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| Ross Taylor |
(TOI)
PALLEKELE (Sri Lanka). Ross Taylor celebrated his 27th birthday with a career-best unbeaten 131 to help New Zealand beat Pakistan by an emphatic 110-run margin at Pallekele stadium on Tuesday.
Taylor benefitted from two let-offs by wicket-keeper Kamran Akmal to guide New Zealand to an imposing 302-7 before Tim Southee (3-25) restricted Pakistan to 192 in the World Cup Group A match at the newly-built stadium.
Pakistan lost wickets at regular intervals and suffered their second biggest World Cup defeat, leaving a packed 30,000 crowd disappointed.
Scott Styris (2-17), Nathan McCullum (2-28) and Kyle Mills (2-43) also chipped in with useful bowling to halt Pakistan's unbeaten progress in the tournament.
The win gave New Zealand -- six points from four matches -- top position in Group A on a better run-rate.
Pakistan also have six points from four matches, followed by Sri Lanka (five from four) and Australia (five from three).
Abdul Razzaq (62), Umar Akmal (38) and Umar Gul (34 not out) put up some resistance.
But it was never threatening for New Zealand who didn't miss skipper Daniel Vettori, who was forced to leave the field after injuring his knee.
Pakistan's worst World Cup defeat was by 112 runs, against England at Cape Town in 2003.
Razzaq, when he reached 22, became the fourth player behind Sanath Jayasuriya, Shahid Afridi and Jacques Kallis to score 5000 runs and take 250 wickets in ODIs.
But it was Taylor's day as he hit eight boundaries and seven sixes during his 124-ball knock, peaking in the final 10 overs in which New Zealand collected 139 runs -- 100 in last five.
Taylor could have been out for nought, had Akmal not missed a regulation edge in paceman Shoaib Akhtar's second spell.
He also dropped Taylor in the same Akhtar over when he had made just eight.
Taylor made the most of his good fortune and ran riot in the 47th over of the innings, hitting Akhtar for two boundaries and three sixes -- 28 runs in all -- to reach his first World Cup hundred off 117 deliveries.
He then hit two boundaries and three sixes to take 30 off Abdul Razzaq's 49th over.
Taylor added a blistering 85 for the seventh wicket with Jacob Oram (25 off just nine balls, with three sixes and a boundary) off just 22 balls to punish a hapless Pakistan bowling attack.
Taylor's previous best of 128 not out came against Sri Lanka at Napier in 2006.
This was his first ODI hundred since his three-figure knock in Bangladesh in October 2008.
Taylor added 57 for the third wicket with Martin Guptill (57) and 62 for the fifth wicket with Scott Styris (28).
Pakistan, who opened the bowling with left-arm spinner Abdur Rehman -- the first time they opened with a spinner since April 1998 -- got dangerous Brendon McCullum in the first over, bowled by Akhtar for six.
Gul, the pick of Pakistan bowlers with 3-32, dismissed Jamie How (four) to make it 55-2, leaving the repair work to Taylor and Guptill.
Akhtar conceded 70 in his nine overs, while Razzaq was clobbered for 49 in four.
Pakistan next face Zimbabwe here on Monday, while New Zealand travel to Mumbai to face Canada (March 13) and Sri Lanka (March 18) in their last two matches.
Pakistan wrap-up their group matches against defending champions Australia in Colombo on March 19
Teams:
New Zealand : Daniel Vettori (captain), Brendon McCullum (wicketkeeper), Marton Guptill, Jamie How, Ross Taylor, James Franklin, Scott Styris, Niall McCullum, Kyle Mills, Tim Southee, Jacob Oram.
Pakistan: Shahid Afridi (captain), Mohammad Hafeez, Ahmed Shehzad, Kamran Akmal (wicketkeeper), Younis Khan, Misbah-ul-Haq, Umar Akmal, Abdul Razzaq, Abdur Rehman, Umar Gul, Shoaib Akhtar.
Umpires: Daryl Harper (Aus) and Nigel Llong (Eng)
Third Umpire: Ian Gould (NZ)
Match Referee: Chris Broad (Eng).
