but the Black Caps kept chipping away and the earlier wayward Mills
        ending up playing a great role in the middle and death overs to up
        the pressure
       this is the second game in two days here which has been won by a
        margin of fewer than 13 runs, despite two pretty mediocre scores
        being posted - a testament to the terrible batting conditions in
        Dambulla
       if it's not seaming about and bouncing early on, it's gripping and
        turning sharply for the rest of the innings, giving batting sides
        very little opportunity to gain any sort of momentum if the
        bowling is on the spot
       we've still had just the one individual half century in this
        tournament, and that was in game one - and took well over 100
        balls to get, too! no batsman is even close to threatening 100
        runs for the whole tournament yet
       and no team has managed to post 200, either, with only Pakistan
        coming close with 199 in the first match - it's a bowler's
        tournament and none moreso than Muttiah Muralitharan, who now has
        13 wickets in 4 matches here
       we apologise profusely for the delay in coverage, it was a
        technical matter out of our control - trust a core Internet router
        to go down with one over to go in a thrilling ODI! there's a Mr
        Murphy out there somewhere chuckling right now, we're sure
       Daniel Vettori has been named Man of the Match, predictably, a
        wonderful effort that has fired New Zealand to a rare appearance
        in a one-day tri-series final, in recent times at least, and doing
        it with a game in hand, no less, though they will be the
       first to admit that their cricket is far from perfect at present,
        having done well to win two from three through a combination of
        grit, determination, nous and a bit of never-say-die spirit
       they have never won a tri-series of any description before, having
        played in upwards of three dozen such tournaments, and appeared in
        about a dozen finals without success - their only multi-team
        tournament success coming in the 11-team ICC KnockOut in
       Kenya in 2000/01
       that wraps up our coverage for the match, please join us again
        tomorrow at 10am local time (0400 GMT) for New Zealand v Pakistan,
        until then it's goodbye from Wisden CricInfo
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