Sri Lanka dominated the final day of its warm-up match against the Chairman's XI in Queenstown yesterday.
After a disappointing opening day that saw the tourists bowled out for just 173, Sri Lanka responded by dismissing the home side for a modest 125 and then posted 261 for eight declared in the second innings.
There was not enough time left for Sri Lanka to field again.
But several batsmen will feel good about their time in the middle before the Boxing Day test against New Zealand in Christchurch.
Star batsman Kumar Sangakkara missed out in his first dig but batted for more than an hour yesterday, scoring 29.
Dimuth Karunaratne retired on 52 and Niroshan Dickwella retired on 63, which he plundered from 51 balls.
Lahiru Thirimanne chipped in with 35 and Dinesh Chandimal was undefeated on 36.
Earlier, Northern Districts batsman Jono Hickey top-scored for the home side with 57 in what was otherwise a sorry innings.
Matt Taylor was the only other player to get past 10, adding 19 before he was caught.
Dushmantha Chameera and Tharindu Kaushal picked up three wickets apiece.
Kaikorai all-rounder Josh Finnie was one of the many locals who struggled to get going.
He made eight from 25 deliveries before he was caught behind.
• New Zealand Cricket experienced some technical problems on Sunday that meant the scoreboard contained some errors at end of play on day one.
The Chairman's XI was 37 for three at stumps, not 26 for three as reported, and Sri Lanka's Lahiru Thirimanne gained a run to move from 49 to 50.
Beaten women find positives
The Otago women's under-21 team lost all six matches at the national tournament in Lincoln during the past week.
Some of the margins of defeat were not too flattering, either.
But despite a disappointing week in terms of results, coach Warren Lees said there were some positives to emerge from the campaign.
Caitlin Blakely scored 89 in the opening one-dayer against Canterbury and did a good job captaining an inexperienced side.
Tayla MacDonald scored 57 and Ella Brown claimed four for 26 in a 51-run loss to Wellington.
Georgia Clarke had her moments with both ball and bat, and 15-year-old Bella James was productive with the bat and very tidy behind the stumps.
The closest Otago came to a win was the seven-run loss to Central Districts in a twenty20 match on Sunday.
Results aside, Lees said the team had shown huge improvement from the beginning of the tournament and showed signs of moving closer to posting a victory.
''We've lost every game for the last five years, so it was no different,'' Lees said.
''But our highest score last year was 106 in the whole tournament. This year, every single innings, except the last one, we scored a lot more than 106.
''In every innings, we had two or three players who really showed that we were the equal of the other team. But we don't have the depth, and when we lost two or three wickets, we started to struggle.''
Lees said his side's fielding was the equal of its opponents' but four of his players had never played a 50-over game before the tournament and just had not had enough cricket.
''Some of the girls had only had two games on artificials for the whole season, so that makes it pretty hard.
''My biggest challenge is to get them together again before the end of the season so we can make plans for the winter. Otherwise, we won't make progress.''
