Following are the statistical highlights of the group C match between Sri Lanka and New Zealand at the Wanderers in Johannesburg on Saturday.
# Sri Lanka registered their fourth win in five Twenty20 matches. Sri Lanka have won two out of three played against New Zealand. Sri Lanka's only defeat in Twenty20 Internationals came against New Zealand by 5 wickets at Auckland in December 2006.
# Sri Lanka's 168 for three is their highest score against New Zealand, obliterating their 115 at Auckland in December last year.
# New Zealand's 164 for 7 is their highest against Sri Lanka, bettering their 162 for 8 at Wellington in December 2006.
# Ross Taylor's 62 off 42 balls is his first half-century. His innings is now the second best for New Zealand, next only to Scott Styris, who hit 66 off 39 balls against Australia at Auckland in February 2005.
# When his score reached 20, Sanath Jayasuriya became the first Sri Lankan batsman to aggregate 200 runs in Twenty20 Internationals.
# Jayasuriya's run-aggregate of 241 in four innings at an average of 80.33 is now the second best in Twenty20 Internationals, next only to South Africa captain Graeme Smith, who has aggregated 287 at an average of 71.75 in six innings.
# Jayasuriya, with his innings of 61 off 44 balls on Saturday, is now the first ever batsman to have recorded three fifty-plus scores in succession in Twenty20 Internationals. Smith was the first to post three fifty-plus innings but not in succession.
# The 82-run partnership between Jayasuriya and Upul Tharanga is Sri Lanka's best for the first wicket, eclipsing their own stand of 75 against England at Rose Bowl in 2006.
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