Welcome to Dawn.com’s live coverage of the ICC Cricket World Cup where readers will for the very first time get the opportunity to commentate on the match in real time. Here’s your chance to provide your analysis, set the field, predict the outcome of the match and have your say as Sri Lanka take on New Zealand at R Premadasa Stadium, Colombo.

Toss: New Zealand won the toss and elected to bat

Teams:

New Zealand: BB McCullum, MJ Guptill, JD Ryder, LRPL Taylor, SB Styris, KS Williamson, NL McCullum, DL Vettori (Capt), JDP Oram, TG Southee, AJ McKay

Sri Lanka: WU Tharanga, TM Dilshan, KC Sangakkara (Capt), DPMD Jayawardene, TT Samaraweera, LPC Silva, AD Mathews, SL Malinga, HMRKB Herath, BAW Mendis, M Muralitharan

Umpires: Aleem Dar and SJ Davis

TV umpire: M Erasmus

Match referee: BC Broad