Fleming ton crushes Bangladesh
For the second time in five days, New Zealand's well-oiled bowling attack turned in a clinical bowling display, giving their team a foothold into the semi-finals of the World Cup by beating Bangladesh by nine wickets
02/04Result
31st Match, Super Eights, ICC World Cup at North Sound, Apr 2 2007
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![Bangladesh]( "Bangladesh")
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![New Zealand]( "New Zealand")
178/1 (29.2/50 ov)
Player of the Match
02/04Result
31st Match, Super Eights, ICC World Cup at North Sound, Apr 2 2007
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![Bangladesh]( "Bangladesh")
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![New Zealand]( "New Zealand")
178/1 (29.2/50 ov)
Player of the Match
Match Centre
Statistics
Best performances - Batsmen
SP Fleming
102(92) 10x4 - 3x6
Control %90%
- Productive Shot
- leg glance
- 22 runs
- 2x4 - 1x6
Best performances - Bowlers
SB Styris
- O10
- M1
- R43
- W4
- Eco4.3
- FTFULL TOSS
- YYORKER
- FFULL LENGTH
- GGOOD LENGTH
- SGSHORT OF GOOD LENGTH
- SSHORT LENGTH
JDP Oram
- O9.3
- M0
- R30
- W3
- Eco3.15
- FTFULL TOSS
- YYORKER
- FFULL LENGTH
- GGOOD LENGTH
- SGSHORT OF GOOD LENGTH
- SSHORT LENGTH
Match Details
Series
Toss
New Zealand , elected to field first
Player Of The Match
Match number
Season
Hours of play (local time)
09.30 start, First Session 09.30-13.00. Interval 13.00-13.45, Second Session 13.45-17.15
Match days
2 April 2007 (50-over match)
Umpires
TV Umpires
Reserve Umpire
Match Referee
Points
New Zealand 2, Bangladesh 0
Scorecard Summary
BANGLADESH 174 (48.3 OVERS)
- Mohammad Rafique*30 (36)
- Tamim Iqbal29 (54)
- Jacob Oram3/30 (9.3)
- Scott Styris4/43 (10)
NEW ZEALAND 178/1 (29.2 OVERS)
- Stephen Fleming*102 (92)
- Hamish Marshall*50 (54)
- Shakib Al Hasan0/33 (3)
- Syed Rasel1/22 (7)
Another professional performance from New Zealand. Another win. Two more points in the kitty. Six in total. Tough opposition awaits them though. Australia, Sri Lanka and South Africa. Hopefully.... we will get to see some tough contests.
Man-of-the-Match: Shane Bond
This is Sriram Veera, signing off. Ta!
29.2
6
Mohammad Ashraful to Marshall, SIX, Marshall finishes the game off with a biggie. Down he went on his knee and disposed a flighted delivery over deep midwicket.
29.1
1
Mohammad Ashraful to Fleming, 1 run, slightly short in length, on middle and leg, flicked to deep midwicket for a single
END OF OVER:29 | 11 Runs | NZ: 171/1 (4 runs required from 21 overs, RR: 5.89, RRR: 0.19)
- Stephen Fleming101 (91b)
- Hamish Marshall44 (53b)
- Abdur Razzak8-0-38-0
- Mohammad Rafique5-0-37-0
28.6
1
Abdur Razzak to Fleming, 1 run, on the leg and middle, worked through square-leg
28.5
4
Abdur Razzak to Fleming, FOUR, Fleming gets his eight ODI hundred. Also reaches 1000 runs in World Cup games. Take a bow Stephen Fleming. Full, on the middle and leg, he went down on a bent knee and slog-swept it to long leg.
28.4
2
Abdur Razzak to Fleming, 2 runs, moves to 96 with a thrash to widish long on. one hit away from the landmark
28.3
2
Abdur Razzak to Fleming, 2 runs, Fleming is peppering the cow corner. Tossed up outside off and he slog swept it, high in the air, in that region between deep midwicket and long on
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Fleming ton crushes Bangladesh
For the second time in five days, New Zealand's well-oiled bowling attack turned in a clinical bowling display, giving their team a foothold into the semi-finals of the World Cup by beating Bangladesh by nine wickets
'We were too careful' - Bashar
After an over-aggressive display against Australia on Saturday, Bangladesh were this time guilty of forsaking their natural game against New Zealand
World Cup
| Super Eights | |||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Team | M | W | L | PT | NRR |
| AUS | 7 | 7 | 0 | 14 | 2.4 |
| SL | 7 | 5 | 2 | 10 | 1.483 |
| NZ | 7 | 5 | 2 | 10 | 0.253 |
| SA | 7 | 4 | 3 | 8 | 0.313 |
| ENG | 7 | 3 | 4 | 6 | -0.394 |
| WI | 7 | 2 | 5 | 4 | -0.566 |
| BAN | 7 | 1 | 6 | 2 | -1.514 |
| IRE | 7 | 1 | 6 | 2 | -1.73 |
| Group A | |||||
| Team | M | W | L | PT | NRR |
| AUS | 3 | 3 | 0 | 6 | 3.433 |
| SA | 3 | 2 | 1 | 4 | 2.403 |
| NED | 3 | 1 | 2 | 2 | -2.527 |
| SCOT | 3 | 0 | 3 | 0 | -3.793 |
| Group B | |||||
| Team | M | W | L | PT | NRR |
| SL | 3 | 3 | 0 | 6 | 3.493 |
| BAN | 3 | 2 | 1 | 4 | -1.523 |
| IND | 3 | 1 | 2 | 2 | 1.206 |
| BER | 3 | 0 | 3 | 0 | -4.345 |
| Group C | |||||
| Team | M | W | L | PT | NRR |
| NZ | 3 | 3 | 0 | 6 | 2.138 |
| ENG | 3 | 2 | 1 | 4 | 0.418 |
| KENYA | 3 | 1 | 2 | 2 | -1.194 |
| CAN | 3 | 0 | 3 | 0 | -1.389 |
| Group D | |||||
| Team | M | W | L | PT | NRR |
| WI | 3 | 3 | 0 | 6 | 0.764 |
| IRE | 3 | 1 | 1 | 3 | -0.092 |
| PAK | 3 | 1 | 2 | 2 | 0.089 |
| ZIM | 3 | 0 | 2 | 1 | -0.886 |