I saw some highlights, very few of them yesterday, and I agree, it's fair to say that pitch isn't of a great deal of help to any kind of bowlers.

I don't however share the view that the match must have been boring watching live. Mahela Jayawerdene is an excellent player to watch on form, as are most Sri Lankans.

On the match as a whole, I kind off fancy a result here. NZ's recent history of second innings collapses (ok, I conceed against bowlers of much higher caliber) should if nothing more at least keep Sri Lanka interested.

I can so remember Pakistan winning out of similar no hope position last year, NZ had an even bigger lead back then, they were 200 odd head and 3 down, but Shoaib ran through them and we ended up winning by 3 or 4 wickets chasing about 250 odd. No one exacly like Shoaib in this Sri Lanka side, but that guy Malinga has some pace, and a somewhat awkward round arm action to contend with. If he or some one else can take a few quick wickets tomorrow, it might just send the pigoeons amongst the cats for NZ (or is that cat amongst the pigoens?). You never know, strange things can happen in test cricket at times. Never rule out anything.