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(TOI)
BANGALORE. Reigning champions Australia eased into the quarterfinals of the World Cup with an 60-run win against Group A makeweights Kenya at the Chinnaswamy stadium on Sunday.
Kenya, chasing 325 for an unlikely win, were held to 264 for six for their fifth defeat in as many group matches.
Kenya faced a daunting chase considering their previous best total in this group was the 198 they'd made last time out in a five-wicket defeat by Canada.
Opener Alex Obanda struck fast bowler Shaun Tait for two superb sixes, flaying him over point and driving him high over long-on to the delight of neutral fans in a crowd of 13,600.
But when he was bowled for 14, swinging across a Tait full toss, Kenya were suddenly 46 for three when a mix-up between the Obuya brothers saw David run out.
Collins Obuya (98 not out) and Tanmay Mishra (72) kept Australia at bay with career-best innings in a fourth-wicket stand of 115, although the pair's run-rate never suggested an upset win.
Mishra made a 63-ball fifty featuring a six and six fours. It was his second half-century in as many innings following his 51 against Canada.
The pair played Australia's lead spin duo of Steven Smith and Jason Krejza with relative ease, striking several boundaries off the slow bowlers whose combined 14 wicketless overs cost 72 runs.
Mishra fell for a career-best 72 after a needless run out saw him beaten by Michael Clarke's direct hit from backward point.
Collins Obuya completed his fifty in style with a huge six over long-off against Shane Watson and later pulled him high above square leg.
He needed three off the last ball, from Tait, to get a hundred but could only manage a single.
In all he faced 129 balls with three sixes and nine fours.
Earlier Australia, now unbeaten in 33 matches at the World Cup dating back to 1999, lost three wickets for 16 runs to slump to 143 for four.
But a stand of 114 between vice-captain Clarke (93) and the returning Michael Hussey (54) helped Australia finish on 324 for six.
Clarke, on the ground where he made a hundred on Test debut against India in 2004, struck a six and seven fours during a composed 80-ball knock before he holed out off fast bowler Nehemiah Odhiambo, who took three for 57.
Opening batsman Brad Haddin, dropped twice off tough chances early in his innings, made 65 and helped skipper Ricky Ponting add 89 for the second wicket.
Haddin was caught at deep midwicket by Rakep Patel off Kenya captain Jimmy Kamande, who took two for nine in eight balls with his off-spinners.
Ponting was lbw to leg-spinner Collins Obuya for 36.
Hussey, in at the fall of the fourth wicket, was playing his first match of the tournament after recovering from a hamstring problem and getting a late summons as a replacement for injured fast bowler Doug Bollinger.
The 35-year-old left-hander, in for dropped younger brother David, demonstrated customary calm at the crease during a 43-ball innings.
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score card
| Australia innings (50 overs maximum) | R | M | B | 4s | 6s | SR |
| SR Watson | c †Ouma b Odhiambo | 21 | 32 | 17 | 3 | 1 | 123.52 |
| 7.2 136.2 kph, caught! And such a late celebratory reaction from the keeper! That was short and wide from Odhiambo, but he got the ball to bounce a touch more. Watson went for the cut and got a thick edge through to the keeper, who had to take it over his head 38/1 |
| BJ Haddin† | c Patel b Kamande | 65 | 109 | 79 | 9 | 1 | 82.27 |
| 24.4 88.4 kph, caught at deep midwicket! Haddin moves forward, picks up the ball from outside off and swings it high and straight to the man on the deep midwicket boundary 127/2 |
| RT Ponting* | lbw b CO Obuya | 36 | 83 | 54 | 5 | 0 | 66.66 |
| 25.4 80.4 kph, loud appeal for lbw as Ponting attempts to work the ball on the leg side but misses and gets hit on the pad. The umpire says not out and Kenya want a review. That one didn't turn, was going straight through. A terrific review it is for that was hitting middle and leg. 131/3 |
| MJ Clarke | c Patel b Odhiambo | 93 | 109 | 80 | 7 | 1 | 116.25 |
