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| Brendon McCullum |
(TOI)
MUMBAI. New Zealand's in-form Ross Taylor and opener Brendon McCullum blitzed Canada on Sunday, helping to fire the Black Caps into the World Cup quarter-finals with a thumping 97-run win in Mumbai.
New Zealand scored a mammoth 358 for 6 in their 50 overs and it proved too much for the minnows, who never looked remotely like challenging the target and ended on 261-9 after their 50 overs.
Canada were in a perilous position at 4-2 before captain Ashish Bagai (84) and Jimmy Hansra (70 not out) came together to put on 125 for the fourth wicket and give the scoreboard a look of respectability.
Veteran John Davison was dismissed in bizarre fashion, run out by a direct hit from wicket-keeper Brendon McCullum as he ambled a single when he was in no danger.
Kyle Mills did the early damage for the Black Caps, dismissing Ruvindu Gunasekera and Zubin Surkari with just four runs on the board but he had to leave the field injured midway through his third over. Jacob Oram took 3-47.
Earlier, stand-in skipper Taylor came to the crease at the Wankhede Stadium in the 30th over with his side on 149-2 after a steady start and injected urgency into the innings.
In one devastating over Taylor, who smashed 131 in 124 balls against Pakistan, took 28 off Harvir Baidwan, smashing four sixes and a four.
He was caught by Hansra off the bowling of Balaji Rao for 74 off just 44 balls, including five sixes and six fours.
Brendon McCullum was the mainstay of the innings, scoring 101 in 109 balls as New Zealand had few problems with the toothless Canada attack.
Kane Williamson (34 not out) and Scott Styris (35) also joined in the onslaught, as the Canadian bowlers wilted, before a stunning cameo of 31 from James Franklin off just eight balls including three sixes and two fours.
New Zealand lashed 31 off the final over.
The pick of the bowlers for Canada was Davison, whose 10 overs of spin yielded 1-30 but they were ragged in the field, dropping catches amid the New Zealand onslaught.
Baidwan went for a whopping 84 runs in his 9.1 overs and Rizwan Cheema was thrashed for 64 off just 4.5 overs.
The victory for New Zealand, without injured skipper Daniel Vettori, takes them to top spot in Group A with eight points, one clear of Sri Lanka, the only other team who have qualified for the quarter-finals.Canada have two points after one win and four defeats.
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score card
| New Zealand innings (50 overs maximum) | R | M | B | 4s | 6s | SR |
| MJ Guptill | c †Bagai b Baidwan | 17 | 45 | 29 | 3 | 0 | 58.62 |
| 9.5 126.3 kph, Wonderful Ashish Bagai! What a keeper! He was standing up to the stumps and takes a loverly catch. Guptill got the edge on the defensive prod and Bagai moved his hands quickly to cover the deviation. Good delivery too; it landed on a good length and just about cut away a bit 53/1
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| BB McCullum† | c Gunasekera b Baidwan | 101 | 163 | 109 | 12 | 2 | 92.66 |
| 36.4 120.8 kph, Batting Powerplay has taken its first wicket. Full in length and outside off, Baz slams it straight to extra cover. Fine innings, but its over now 185/3
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| JD Ryder | c Osinde b Davison | 38 | 80 | 56 | 3 | 0 | 67.85 |
| 29.2 86.7 kph, Ryder has seen the suicide button, and pressed it with glee. A 100 for the taking against this dawdle of a Canadian attack, and he's let the opportunity go after doing the hard work. Ryder tosses it up on the off stump, Ryder gets under it and then is not sure just how hard to hit it. He plays a half-hearted chip in the end, and sends it straight to long on. He is livid, and smashes his pads on the way back. That wasn't a long boundary either. 149/2
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| LRPL Taylor* | c Hansra b Balaji Rao | 74 | 60 | 44 | 6 | 5 | 168.18 |
