru Kumara Angelo Mathews Kusal Mendis Kusal Perera Thisara Perera Nuwan Pradeep Seekkuge Prasanna Kasun Rajitha Sadeera Samarawickrama Lakshan Sandakan Dasun Shanaka Dhananjaya de Silva
Angelo Mathews suffered an injury during the second Test and was later ruled out of Sri Lanka's squads for the limited overs fixtures, with Sadeera Samarawickrama replacing him. James Neesham suffered an injury during the third ODI and was replaced by Doug Bracewell in New Zealand's squad for the one-off T20I match.
Tour match Three-day match: New Zealand XI vs Sri Lanka
Test series 1st Test
2nd Test
ODI series 1st ODI
2nd ODI
3rd ODI
T20I match Only T20I
References
External links Series home at ESPN Cricinfo