A game-changing captain's knock from Mitch Santner and brilliant bowling from Matt Henry and Rachin Ravindra have underpinned a typically professional triumph for New Zealand that sent Sri Lanka tumbling out of their own T20 World Cup.
Against the co-hosts who had outplayed Australia by eight wickets last week, New Zealand silenced the home crowd as they proved completely dominant in a 61-run victory at the Premadasa Stadium in Colombo on Wednesday.
It's a convincing win that's put the Black Caps in the driving seat to earn a semi-final spot but it was a victory that certainly hadn't looked likely when New Zealand were limping at 6-98 with four overs remaining after they'd been asked to bat by the home skipper Dasun Shanaka.