| 40.5 88.8 kph, Bala strikes with a lovely delivery. It was a flighted leg break on a good length around off and middle. Brave delivery. Correct delivery. Rosco goes for the big hit down the ground but the ball turns and he gets the edge. Hansra moved forward from backward point and dived forward to take a good catch. The Rosco show is over. 254/4
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| NL McCullum | c & b Balaji Rao | 10 | 30 | 9 | 2 | 0 | 111.11 |
| 42.1 74.6 kph, Balaji gives us another lovely dismissal. A flighted loopy dipping leg break that drifted towards leg, luring Nathan to try playing it to the leg and the turn forces him to get a leading edge. Balaji lunges to his right to pouch that. A classic leggie's wicket. Lovely drift there 259/5
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| KS Williamson | not out | 34 | 38 | 27 | 4 | 0 | 125.92 |
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| SB Styris | c Davison b Baidwan | 35 | 21 | 20 | 3 | 2 | 175.00 |
| 47.6 126.6 kph, Styris falls to a full toss. He swings it towards long-on where Davison moves in to take a good low catch, lunging forward 318/6
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| JEC Franklin | not out | 31 | 12 | 8 | 2 | 3 | 387.50 |
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| Extras | (b 2, lb 3, w 11, nb 2) | 18 |
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| Total | (6 wickets; 50 overs; 226 mins) | 358 | (7.16 runs per over) |
| Did not bat JDP Oram, KD Mills, TG Southee |
| Fall of wickets1-53 (Guptill, 9.5 ov), 2-149 (Ryder, 29.2 ov), 3-185 (BB McCullum, 36.4 ov), 4-254 (Taylor, 40.5 ov), 5-259 (NL McCullum, 42.1 ov), 6-318 (Styris, 47.6 ov) |
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| Khurram Chohan | 7 | 0 | 40 | 0 | 5.71 | (3w) |
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| H Osinde | 7 | 0 | 52 | 0 | 7.42 | (2w) |
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| HS Baidwan | 9.1 | 0 | 84 | 3 | 9.16 | (1w) |
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| 9.5 to Guptill, 126.3 kph, Wonderful Ashish Bagai! What a keeper! He was standing up to the stumps and takes a loverly catch. Guptill got the edge on the defensive prod and Bagai moved his hands quickly to cover the deviation. Good delivery too; it landed on a good length and just about cut away a bit 53/1
36.4 to BB McCullum, 120.8 kph, Batting Powerplay has taken its first wicket. Full in length and outside off, Baz slams it straight to extra cover. Fine innings, but its over now 185/3
47.6 to Styris, 126.6 kph, Styris falls to a full toss. He swings it towards long-on where Davison moves in to take a good low catch, lunging forward 318/6
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| Rizwan Cheema | 4.5 | 0 | 64 | 0 | 13.24 | (2nb) |
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| WD Balaji Rao | 10 | 0 | 62 | 2 | 6.20 | (1w) |
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| 40.5 to Taylor, 88.8 kph, Bala strikes with a lovely delivery. It was a flighted leg break on a good length around off and middle. Brave delivery. Correct delivery. Rosco goes for the big hit down the ground but the ball turns and he gets the edge. Hansra moved forward from backward point and dived forward to take a good catch. The Rosco show is over. 254/4
42.1 to NL McCullum, 74.6 kph, Balaji gives us another lovely dismissal. A flighted loopy dipping leg break that drifted towards leg, luring Nathan to try playing it to the leg and the turn forces him to get a leading edge. Balaji lunges to his right to pouch that. A classic leggie's wicket. Lovely drift there 259/5
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| JM Davison | 10 | 1 | 30 | 1 | 3.00 |
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| 29.2 to Ryder, 86.7 kph, Ryder has seen the suicide button, and pressed it with glee. A 100 for the taking against this dawdle of a Canadian attack, and he's let the opportunity go after doing the hard work. Ryder tosses it up on the off stump, Ryder gets under it and then is not sure just how hard to hit it. He plays a half-hearted chip in the end, and sends it straight to long on. He is livid, and smashes his pads on the way back. That wasn't a long boundary either. 149/2
