Twitter Critical of Sri Lanka After Embarrassing Loss Against NZ

Sri Lanka registered one of their worst losses in World Cup history as they went down against New Zealand in Cardiff on Saturday, 1 June.

Put into bat first, the Lankans were first skittled out for just 136 and then to embarrass them further the Kiwis got to the target with all 10 wickets in hand inside 16.1 overs.

Kiwi openers Martin Guptill (73) and Colin Munro (58) came into bat with an attacking approach and took it to the Sri Lankan bowlers who hardly had any runs to play with.

Earlier in the day, Matt Henry bowled a spectacular spell taking 3 for 29 to break the backbone of the Lankan batting line-up. He was backed up well by Lockie Ferguson and other bowlers as all of them were in the wickets.

Sri Lankan skipper Dimuth Karunaratne scored an unbeaten 52 off 84 balls as he ran out of partners at the other end.

Twitter wasn’t happy with the way Lankans meekly surrendered to the Kiwis. Here’s what they said on the match.

Someone needs to wake up the #CWC19. Three lopsided games to begin with. #NZvSL

— Aakash Chopra (@cricketaakash) June 1, 2019

Sri Lanka will be, should be, very disappointed with this display. So who is going to lift them from here?

— Harsha Bhogle (@bhogleharsha) June 1, 2019

New Zealand not putting a foot wrong today , SL not just up to the mark today.
So three one- sided matches to begin the tournament. Need some close matches #NZvSL

— Mohammad Kaif (@MohammadKaif) June 1, 2019

NZ showing their class. And this Sri Lanka is a pale shadow of the team that Sanga and Mahela played for. This is a very low key side and it was evident today.

— Boria Majumdar (@BoriaMajumdar) June 1, 2019

Afghanistan playing much better than Pakistan and Sri lanka that too against a better bowling unit.... #AfgvAus pic.twitter.com/6zo8dCVBWg

— Hassan (@madscientistyes) June 1, 2019

Sides winning by 10 wickets in #CWC - today was 12th time #SLvNZ #NZvSL
Most times
3 by New Zealand
2 by Sri Lanka/West Indies/South Africa
1 by India/Australia/Pakistan#CWC19#CWC2019

— Mohandas Menon (@mohanstatsman) June 1, 2019

What's the procedure to request Mahela Jay and Kumar Sanga to come out of retirement and play a few games for #SL this #CWC19 ?#NZvSL

— Swetha Harini (@Swez_S) June 1, 2019

Well played Sri Lanka! Thanks for saving 3 hours. This match will get over under 5 hours which is brilliant. Overall 3 hour will be saved.

Time has come to fix 50 over format and it should get reduced to 30 overs ODI. #NZvSL

— irfan (@simplyirfan) June 1, 2019