New Zealand vs Sri Lanka, 1st ODI - Live Cricket Score, Commentary

That's all from the first ODI of the series folks. New Zealand were clinical across all departments and they deserve to go 1-0 up in the series. Will Sri Lanka manage to bounce back in the next game at Hamilton? Only time will tell. For now, this is Nikhil signing off on behalf of Anurag and Praveen. Ciao!

Mitchell Santner: Credit to the boys upfront. They picked wickets and were patient. All the four seamers did a good job, switching ends. It was pretty cold. You can be aggressive, and you can do a holding job. It was very pleasing as collective. It's an important series for us, we want to put up a good show for the crowd. Hamilton is going to be a different challenge, the wicket is going to be different. It's amazing to play in front of such crowd.

Charith Asalanka: We knew that it was going to be hard as it was too windy. As professionals you need to play in any kind of conditions. Batting made it difficult for us and put us in this situation. I want to mention about their bowling, they bowled nicely in the powerplay. It was hard to come back after losing four wickets. We didn't have enough runs at the end of the innings. We have to recollect ourselves. Need to turn the bad habits into good habits going forward.

Matt Henry, Player of the Match: Change of formats, getting back to ODI format, guys were excited. Great to get the series underway. We were trying to take it from both ends, taking wickets is important in this format. It is tough. Good thing of playing at home is adapting. Guys were clear on how they wanted to operate. You always try to grow your game. You need to understand the job you need to do at home. It's going to be a big challenge at Hamilton.

17:08 Local Time, 04:08 GMT, 09:38 IST: A comfortable victory for NZ as they win by 9 wickets and go 1-0 up in the 3-match ODI series. Earlier in the day, NZ elected to bowl first on a greenish surface and their bowlers did an excellent job by taking early wickets in the powerplay. The Sri Lankans were put on the back foot pretty early in the match itself, and they couldn't recover from those early blows. The visitors somehow managed to crawl their way to 178, but it was never going to challenge the Blackcaps. In reply, Young and Ravindra got the hosts off to a good start with a 93-run stand for the opening wicket. Ravindra missed out on his fifty, but Young notched up his half-century and kept the run chase under control in the company of Mark Chapman. New Zealand eventually completed the run chase in the 27th over and made it look effortless. Stay around for the presentations..

Wickramasinghe to Will Young, FOUR, Will Young hits the winning runs! A short ball by Wickramasinghe and the batsman pulls it through the on-side and remains unbeaten on 90

Wickramasinghe to Will Young, 2 runs, banged in short by Wickramasinghe as the batsman pulls it to wide mid-on for a couple of runs

Chamindu Wickramasinghe [3.0-0-22-1] is back into the attack

Equation: 5 runs required in 24 overs. Probably the last over of the match coming up..

Hasaranga to Chapman, no run, googly outside off, Chapman steers it to short third man with soft hands

Hasaranga to Will Young, 1 run, way too full on middle and leg, Will Young squeezes it to mid-wicket for a single

Hasaranga to Will Young, FOUR, gets down on his knee and sweeps the tossed up delivery past the fielder at short fine leg. In fact he slipped a touch, but somehow managed to connect

Hasaranga to Will Young, no run, attempts a sweep, gets hit on the pads

Hasaranga to Will Young, no run, floated on off, Will Young knocks it to cover

Hasaranga to Will Young, no run, nudged to mid-wicket by Young

Lahiru Kumara to Will Young, 1 run, steered to third man by Will Young for a single

Lahiru Kumara to Will Young, wide, banged in short by Lahiru Kumara as the ball sails over the batsman's head

Lahiru Kumara to Chapman, 1 run, goes for a pull against this short ball, gets a single through backward square leg

Lahiru Kumara to Will Young, 1 run, in the air, but safe! On the shorter side, Will Young goes for a pull and the top edge falls short of the fielder at fine leg

Lahiru Kumara to Will Young, no run, tad fuller on off, knocked to cover by the batsman