As expected Kane Williamson and BJ Watling chased down the remaining 40-odd runs this morning, thus giving the BLACKCAPS another Test win and a 2-0 series win. There'll be a series debrief in a few days , until then get ya fix...

Test wins and series wins - as is always the case - should be celebrated, series victories should be celebrated in excessive fashion. I liked what Sri Lanka offered and it's important to note that this Sri Lanka team were good, especially when you consider that they are walking down a new path, without the guidance of two greats. This is a young Sri Lankan side who, while they have come to Aotearoa a lot in the past five years haven't ventured our way with this specific group and for them to put up a fight with bat and ball shows many promising signs.

I will compare Sri Lankan and West Indian cricket this week in a Lofted Drive column, so while this 2-0 series win may feel like domination on behalf of the kiwis we should be grateful that Sri Lanka are heading in the right direction.

That being said, a 2-0 series win is the sort of performance that we now expect from our lads on home turf. Our bowlers showed their knowledge of local conditions and greater control in building pressure, dotting 'em up, earning wickets than they did in Australia. Besides three run-outs, The Stable took all the wickets which put the swing, seam, bounce and combination that this bowling attack has in the spotlight.

I touched on a few times in the daily reports how a different bowler would pop up to chip in with a few wickets if nothing was doing from the other end. Tim Southee's signature style of pitching it up in that annoying spot outside off, with swing allows him to trouble the opposition's best batsmen; of Southee's seven wickets, five saw a top-five batsman heading back to the sheds.

Trent Boult had an average Test by his standards, with the only really lasting thought about his efforts being how Boult still managed to find some sort of impact despite not being at his best. Left-arm swing is an asset and Boultstill gave us some (a teeny weeny bit) of that.

I see Doug Bracewell as the perfect bridge between the swing of Southee/Boult and the grit of Neil Wagner. Bracewell's niche is hitting a good line and length without taking too many risks (Southee/Boult may get driven to the boundary in pursuit of swing), doing so consistently as well. Bracewell's patience allows Wagner to pose a threat with Wagner getting Sri Lanka's batsmen to once again fight fire with fire - I'd suggest that this is because they wanted to release the pressure being applied from the other end.

Southee finished with seven wickets, Bracewell and Wagner had four while Boult had two. Sounds like a handy bowling effort if you ask me from The Stable.

Domination sure, although the kiwis weren't that much better than Sri Lanka with the bat. Martin Guptill hit a 50 before getting out to a disgusting slog, which summed up the first innings as the BLACKCAPS batsmen put together one of their worst performances of recent memory. This came thanks to Dushmantha Chameera's great spell, how the kiwis failed to deal with Chameera's pace and bounce though was not ideal.

In all honesty, without Kane Williamson the second innings wouldn't have been much better and this is my biggest worry moving forward. Williamson is fucking amazing and capable of saving this team as often as he wants, however we can't expect this team to get better if we don't dig deeper than Williamson's knock.

2-0.

I'd say this Test was a 7/10. Our bowlers were fabulous, our batsmen not so much and Prince Kane was mouth-watering. 

Job done, but work to do.

If only there was like a Boxing Day Test or something.