- BATSMENRBM4s6sSR42.6 what a strange dismissal, a loopy offspinner from Davison dips as it arrives at Vincent who tries to work through midwicket - having started to think about the sweep - and got a leading edge which gently lobbed back to Davison 278/521.3 the breakthrough! Fleming tried to use his feet to get to the pitch and flicked the ball low towards short midwicket, nicely bowled by Sandher and well taken, low down, by Billcliff 142/135.2 Nelson strikes! Well, not specifically Nelson itself, but you know what we mean. That one angles across the righthander and would have gone on to hit leg-and-middle 222/238.5 Bagai does very well to cling on to that one in the end. He lost it in the sun, despite some big Fly-type sunnies allegedly assisting him, as Styris shot that high and higher, straight up and Bagai had to run forward and, at the last minute, dive forward to - like removing a nice apple soufflé from the oven - cling on with the big gloves 253/340.4 great catch! McMillan opened his front leg to give himself room and launched it high towards deep midwicket, but he was hitting against the breeze and the ball held up in the air...Samad ran in from the fence and held a superbly judged catch, making sure the ball didn't come out as he slid on the turf 266/4Extras24 (b 1, lb 5, nb 1, w 17)TOTAL363/5 (50 Overs, RR: 7.26)Fall of wickets: 1-142 (Stephen Fleming, 21.3 ov), 2-222 (Peter Fulton, 35.2 ov), 3-253 (Scott Styris, 38.5 ov), 4-266 (Craig McMillan, 40.4 ov), 5-278 (Lou Vincent, 42.6 ov)
Bowling O M R W Econ 0s 4s 6s WD NB AC Cummins 10 1 59 0 5.9 30 3 2 4 1 U Bhatti 5.3 1 25 0 4.54 22 3 0 3 0 AM Samad 2.3 0 31 1 12.4 7 6 0 1 0 H Osinde 4 0 45 0 11.25 7 6 1 1 0 KT Sandher 10 0 58 2 5.8 30 4 2 0 0 JM Davison 10 0 67 2 6.7 22 5 1 2 0 S Dhaniram 8 0 72 0 9 14 2 5 0 0
Player of the Match
Player of the Match
- BATSMENRBM4s6sSR9.4 got him! That's the blow. Mason's face is an absolute picture of delight as Davison's rout comes to an end. A short ball, Davison tried to target the leg side and didn't get the middle of the bat, Mason standing firm to take a solid catch 76/120.4 slider, quicker ball, spinning in and it went on with the arm. That was a fine edge cut through to McCullum, who clung on this time after dropping a difficult chance of him earlier, and that's the second wicket 110/234.6 nicely bowled, again very wide on the crease, varying his pace and spearing in towards the pads...Bagai comes down the track and virtually yorks himself, the ball takes back leg stump 188/337.5 now he's gone, the ball after reaching fifty he goes for a swing and loses his leg stump...there was a much bigger score for the taking but perhaps his concentration just went a fraction and that's all it takes 201/439.2 forced off the back foot into the covers, and some more brilliant fielding by Lou Vincent brings him another direct-hit run out, at the bowler's end, with Samad trying to dive back but not able to make it...that was outstanding work for Vincent, who's had a fine day 207/638.6 gone this time, planting his front foot down the pitch he's struck in line with middle and off, Billy Doctrove raises the finger as that ball does all the right things 206/544.5 attempted-yorker-turned-low-full-toss clatters into his right wrist as that was picked up late by Dhaniram 226/647.4 horrible - a big