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CHENNAI: New Zealand crushed Kenya by 10 wickets in a totally lop-sided Group A match for a perfect start to their World Cup campaign on Sunday.
New Zealand unleashed their pace trio of Tim Southee (3-13), Hamish Bennett (4-16) and Jacob Oram (3-2) to bundle out rank outsiders Kenya for a meagre 69 in 23.5 overs and returned to overwhelm the target in eight overs.
There was not much room for batting practice chasing a 70-run victory target but openers Martin Guptill (39) and Brendon McCullum (26) stroked some easy boundaries before completing the chase.
The comprehensive win will lift New Zealand's morale which had taken a beating after a poor build-up that included whitewash in Bangladesh and India, besides a home series defeat against Pakistan.
Earlier, Kenya captain Jimmy Kamande won the toss and opted to bat first before a horror story unfolded in front of his eyes.
Two days before he turns 24, Bennett ran through the top order as Kenya's top half was back in the hut even before the team total had reached the 50-run mark.Openers Alex Obanda (6) and Seren Waters (16) began cautiously even if run-rate was nothing to write home about.
Southee trapped Obanda in the seventh over before Bennett suddenly took fancy to beating the blade and hitting the pad of the flummoxed Kenyan batsmen, claiming three of his four victims lbw.
Southee dismissed Nehemiah Odhiambo and Shem Ngoche off the last two deliveries of his sixth over but could not get a chance to complete his hat-trick as Oram removed Elijah Otieno for a duck to drop the curtains on the Kenyan innings.
Only three Kenyan batsmen - Waters, Collins Obuya (14) and Rakep Patel (15 not out) - managed double digit scores.
New Zealand missed Kyle Mills' service through a sore back but off-spinner Nathan McCullum recovered from fever to open the attack, a move that is getting increasingly popular among the visiting teams.
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score card
| Kenya innings (50 overs maximum) | R | M | B | 4s | 6s | SR |
| AA Obanda | lbw b Southee | 6 | 27 | 19 | 0 | 0 | 31.57 |
| 6.6 finally Southee gets some reward for some tight bowling, this one was pitched on a length, and went on with the angle to hit Obanda on the pads, New Zealand went up, so too did umpire Erasmus' finger, looked to be heading towards leg stump, but replays show it bouncing just over the top of the stumps, Kenya haven't gone for the review 14/1
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| SR Waters | lbw b Bennett | 16 | 49 | 42 | 1 | 0 | 38.09 |
| 11.6 full and angled in on the stumps, Waters is late on it and plays around it to be struck on the pads, the umpire thinks long before raising the finger, the batsmen get together, and decide not to review it, Waters walks back after a stuttering innings, replays show that would have taken out leg 40/2
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| CO Obuya | lbw b Bennett | 14 | 32 | 19 | 2 | 0 | 73.68 |
| 13.5 they continue to fall, another fullish delivery, this one stayed low, and rapped him on the pads, Bennett asked the question and got an affirmative answer from the umpire, Kenya try to delay the inevitable with a decision review, but that is dead, that is hitting middle, he just played outside the line, and now has to walk back, Kenya in tatters 44/4
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| SO Tikolo | b Bennett | 2 | 4 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 100.00 |
| 13.2 cleaned him up, what a delivery, full and steaming in on the stumps, Tikolo plays all over it, and it crashes in to the base of middle, and takes out off stump too for good measure, Kenya have lost their most experienced player 42/3
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| MA Ouma† | lbw b Bennett | 1 | 12 | 6 | 0 | 0 | 16.66 |
| 15.3 Bennett is on fire, and Kenya are wilting under the heat, it was very full and quick, Ouma was late on the attempted flick, and the bat was late in coming in front of pad, up went the finger, but hello, replays show he was struck comfortably outside the line of off stump, but Kenya decided not to review it, well if they reviewed the plumb leg before of Obuya, they could have done this one too, but alas, they don't, and are five down one short of 50 49/5
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| RR Patel | not out | 16 | 46 | 23 | 1 | 0 | 69.56 |
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| JK Kamande* | c †BB McCullum b Oram | 2 | 19 | 16 | 0 | 0 | 12.50 |
| 19.5 gets his man in his first over, he pitched it a shade fuller outside off, Kamande looked to run it down to third man, but the extra bounce that Oram normally gets did him in, and the thick edge flew to the right of Baz who held on comfortably, more worries for Kenya 59/6
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| TM Odoyo | c Ryder b Oram | 2 | 6 | 6 | 0 | 0 | 33.33 |
| 21.3 another one stops on the batsman, there have been a few of those, but the problem for Odoyo was, it also produced the Oram extra bounce, Odoyo was taken by surprise and ungainly fended it in the air for Jesse to take the dolliest of dollies at point, dear me, Kenya have gone nowhere in this innings 63/7
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| NN Odhiambo | b Southee | 0 | 6 | 6 | 0 | 0 | 0.00 |
| 22.5 and another one goes, nothing shot really, swinging wildly to a full delivery that was of the you-miss-I-hit types, well Odhiambo missed, and the ball uprooted off stump, ho hum 68/8
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| SO Ngoche | lbw b Southee | 0 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0.00 |
| 22.6 two in two for Tim, pinpoint yorker on the stumps, and before the bat could come down, the ball had crashed on to boot, not much to decide for the umpire, Southee is on a hat trick with one wicket to go 68/9
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| E Otieno | c Styris b Oram | 0 | 4 | 4 | 0 | 0 | 0.00 |