| 48.1 110.4 kph, whoops, he's holed out to long-on. Clarke tried to launch a full ball over the man on the long-on boundary. He didn't get enough elevation or distance and Patel took a fine catch at shin height. That was travelling to him quickly and Clarke's World Cup average comes down a notch or two ... 304/6 |
| CL White | b Kamande | 2 | 6 | 6 | 0 | 0 | 33.33 |
| 26.6 oh wow! Did Kamande become Murali? White is shocked and with good reason. That ball pitched a long way outside off and spun viciously into the right-hander. White pushed forward in defence and the ball spun past his bat and hit off and middle. More middle than off. Was there an inside edge on to the stumps? I'm not yet sure ... There was no inside edge, simply spun massively between bat and pad. 143/4 |
| MEK Hussey | c DO Obuya b Odhiambo | 54 | 72 | 43 | 4 | 0 | 125.58 |
| 43.1 caught at long-on! The length was a touch full, the line was outside off and the pace might have been a touch slower. Hussey drags the ball from outside off towards David Obuya who ran in a bit and took the catch. Hussey was aiming to hit it straighter ... 257/5 |
| SPD Smith | not out | 17 | 32 | 15 | 2 | 0 | 113.33 |
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| MG Johnson | not out | 12 | 9 | 7 | 2 | 0 | 171.42 |
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| Extras | (b 2, lb 5, w 16, nb 1) | 24 |
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| Total | (6 wickets; 50 overs; 229 mins) | 324 | (6.48 runs per over) |
| Did not bat B Lee, JJ Krejza, SW Tait |
| Fall of wickets1-38 (Watson, 7.2 ov), 2-127 (Haddin, 24.4 ov), 3-131 (Ponting, 25.4 ov), 4-143 (White, 26.6 ov), 5-257 (Hussey, 43.1 ov), 6-304 (Clarke, 48.1 ov) |
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| TM Odoyo | 10 | 0 | 50 | 0 | 5.00 | (1w) |
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| E Otieno | 8 | 0 | 75 | 0 | 9.37 |
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| NN Odhiambo | 10 | 1 | 57 | 3 | 5.70 | (2w) |
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| 7.2 to Watson, 136.2 kph, caught! And such a late celebratory reaction from the keeper! That was short and wide from Odhiambo, but he got the ball to bounce a touch more. Watson went for the cut and got a thick edge through to the keeper, who had to take it over his head 38/1 43.1 to Hussey, caught at long-on! The length was a touch full, the line was outside off and the pace might have been a touch slower. Hussey drags the ball from outside off towards David Obuya who ran in a bit and took the catch. Hussey was aiming to hit it straighter ... 257/5 48.1 to Clarke, 110.4 kph, whoops, he's holed out to long-on. Clarke tried to launch a full ball over the man on the long-on boundary. He didn't get enough elevation or distance and Patel took a fine catch at shin height. That was travelling to him quickly and Clarke's World Cup average comes down a notch or two ... 304/6 |
| JO Ngoche | 8 | 0 | 56 | 0 | 7.00 | (1w) |
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| JK Kamande | 10 | 0 | 46 | 2 | 4.60 | (2w) |
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| 24.4 to Haddin, 88.4 kph, caught at deep midwicket! Haddin moves forward, picks up the ball from outside off and swings it high and straight to the man on the deep midwicket boundary 127/2 26.6 to White, oh wow! Did Kamande become Murali? White is shocked and with good reason. That ball pitched a long way outside off and spun viciously into the right-hander. White pushed forward in defence and the ball spun past his bat and hit off and middle. More middle than off. Was there an inside edge on to the stumps? I'm not yet sure ... There was no inside edge, simply spun massively between bat and pad. 143/4 |
| CO Obuya | 4 | 0 | 33 | 1 | 8.25 | (1nb, 1w) |
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| 25.4 to Ponting, 80.4 kph, loud appeal for lbw as Ponting attempts to work the ball on the leg side but misses and gets hit on the pad. The umpire says not out and Kenya want a review. That one didn't turn, was going straight through. A terrific review it is for that was hitting middle and leg. 131/3 |
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| Kenya innings (target: 325 runs from 50 overs) | R | M | B | 4s | 6s | SR |
