T20 World Cup: Glenn Phillips hits superb ton as New Zealand crush Sri Lanka

Glenn Phillips smashed a sublime 104 from 64 balls to pb New Zealand to a crushing 65-run triumph implicit Sri Lanka successful the Men's T20 World Cup successful Sydney.

Phillips was dropped connected 12 and 45 arsenic Sri Lanka were made to rue a sloppy show successful the field.

Kiwi accelerated bowler Trent Boult past took 4-13 arsenic Sri Lanka slumped to 102 each retired successful the last over.

The triumph keeps unbeaten New Zealand comfortably apical of the Group 1 table, with Sri Lanka successful fifth.

Having won the flip and chosen to bat, New Zealand were rapidly successful occupation arsenic they mislaid some openers and their skipper Kane Williamson wrong the archetypal 4 overs.

But a fourth-wicket concern of 84 betwixt Phillips and Daryl Mitchell, who made 22, rebuilt the innings.

Phillips attacked from the outset contempt the aboriginal wickets, reaching his half-century from 39 balls earlier capitalising astatine the decease arsenic New Zealand scored 54 from the past 4 overs.

Phillips' period is the 2nd of the World Cup truthful acold aft Rilee Rossouw's 109 against Bangladesh connected Thursday.

Both teams play their adjacent fixtures connected Tuesday, with New Zealand taking connected England and Sri Lanka facing Afghanistan.

New Zealand volition suffice for the semi-finals by beating England, portion Sri Lanka person lone a slim accidental now, needing to triumph some remaining games and anticipation different results spell their way.

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Ruthless New Zealand punish sloppy Sri Lanka

Opening powerplay aside, it was a fantastic show from the Black Caps, who are establishing themselves arsenic imaginable favourites for the rubric aft demolishing past year's champions Australia successful their archetypal outing.

It started with Phillips' brutality and was wrapped up by the brilliance of Boult and Tim Southee.

Phillips, an unorthodox batter who scores each astir the ground, was assertive but astute - clearing the bound with easiness but besides moving good betwixt the wickets erstwhile Sri Lanka's fielding standards dropped.

Sri Lanka squandered their awesome start, often fumbling the shot and giving runs distant arsenic good arsenic the 2 dropped chances of Phillips.

The information that Mitchell's 22 was the second-highest people of the innings showed conscionable however ascendant Phillips was, with Williamson, Finn Allen, Devon Conway and Jimmy Neesham contributing conscionable 15 runs combined.

Boult and Southee past produced a formidable and relentless opening burst.

Southee took 1-12 and struck successful the archetypal over, removing Pathum Nissanka for a duck to headdress a hard time for the opener, who dropped a elemental accidental to region Phillips connected 12.

Boult past took 2 successful his archetypal implicit and the contention was fundamentally over.

Bhanuka Rajapaksa and skipper Dasun Shanaka were the lone batters to connection immoderate resistance, scoring 34 and 35 respectively.

There were 2 wickets apiece for spinners Ish Sodhi and Mitchell Santner and with Lockie Ferguson's gait to implicit the attack, New Zealand look fiercely determined to scope their 2nd successive World Cup final.

Even if New Zealand suffer to England, a triumph implicit Ireland successful their last crippled should beryllium capable to spot them done due to the fact that of their outstanding nett run-rate.