heave looking to send that into Row Z, instead it hit middle-and-off and the batsman's on his way 245/749.1 well bowled and Patel has to hold both hands up in appeal to confirm the wicket. Full delivery and Sandher swooshes at that one, misses, and the ball just clips the off stick on the way through to the keeper 249/849.2 another bowled, that one clattering into the off stick, the No 11 driving with a straight bat and missed that one completely 249/9Extras23 (b 4, lb 5, nb 9, w 5)TOTAL249 all out (49.2 Overs, RR: 5.04)Fall of wickets: 1-76 (John Davison, 9.4 ov), 2-110 (Geoff Barnett, 20.4 ov), 3-188 (Ashish Bagai, 34.6 ov), 4-201 (Ian Billcliff, 37.5 ov), 5-206 (Ashif Mulla, 38.6 ov), 6-207 (Abdool Samad, 39.2 ov), 6-226* (Sunil Dhaniram, retired not out ), 7-245 (Umar Bhatti, 47.4 ov), 8-249 (Kevin Sandher, 49.1 ov), 9-249 (Henry Osinde, 49.2 ov)
Bowling O M R W Econ 0s 4s 6s WD NB DR Tuffey 6 0 40 0 6.66 22 5 1 2 1 MJ Mason 8 0 60 1 7.5 23 8 0 1 4 JDP Oram 7 1 16 0 2.28 29 0 0 0 1 JS Patel 9.2 0 25 3 2.67 38 2 0 0 0 DL Vettori 10 0 57 3 5.7 28 6 0 0 2 SB Styris 6 0 21 1 3.5 21 1 0 2 0 CD McMillan 3 0 21 0 7 11 3 1 0 0
Match Details
Series
Toss
Canada , 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
22 March 2007 (50-over match)
Umpires
TV Umpires
Reserve Umpire
Match Referee
Points
New Zealand 2, Canada 0
Match Notes
- Power Play 2: Overs 10.1 - 15.0
- New Zealand: 50 runs in 10.3 overs (70 balls), Extras 11
- 1st Wicket: 50 runs in 70 balls (L Vincent 23, SP Fleming 17, Ex 11)
- Drinks: New Zealand - 99/0 in 15.0 overs (L Vincent 35, SP Fleming 46)
- Power Play 3: Overs 15.1 - 20.0
- New Zealand: 100 runs in 15.2 overs (102 balls), Extras 18
- 1st Wicket: 100 runs in 102 balls (L Vincent 39, SP Fleming 46, Ex 18)
- SP Fleming: 50 off 53 balls (7 x 4, 1 x 6)
- L Vincent: 50 off 55 balls (6 x 4, 1 x 6)
- New Zealand: 150 runs in 24.1 overs (157 balls), Extras 22
- 2nd Wicket: 50 runs in 48 balls (L Vincent 21, PG Fulton 28, Ex 1)
- New Zealand: 200 runs in 31.1 overs (199 balls), Extras 23
- Drinks: New Zealand - 213/1 in 34.0 overs (L Vincent 83, PG Fulton 41)
- New Zealand Innings: 1x7 ball over (35th over, H Osinde, called by Umpire Asad Rauf)
- New Zealand: 250 runs in 38.4 overs (245 balls), Extras 23
- L Vincent: 100 off 115 balls (9 x 4, 1 x 6)
- New Zealand: 300 runs in 45.5 overs (288 balls), Extras 23
- 6th Wicket: 50 runs in 30 balls (JDP Oram 18, BB McCullum 31, Ex 1)
- New Zealand: 350 runs in 49.3 overs (310 balls), Extras 24
- BB McCullum: 50 off 20 balls (1 x 4, 5 x 6)
- Canada: 50 runs in 4.4 overs (30 balls), Extras 3
- 1st Wicket: 50 runs in 30 balls (JM Davison 38, GEF Barnett 10, Ex 3)
- JM Davison: 50 off 23 balls (9 x 4, 1 x 6)
- Power Play 2: Overs 10.1 - 15.0
- Lunch: Canada - 0/0
- Power Play 3: Overs 15.1 - 20.0
- Canada: 100 runs in 15.6 overs (104 balls), Extras 11
- Drinks: Canada - 100/1 in 16.0 overs (GEF Barnett 34, A Bagai 3)
- Canada: 150 runs in 27.3 overs (174 balls), Extras 16
- 3rd Wicket: 50 runs in 56 balls (A Bagai 17, IS Billcliff 28, Ex 6)
- Canada: 200 runs in 37.3 overs (237 balls), Extras 19
- IS Billcliff: 50 off 55 balls (4 x 4)
- S Dhaniram retired hurt at 226/6 (17, 44.5 overs)
- Official Attendance - 6,100
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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 |





