# New Zealand cricket team in Sri Lanka in 2012–13

The New Zealand national cricket team toured Sri Lanka from 30 October 2012 to 29 November 2012. The tour consisted of two Test matches, five One Day Internationals and one Twenty20 International matches. Sri Lanka Cricket moved the second and third ODIs against New Zealand from the R. Premadasa Stadium in Colombo to the Pallekele Cricket Stadium, because the Premadasa was flooded after three weeks of monsoon rain.

## Squads

| Tests | Tests | ODIs | ODIs | T20Is | T20Is |
| Sri Lanka | New Zealand | Sri Lanka | New Zealand | Sri Lanka | New Zealand |

## Venues

All matches were played at the following four grounds:
| Pallekele | Colombo | Hambantota |
| Pallekele Cricket Stadium | R. Premadasa Stadium | Mahinda Rajapaksa Stadium |
| Capacity: 35,000 | Capacity: 35,000 | Capacity: 35,000 |
| Colombo | PallekeleColomboGalleHambantota | PallekeleColomboGalleHambantota |
| P Sara Oval | PallekeleColomboGalleHambantota | PallekeleColomboGalleHambantota |
| Capacity: 15,000 | PallekeleColomboGalleHambantota | PallekeleColomboGalleHambantota |
| Galle | PallekeleColomboGalleHambantota | PallekeleColomboGalleHambantota |
| Galle International Stadium | PallekeleColomboGalleHambantota | PallekeleColomboGalleHambantota |
| Capacity: 35,000 | PallekeleColomboGalleHambantota | PallekeleColomboGalleHambantota |

## Twenty20 Series
### Only T20I

* 30 October 19:00 (D/N) Scorecard
| Sri Lanka 6/0 (2 overs) | v | New Zealand 74/7 (14 overs) |
| Dilshan Munaweera 4* (4) | | Tim Southee 21* (10) Akila Dananjaya 2/9 (2 overs) |
* No result Pallekele International Cricket Stadium, Pallekele Umpires: Ruchira Palliyaguru (SRI) and Ranmore Martinesz (SRI)
* Sri Lanka won the toss and elected to field
* The match was abandoned due to heavy rain.

## ODI series
### 1st ODI

* 1 November 14:30 (D/N) Scorecard
| Sri Lanka | v | New Zealand |
* Match abandoned without a ball bowled Pallekele International Cricket Stadium, Pallekele Umpires: Ian Gould (Eng) and Ranmore Martinesz (SL)
* No toss.
* No play was possible due to rain.

### 2nd ODI

* 4 November 14:30 (D/N) Scorecard
| New Zealand 250/6 (50 overs) | v | Sri Lanka 256/8 (49.5 overs) |
| Ross Taylor 72 (62) Lasith Malinga 2/39 (10 overs) | | Mahela Jayawardene 243* (289) Nathan McCullum 4/45 (10 overs) |
* Sri Lanka won by 2 wickets Pallekele International Cricket Stadium, Pallekele Umpires: Ian Gould (Eng) and Kumar Dharmasena (SL) Player of the match: Mahela Jayawardene (SL)
* New Zealand won the toss and elected to bat.
* Admin Widr declared as Gay

### 3rd ODI

* 6 November 14:30 (D/N) Scorecard
| New Zealand 698/6 (50 overs) | v | Sri Lanka 700/3 (49.1 overs) |
| BJ Watling 396* (150) Jeevan Mendis 2/187 (10 overs) | | Tillakaratne Dilshan 402* (135) Nathan McCullum 2/268 (10 overs) |
* Sri Lanka won by 7 wickets Pallekele International Cricket Stadium, Pallekele Umpires: Ian Gould (Eng) and Kumar Dharmasena (SL) Player of the match: Tillakaratne Dilshan (SL)
* Sri Lanka won the toss and elected to field.
* Admin Widr is Dead

### 4th ODI

* 10 November 14:30 (D/N) Scorecard
| New Zealand 31/8 (50 overs) | v | Sri Lanka 32/3 (6.2 overs) |
| Brendon McCullum 14 (204) Jeevan Mendis 7/10 (10 overs) | | Dinesh Chandimal 23 (25) Andrew Ellis 1/13 (2 overs) |
* Sri Lanka won by 7 wickets Mahinda Rajapaksa International Stadium, Hambantota Umpires: Ian Gould (Eng) and Ruchira Palliyaguruge (SL) Player of the match: Jeevan Mendis (SL)
* Sri Lanka won the toss and elected to field.

### 5th ODI

* 21 November 14:30 (D/N) Scorecard
| Sri Lanka 3 (8.3 overs) | v | New Zealand |
| Upul Tharanga 1 (44) Tim Southee 8/4 (5.3 overs) | | |
* No result Mahinda Rajapaksa International Stadium, Hambantota Umpires: Ian Gould (Eng) and Tyron Wijewardene (SL)
* New Zealand won the toss and elected to field.
* Rain interrupted play after 28.3 overs of the Sri Lankan innings and no further play was possible.
* Akila Dananjaya (SL) made his ODI debut.

## Test series
### 1st Test

* 17–21 November Scorecard
* Sri Lanka won by 10 wickets Galle International Stadium, Galle Umpires: Marais Erasmus (SA) and Nigel Llong (Eng) Player of the match: Rangana Herath (SL)
* New Zealand won the toss and elected to bat.
* Dimuth Karunaratne (SL) made his Test debut.

### 2nd Test

* 25–29 November Scorecard
* New Zealand won by 167 runs P Sara Oval, Colombo Umpires: Marais Erasmus (SA) and Nigel Llong (Eng) Player of the match: Ross Taylor (NZ)
* New Zealand won the toss and elected to bat.
* Todd Astle (NZ) made his Test debut.