New Zealand vs Pakistan (Pallekele) (8th March)

ICC World Cup 2011 – 8^th March

24^th Match – Group A     (50-over match)

Played at Pallekele International Cricket Stadium, Kendy,

New Zealand won by 110 runs;

New Zealand won the toss and chose to bat first;

Scoreboard:

New Zealand        302/7    (50 over)

New Zealand Innings	50 over maximum	R	B	4s	6s	S/R
MJ Guptill	b Shahid Afridi	57	86	6	0	66.27
BB McCullum†	b Shoaib Akhtar	6	3	0	1	200.00
JM How	lbw b Umar Gul	4	29	0	0	13.79
LRPL Taylor	not out	131	124	8	7	105.64
JEC Franklin	lbw b Mohammad Hafeez	1	2	0	0	50.00
SB Styris	lbw b Umar Gul	28	37	1	0	75.67
NL McCullum	b Umar Gul	19	10	1	2	190.00
JDP Oram	c Umar Gul b Abdur Rehman	25	9	1	3	277.77
KD Mills	not out	7	3	1	0	233.33
Extras	(lb 10, w 11, nb 3)	24

Total (7 wickets; 50 over) 302 (6.04 runs per over)

Did not bat:

DL Vettori*, TG Southee

Fall of wickets:

1-8 (BB McCullum, 0.4 over), 2-55 (How, 12.3 over), 3-112 (Guptill, 28.5 over), 4-113 (Franklin, 29.1 over), 5-175 (Styris, 41.6 over), 6-210 (NL McCullum, 45.5 over), 7-295 (Oram, 49.3 over)

Bowling	O	M	R	W	Econ.
Shoaib Akhtar	9	0	70	1	7.77	(3nb, 3w)
Abdur Rehman	10	0	60	1	6.00	(1w)
Umar Gul	10	1	32	3	3.20	(2w)
Abdul Razzaq	4	0	49	0	12.25	(4w)
Shahid Afridi	10	0	55	1	5.50
Mohammad Hafeez	7	0	26	1	3.71	(1w)

Pakistan            192/10    (41.4 over)    (lost by 110 runs)

Pakistan Innings	(target: 303 runs from 50 overs)	R	B	4s	6s	S/R
Mohammad Hafeez	lbw b Southee	5	6	1	0	83.33
Ahmed Shehzad	lbw b Mills	10	16	1	0	62.50
Kamran Akmal†	c Taylor b Southee	8	16	1	0	50.00
Younis Khan	b Mills	0	3	0	0	0.00
Misbah-ul-Haq	c Styris b Southee	7	31	0	0	22.58
Umar Akmal	c Oram b NL McCullum	38	58	3	0	65.51
Shahid Afridi*	b Oram	17	9	2	1	188.88
Abdul Razzaq	c Oram b Styris	62	74	9	0	83.78
Abdur Rehman	lbw b NL McCullum	1	10	0	0	10.00
Umar Gul	not out	34	25	3	1	136.00
Shoaib Akhtar	c NL McCullum b Styris	0	2	0	0	0.00
Extras	(lb 6, w 4)	10

Total (all out; 41.4 over) 192 (4.60 runs per over)

Did not bat: All batted;

Fall of wickets:

1-5 (Mohammad Hafeez, 1.2 over), 2-23 (Ahmed Shehzad, 6.1 over), 3-23 (Younis Khan, 6.4 over), 4-23 (Kamran Akmal, 7.1 over), 5-45 (Misbah-ul-Haq, 14.4 over), 6-66 (Shahid Afridi, 17.1 over), 7-102 (Umar Akmal, 28.3 over), 8-125 (Abdur Rehman, 32.4 over), 9-191 (Abdul Razzaq, 41.1 over), 10-192 (Shoaib Akhtar, 41.4 over)

Bowling	O	M	R	W	Econ.
KD Mills	8	1	43	2	5.37
TG Southee	8	1	25	3	3.12
JDP Oram	10	1	47	1	4.70
JEC Franklin	5	0	26	0	5.20
NL McCullum	6	0	28	2	4.66	(1w)
SB Styris	4.4	0	17	2	3.64

Player of the match:    LRPL Taylor (New Zealand)

Umpires:        DJ Harper (Australia) and NJ Llong (England)

TV umpire:        IJ Gould (England)

Ross Taylor pulled New Zealand to the top of Group A table before played an unbeaten innings of 131-runs. Pakistan showed a feeble presentation in all departments of match, bowling poor, fielding disastrous as Kamran Akmal dropped two easy catches of Ross Taylor when he was on 0 and 4 in Shoaib's over, showed iffy batting techniques, Kiwis stopped the march of winning streak of Pakistan as won three consecutive wins. Ross Taylor launched an attack so brutal that Pakistan were gutted and rendered defenseless by the end of the innings. Kiwis scored last 100 in just 29 balls as Pakistan bowlers Shoaib and Razzaq especially delivered full toss and short pitch balls to Kiwi batsmen.

Martin Guptill was their lonely performer in the first half of the innings, and Taylor needed gigantic slices luck to get going. But in the last six overs Taylor broke free with unprecedented violence, taking 28 off a Shoaib over before plundering 30 - a new tournament record - off one from Abdul Razzaq. It began to rain sixes and fours and Pakistan's helplessness was startling as New Zealand plundered 114 off the last six over to reach 302.

Pakistan's batsmen were still fainting from Taylor's rope-a-dope when they began their chase and the expected collapse came to pass. The contest had ended before the mandatory Power-play was over and, after the innings had been reduced to 23 for 4 and 66 for 6, Abdul Razzaq merely delayed the inevitable with a half-century. The only worry for New Zealand was the fitness of their captain - Daniel Vettori limped painfully off the field after injuring his knee in the sixth over and did not return. Taylor, who took over the captaincy, however, had ensured that Vettori's bowling wasn't needed on the day.