Sri Lanka lead New Zealand by 132 runs with six second-innings wickets in hand at lunch on the fourth day of the primary Test in Christchurch.
At the break Sri Lanka have been 4-150 with Angelo Mathews 54 not out and Dinesh Chandimal 27.
Sri Lanka started Sunday at 3-83, after New Zealand had taken an 18-run lead on the primary innings following an inconceivable comeback led by century-maker Daryl Mitchell.
Seamer Blair Tickner continued New Zealand’s rally by taking three wickets earlier than stumps on Saturday, with openers Oshada Fernando and Dimuth Karunaratne and first drop Kusal Mendis all dismissed cheaply.
Tickner claimed his fourth wicket when nightwatchman Prabath Jayasuriya was out early on the fourth day.
He dangled his bat at a ball from Tickner which was brief and broad of off stump and was caught by wicketkeeper Tom Blundell off a skinny outdoors edge.
Mathews was joined by Chandimal and the pair labored collectively to barter greater than an hour till lunch.
Mathews added solely 34 to his in a single day rating however in doing so posted his thirty ninth half-century in Tests from 139 balls. His partnership with Chandimal was price 55 runs at lunch.
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