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| AS Hansra | 2 | 0 | 21 | 0 | 10.50 |
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| Canada innings (target: 359 runs from 50 overs) | R | M | B | 4s | 6s | SR |
| R Gunasekera | c Taylor b Mills | 2 | 9 | 7 | 0 | 0 | 28.57 |
| 2.1 132.7 kph, Ross Taylor is here, Ross Taylor is there, Ross Taylor is almost everywhere. Full delivery, angled across looking for the outside edge that will keep the slips interested, but not this kind of an edge. Ruvindu flashes at it with furious anger and gets the healthiest of outside edges that seems set to take it over the slips and through to third man. Someone forgot to tell Rossco, jumping up with his right hand stretched up. He plucked it at it's peak as if he were reaping mango harvest. Delicious. The timing of the jump was outstanding. 2/1
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| H Patel | c †BB McCullum b Oram | 31 | 61 | 35 | 5 | 1 | 88.57 |
| 12.3 123.9 kph, Has he edged it this time? NZ review an appeal for caught behind that's been turned down. Another short one from Oram, this one just outside off and Patel again goes for a vicious pull, despite not having the room. There was a sure noise as the ball passed the bat. No other technology to aid in this review. It's eventually been given out. 50/3
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| ZE Surkari | c Taylor b Mills | 1 | 10 | 11 | 0 | 0 | 9.09 |
| 4.3 128.7 kph, Mills has another. Catching practice this time for Rossco. Not the first time Surkari has gone fishing outside off stump with an angled bat after getting half across, and that too very late. This angler hooks no salmon, no trout, no sardines, no nothing. Instead he gets Taylor. Easy catch at waist height, taken without any fuss. 4/2
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| A Bagai*† | c †BB McCullum b NL McCullum | 84 | 145 | 87 | 10 | 0 | 96.55 |
| 36.6 91.7 kph, that's the end of a fine innings from Bagai. He's succumbed to the conditions as much as the bowling. He's barely able to stand, and wanted to get to his 100 with big shots. He again backs away to the leg side, looking to whack over the off side. Thin outside edge. Bagai c McCullum b McCullum. 175/4
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| AS Hansra | not out | 70 | 140 | 105 | 4 | 1 | 66.66 |
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| Rizwan Cheema | c †BB McCullum b Oram | 2 | 5 | 4 | 0 | 0 | 50.00 |
| 38.1 120.5 kph, another one bites the dust. No fireworks from Cheema as he looks to guide a short ball on off stump to third man, and ends up guiding it too fine. Baz dives away to his right and pouches it. Very good catch, that. 179/5
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| JM Davison | run out (†BB McCullum) | 15 | 37 | 21 | 2 | 0 | 71.42 |
| 44.1 from Oram, Davison has run himself out in clumsy fashion as the Royal Canadian Air Farce carries on. He gets a yorker on the pads, glances to the leg side and then trots half the way, before deciding to walk down the pitch. The throw came in from McCullum, on the sly, and broke the stumps before he reached his crease. Sleeping tortoises would have made it. Even if they were walking backwards. Davison keeps walking to the pavilion. 213/7
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| WD Balaji Rao | c NL McCullum b Oram | 9 | 13 | 9 | 1 | 0 | 100.00 |
| 42.5 118.3 kph, Rao's holed out. Slow offcutter banged in short, he looks to biff it over midwicket and ends up playing straight to long on 205/6
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| HS Baidwan | c Franklin b Southee | 8 | 14 | 6 | 1 | 0 | 133.33 |
| 45.2 131.0 kph, Southee finally has a wicket. Rejoice if he's in your Fantasy team. Full toss on off stump, driven cleanly, but straight into mid off's hands 222/8
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| Khurram Chohan | c Taylor b Ryder | 22 | 23 | 16 | 2 | 1 | 137.50 |
| 49.4 100.9 kph, Chohan's merry ways come to an end as Ryder keeps it slightly short of driving length and Chohan holes out to cover. 261/9
