At the end of the second day, Sri Lanka led New Zealand by 135 runs on the first innings and on the third day morning, New Zealand began their second innings at 22/0 and lost five wickets at 159. With only 5 second innings wickets in hand, they had only a slender 24 run-lead over Sri Lanka. With two full days’ play left, Sri Lanka looked like taking the match and leveling the series. But what transpired afterwards was beyond the wildest imagination of cricket analysts. Kane Williamson