Kumar Sangakkara became the fastest player to reach 12,000 Test runs but it was the bowlers who dominated day one of the second Test between New Zealand and Sri Lanka in Wellington.
Fifteen wickets fell on a green track at the Basin Reserve, four of them to Nuwan Pradeep as the hosts were bowled out for 221 before Sri Lanka slipped to 78 for five, Doug Bracewell taking 3-23.
Sangakkara, though, stood firm on 33 not out, having become the fastest player, and the first from his country, to break the 12,000-run barrier: he is only the fifth man to achieve the feat.
New Zealand openers Tom Latham and Hamish Rutherford put on 31 in seven overs before the former was caught behind off Suranga Lakmal.
Kane Williamson top-scored with 69, adding 31 with Rutherford, who then gave wicketkeeper Prasanna Jayawardene his second catch.
Williamson and Ross Taylor put on 79 before Taylor (35) chopped on to become Pradeep's second victim.
Brendon McCullum, who before the match had been presented with the freedom of the city of Wellington, failed to celebrate as he chopped his second ball from Lakmal onto the stumps.
Williamson's half-century arrived with an unconvincing edge which bounced away to the boundary, but he lost further partners in Jimmy Neesham and BJ Watling before he played on in similar fashion to McCullum and Taylor.
Tim Southee became Pradeep's fourth victim and Bracewell was last man out after an enterprising last-wicket stand of 26 with Trent Boult.
Sri Lanka opener Dimuth Karunaratne edged Boult to slip and Kusal Silva joined the ranks of batsmen playing on, though in unfortunate fashion as a defensive push at Bracewell came off the toe end, bounced up and looped onto his stumps.
Sangakkara tucked Boult through the leg side for two to reach his landmark, joining only Indian pair Sachin Tendulkar and Rahul Dravid, former Australia captain Ricky Ponting and South Africa all-rounder Jacques Kallis.
It took the 37-year-old just 224 Test innings to reach the milestone, with Ponting and Tendulkar next quickest on 247.
The scoreless Lahiru Thirimanne almost immediately fended Bracewell to McCullum at short cover, and Angelo Mathews made 15 before edging Southee to keeper Watling.
Jayawardene made six before falling in the final over to end the day's play.