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| H Osinde | not out | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | - |
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| Extras | (b 5, lb 2, w 9, nb 1) | 17 |
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| Total | (9 wickets; 50 overs; 237 mins) | 261 | (5.22 runs per over) |
| Fall of wickets1-2 (Gunasekera, 2.1 ov), 2-4 (Surkari, 4.3 ov), 3-50 (Patel, 12.3 ov), 4-175 (Bagai, 36.6 ov), 5-179 (Rizwan Cheema, 38.1 ov), 5-185* (Hansra, retired not out, 40.1 ov), 6-205 (Balaji Rao, 42.5 ov), 7-213 (Davison, 44.1 ov), 8-222 (Baidwan, 45.2 ov), 9-261 (Khurram Chohan, 49.4 ov) |
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| KD Mills | 2.4 | 1 | 2 | 2 | 0.75 |
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| 2.1 to Gunasekera, 132.7 kph, Ross Taylor is here, Ross Taylor is there, Ross Taylor is almost everywhere. Full delivery, angled across looking for the outside edge that will keep the slips interested, but not this kind of an edge. Ruvindu flashes at it with furious anger and gets the healthiest of outside edges that seems set to take it over the slips and through to third man. Someone forgot to tell Rossco, jumping up with his right hand stretched up. He plucked it at it's peak as if he were reaping mango harvest. Delicious. The timing of the jump was outstanding. 2/1
4.3 to Surkari, 128.7 kph, Mills has another. Catching practice this time for Rossco. Not the first time Surkari has gone fishing outside off stump with an angled bat after getting half across, and that too very late. This angler hooks no salmon, no trout, no sardines, no nothing. Instead he gets Taylor. Easy catch at waist height, taken without any fuss. 4/2
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| TG Southee | 10 | 1 | 36 | 1 | 3.60 | (1w) |
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| 45.2 to Baidwan, 131.0 kph, Southee finally has a wicket. Rejoice if he's in your Fantasy team. Full toss on off stump, driven cleanly, but straight into mid off's hands 222/8
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| JD Ryder | 1.2 | 0 | 15 | 1 | 11.25 | (1w) |
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| 49.4 to Khurram Chohan, 100.9 kph, Chohan's merry ways come to an end as Ryder keeps it slightly short of driving length and Chohan holes out to cover. 261/9
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| JDP Oram | 10 | 1 | 47 | 3 | 4.70 | (1w) |
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| 12.3 to Patel, 123.9 kph, Has he edged it this time? NZ review an appeal for caught behind that's been turned down. Another short one from Oram, this one just outside off and Patel again goes for a vicious pull, despite not having the room. There was a sure noise as the ball passed the bat. No other technology to aid in this review. It's eventually been given out. 50/3
38.1 to Rizwan Cheema, 120.5 kph, another one bites the dust. No fireworks from Cheema as he looks to guide a short ball on off stump to third man, and ends up guiding it too fine. Baz dives away to his right and pouches it. Very good catch, that. 179/5
42.5 to Balaji Rao, 118.3 kph, Rao's holed out. Slow offcutter banged in short, he looks to biff it over midwicket and ends up playing straight to long on 205/6
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| JEC Franklin | 4 | 0 | 31 | 0 | 7.75 | (1nb) |
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| NL McCullum | 8 | 0 | 56 | 1 | 7.00 |
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| 36.6 to Bagai, 91.7 kph, that's the end of a fine innings from Bagai. He's succumbed to the conditions as much as the bowling. He's barely able to stand, and wanted to get to his 100 with big shots. He again backs away to the leg side, looking to whack over the off side. Thin outside edge. Bagai c McCullum b McCullum. 175/4
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| SB Styris | 10 | 0 | 41 | 0 | 4.10 | (1w) |
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| KS Williamson | 4 | 0 | 26 | 0 | 6.50 | (1w) |
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