| 23.5 oops, there will be no hat trick for Southee, another one stopped on the batsman, he was already well forward and pushing hard at it, and the ball flew to one of the two men at short midwicket, it's all over for Kenya, nice gesture from the big man Oram, grins sheepishly and gestures apologetically in the direction of Southee, who has an even broader smile on his face 69/10
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| Extras | (b 4, lb 3, w 2, nb 1) | 10 |
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| Total | (all out; 23.5 overs; 107 mins) | 69 | (2.89 runs per over) |
| Fall of wickets1-14 (Obanda, 6.6 ov), 2-40 (Waters, 11.6 ov), 3-42 (Tikolo, 13.2 ov), 4-44 (Obuya, 13.5 ov), 5-49 (Ouma, 15.3 ov), 6-59 (Kamande, 19.5 ov), 7-63 (Odoyo, 21.3 ov), 8-68 (Odhiambo, 22.5 ov), 9-68 (Ngoche, 22.6 ov), 10-69 (Otieno, 23.5 ov) |
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| Bowling | O | M | R | W | Econ |
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| TG Southee | 6 | 0 | 13 | 3 | 2.16 | (1nb) |
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| 6.6 to Obanda, finally Southee gets some reward for some tight bowling, this one was pitched on a length, and went on with the angle to hit Obanda on the pads, New Zealand went up, so too did umpire Erasmus' finger, looked to be heading towards leg stump, but replays show it bouncing just over the top of the stumps, Kenya haven't gone for the review 14/1
22.5 to Odhiambo, and another one goes, nothing shot really, swinging wildly to a full delivery that was of the you-miss-I-hit types, well Odhiambo missed, and the ball uprooted off stump, ho hum 68/8
22.6 to Ngoche, two in two for Tim, pinpoint yorker on the stumps, and before the bat could come down, the ball had crashed on to boot, not much to decide for the umpire, Southee is on a hat trick with one wicket to go 68/9
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| NL McCullum | 4 | 0 | 15 | 0 | 3.75 | (1w) |
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| HK Bennett | 5 | 0 | 16 | 4 | 3.20 | (1w) |
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| 11.6 to Waters, full and angled in on the stumps, Waters is late on it and plays around it to be struck on the pads, the umpire thinks long before raising the finger, the batsmen get together, and decide not to review it, Waters walks back after a stuttering innings, replays show that would have taken out leg 40/2
13.2 to Tikolo, cleaned him up, what a delivery, full and steaming in on the stumps, Tikolo plays all over it, and it crashes in to the base of middle, and takes out off stump too for good measure, Kenya have lost their most experienced player 42/3
13.5 to Obuya, they continue to fall, another fullish delivery, this one stayed low, and rapped him on the pads, Bennett asked the question and got an affirmative answer from the umpire, Kenya try to delay the inevitable with a decision review, but that is dead, that is hitting middle, he just played outside the line, and now has to walk back, Kenya in tatters 44/4
15.3 to Ouma, Bennett is on fire, and Kenya are wilting under the heat, it was very full and quick, Ouma was late on the attempted flick, and the bat was late in coming in front of pad, up went the finger, but hello, replays show he was struck comfortably outside the line of off stump, but Kenya decided not to review it, well if they reviewed the plumb leg before of Obuya, they could have done this one too, but alas, they don't, and are five down one short of 50 49/5
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| DL Vettori | 6 | 1 | 16 | 0 | 2.66 |
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| JDP Oram | 2.5 | 1 | 2 | 3 | 0.70 |
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| 19.5 to Kamande, gets his man in his first over, he pitched it a shade fuller outside off, Kamande looked to run it down to third man, but the extra bounce that Oram normally gets did him in, and the thick edge flew to the right of Baz who held on comfortably, more worries for Kenya 59/6
21.3 to Odoyo, another one stops on the batsman, there have been a few of those, but the problem for Odoyo was, it also produced the Oram extra bounce, Odoyo was taken by surprise and ungainly fended it in the air for Jesse to take the dolliest of dollies at point, dear me, Kenya have gone nowhere in this innings 63/7
23.5 to Otieno, oops, there will be no hat trick for Southee, another one stopped on the batsman, he was already well forward and pushing hard at it, and the ball flew to one of the two men at short midwicket, it's all over for Kenya, nice gesture from the big man Oram, grins sheepishly and gestures apologetically in the direction of Southee, who has an even broader smile on his face 69/10
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| New Zealand innings (target: 70 runs from 50 overs) | R | M | B | 4s | 6s | SR |
| MJ Guptill | not out | 39 | 37 | 32 | 5 | 2 | 121.87 |
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| BB McCullum† | not out | 26 | 37 | 17 | 4 | 0 | 152.94 |
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| Extras | (b 2, lb 1, w 3, nb 1) | 7 |
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| Total | (0 wickets; 8 overs; 37 mins) | 72 | (9.00 runs per over) |
| Did not bat JD Ryder, LRPL Taylor, JEC Franklin, SB Styris, DL Vettori*, NL McCullum, JDP Oram, TG Southee, HK Bennett |
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| Bowling | O | M | R | W | Econ |
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| TM Odoyo | 3 | 0 | 25 | 0 | 8.33 | (1w) |
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| E Otieno | 2 | 0 | 18 | 0 | 9.00 |
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| JK Kamande | 2 | 0 | 21 | 0 | 10.50 | (1w) |
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| NN Odhiambo | 1 | 0 | 5 | 0 | 5.00 | (1nb, 1w) |
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