Seamer Nuwan Thushara picked up a wicket off the first ball of the game, and leggie Wanindu Hasaranga claimed three in his first two overs to send back the top half of the New Zealand batting with less than 50 runs on the board.

New Zealand paceman Lockie Ferguson has been ruled out of the one-day international series against Sri Lanka after suffering a calf strain in the second Twenty20 match against the South Asians. Ferguson was struck down with the injury soon after becoming his nation's sixth bowler to take a T20 hat-trick as New Zealand won by five runs in Dambulla on Sunday to split the series 1-1.

Ferguson picked up the injury during the T20I against Sri Lanka on Sunday in Dambulla, where he claimed a hat-trick

Lockie Ferguson returned from a hamstring injury for the limited-overs series but injured his calf in the second T20I where he took a hat-trick.

New Zealand suffer a huge blow ahead of their ODI series against hosts Sri Lanka, as Lockie Ferguson has been ruled out of the entire series due to injury. The hat-trick hero of the Kiwi's in the last T20I failed to bowl his full quota of overs,