| MA Ouma† | c †Haddin b Lee | 4 | 14 | 13 | 0 | 0 | 30.76 |
| 2.5 142.2 kph, edged ... and taken! Lee follows the bouncer with a full ball that begins to swing away from the batsman from around off stump. Ouma chases after it with the drive and edges to Haddin who takes a simple catch. Excellent ball after that bouncer. Full and swinging at pace. 12/1 |
 | AA Obanda | b Tait | 14 | 20 | 10 | 0 | 2 | 140.00 |
| 3.6 137.3 kph, bowled him! Tait bowls a fast full toss. That was there to be hit and Obanda wanted to send it over the leg-side boundary. He missed it though and the ball crashed into middle stump 21/2 |
| CO Obuya | not out | 98 | 199 | 129 | 9 | 3 | 75.96 |
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| DO Obuya | run out (Hussey/†Haddin) | 12 | 27 | 16 | 2 | 0 | 75.00 |
| 9.4 from Johnson, there's a mix-up between the brothers and David Obuya is run out. David pushed the ball off his hips towards midwicket and sprinted for the run. Collins, perhaps seeing that Hussey was sprinting towards the ball from square leg with no signs of hamstring trouble, did not want the run. David kept coming and by the time he stopped and turned, Hussey had reached the ball. his throw to Haddin was good and David had to go. 46/3 |
| T Mishra | run out (Clarke) | 72 | 92 | 89 | 8 | 1 | 80.89 |
| 35.3 Watson to CO Obuya, tragic way to go, Mishra is run out. It was perhaps the only way Australia were going to strike. Obuya dabbed the ball towards backward point and the batsmen decided to take on Clarke. Bad move. He swooped on the ball and hit the stumps direct at the striker's end. Well played Mishra, an innings ended by a bad decision to run. He's made his highest ODI score today. 161/4 |
| TM Odoyo | b Tait | 35 | 59 | 38 | 4 | 1 | 92.10 |
| 47.3 148.1 kph, bowled him, middle stump lies flat. Odoyo backs away to swing, Tait bowls a full and straight ball. It beat Odoyo for pace and uprooted middle stump 247/5 |
| RR Patel | run out (Krejza/Tait) | 6 | 10 | 7 | 1 | 0 | 85.71 |
| 49.4 Tait to CO Obuya, hit straight back down to long-on and Obuya runs back for the second. But the throw from the deep is good and Tait, even though he took an age to remove the bails, does it in the nick of time to run out Patel. Only one for Obuya, who has the strike though 263/6 |
| JK Kamande* | not out | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | - |
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| Extras | (b 2, lb 6, w 12, nb 3) | 23 |
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| Total | (6 wickets; 50 overs; 214 mins) | 264 | (5.28 runs per over) |
| Did not bat NN Odhiambo, E Otieno, JO Ngoche |
| Fall of wickets1-12 (Ouma, 2.5 ov), 2-21 (Obanda, 3.6 ov), 3-46 (DO Obuya, 9.4 ov), 4-161 (Mishra, 35.3 ov), 5-247 (Odoyo, 47.3 ov), 6-263 (Patel, 49.4 ov) |
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| B Lee | 8 | 1 | 26 | 1 | 3.25 |
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| 2.5 to Ouma, 142.2 kph, edged ... and taken! Lee follows the bouncer with a full ball that begins to swing away from the batsman from around off stump. Ouma chases after it with the drive and edges to Haddin who takes a simple catch. Excellent ball after that bouncer. Full and swinging at pace. 12/1 |
| SW Tait | 8 | 0 | 49 | 2 | 6.12 | (2nb, 5w) |
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| 3.6 to Obanda, 137.3 kph, bowled him! Tait bowls a fast full toss. That was there to be hit and Obanda wanted to send it over the leg-side boundary. He missed it though and the ball crashed into middle stump 21/2 47.3 to Odoyo, 148.1 kph, bowled him, middle stump lies flat. Odoyo backs away to swing, Tait bowls a full and straight ball. It beat Odoyo for pace and uprooted middle stump 247/5 |
| MG Johnson | 8 | 1 | 40 | 0 | 5.00 | (2w) |
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| SPD Smith | 6 | 0 | 36 | 0 | 6.00 |
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| JJ Krejza | 8 | 0 | 36 | 0 | 4.50 |
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| MJ Clarke | 5 | 0 | 21 | 0 | 4.20 |
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| SR Watson | 7 | 0 | 48 | 0 | 6.85 |
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