HERATH’S MAGIC SPELL
2014: Sri Lanka v New Zealand, Chattogram
Rangana Herath had a hand in the seven dismissals out of nine (an injured Corey Anderson did not bat). Sri Lanka had just 119 to defend, 18 of which had already been knocked off when he came on in the fourth over. Off his first ball, Martin Guptill was runout, his swift throw back to wicketkeeper Kumar Sangakkara doing the trick. The duo combined again for the last ball of the over, Sangakkara whipping the bails, off one that turned away from Brendon Mccullum. The left-arm spinner took wickets off the last two balls of his second over, at the end of which his figures read 2-2-0-3. He finished with 3.3-2-5-3, leading Lanka, the eventual champion, to a 59-run win.