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| New Zealand innings (50 overs maximum) | R | B | 4s | 6s | SR |
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| MJ Guptill | b Shahid Afridi | 57 | 86 | 6 | 0 | 66.27 |
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| 28.5 wicket No. 15 for Afridi, he adopts his regulation celebratory pose with both arms outstretched, it was a flighted and full ball, Guptill moved forward and wanted to whip it to the leg side, he misses the straight delivery and is bowled, an annoyed Guptill walks off 112/3
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| BB McCullum† | b Shoaib Akhtar | 6 | 3 | 0 | 1 | 200.00 |
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| 0.4 139.3 kph, the aeroplane takes off early at Pallekele, Shoaib goes through Brendon with a peach that pitches way outside off, he goes out to push at it, but to his horror it comes back a long way, and hits off stump, kept a bit low, and there was a mile-long gap between bat and pad, Baz just went pushing at it from the crease almost 8/1
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| JM How | lbw b Umar Gul | 4 | 29 | 0 | 0 | 13.79 |
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| 12.3 147.2 kph, Gul ends How's misery finally after threatening to do so before, gets one spot on, full and hurrying on to the stumps with the angle, in the rut that How is in, no way he was going to hit that one, struck on the pads, and Gul's persistent appeal gets a positive decision from the umpire for Pakistan, How doesn't bother to review, was there an inside edge? there was a sound, it was also hitting middle of middle 55/2
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| LRPL Taylor | not out | 131 | 124 | 8 | 7 | 105.64 |
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| JEC Franklin | lbw b Mohammad Hafeez | 1 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 50.00 |
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| 29.1 91.0 kph, review time, Hafeez raps Franklin on the pads and on-field umpire Harper says that's out after a long long time, a tossed up delivery from round the wicket that pitched outside off, and turned in towards Franklin, who plays outside the line of that one, is struck on the pads around off and that was going on to hit middle, Taylor asks Franklin to review that, no use, Franklin's on his way 113/4
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| SB Styris | lbw b Umar Gul | 28 | 37 | 1 | 0 | 75.67 |
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| 41.6 142.3 kph, Gul has his man now, bowled it very full on the stumps, Scott went walking across the stumps towards the off side this time, all over the place really, missed on the flick across the line, and umpire Harper thought for a while before sending Styris on his way, they think about a review but decide against it, that would have taken out middle and leg 175/5
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| NL McCullum | b Umar Gul | 19 | 10 | 1 | 2 | 190.00 |
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| 45.5 104.9 kph, Gul gets him now, it is the slower one, Nathan did not pick it, went for the heave and inside edged the ball on to the stumps, the off bail is removed, that's all Gull needs as he sets off in celebration 210/6
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| JDP Oram | c Umar Gul b Abdur Rehman | 25 | 9 | 1 | 3 | 277.77 |
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| 49.3 88.8 kph, Oram departs now, it doesn't matter, he has played his part, went for another maximum over long on, but this time it wasn't monstrous enough, and settled into the fielder's hands 295/7
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| KD Mills | not out | 7 | 3 | 1 | 0 | 233.33 |
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| Extras | (lb 10, w 11, nb 3) | 24 |
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| Total | (7 wickets; 50 overs) | 302 | (6.04 runs per over) |
| Did not bat DL Vettori*, TG Southee |
| Fall of wickets1-8 (BB McCullum, 0.4 ov), 2-55 (How, 12.3 ov), 3-112 (Guptill, 28.5 ov), 4-113 (Franklin, 29.1 ov), 5-175 (Styris, 41.6 ov), 6-210 (NL McCullum, 45.5 ov), 7-295 (Oram, 49.3 ov) |
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| Shoaib Akhtar | 9 | 0 | 70 | 1 | 7.77 | (3nb, 3w) |
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| 0.4 to BB McCullum, 139.3 kph, the aeroplane takes off early at Pallekele, Shoaib goes through Brendon with a peach that pitches way outside off, he goes out to push at it, but to his horror it comes back a long way, and hits off stump, kept a bit low, and there was a mile-long gap between bat and pad, Baz just went pushing at it from the crease almost 8/1
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| Abdur Rehman | 10 | 0 | 60 | 1 | 6.00 | (1w) |
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| 49.3 to Oram, 88.8 kph, Oram departs now, it doesn't matter, he has played his part, went for another maximum over long on, but this time it wasn't monstrous enough, and settled into the fielder's hands 295/7
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| Umar Gul | 10 | 1 | 32 | 3 | 3.20 | (2w) |
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| 12.3 to How, 147.2 kph, Gul ends How's misery finally after threatening to do so before, gets one spot on, full and hurrying on to the stumps with the angle, in the rut that How is in, no way he was going to hit that one, struck on the pads, and Gul's persistent appeal gets a positive decision from the umpire for Pakistan, How doesn't bother to review, was there an inside edge? there was a sound, it was also hitting middle of middle 55/2
41.6 to Styris, 142.3 kph, Gul has his man now, bowled it very full on the stumps, Scott went walking across the stumps towards the off side this time, all over the place really, missed on the flick across the line, and umpire Harper thought for a while before sending Styris on his way, they think about a review but decide against it, that would have taken out middle and leg 175/5
45.5 to NL McCullum, 104.9 kph, Gul gets him now, it is the slower one, Nathan did not pick it, went for the heave and inside edged the ball on to the stumps, the off bail is removed, that's all Gull needs as he sets off in celebration 210/6
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| Abdul Razzaq | 4 | 0 | 49 | 0 | 12.25 | (4w) |
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| Shahid Afridi | 10 | 0 | 55 | 1 | 5.50 |
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| 28.5 to Guptill, wicket No. 15 for Afridi, he adopts his regulation celebratory pose with both arms outstretched, it was a flighted and full ball, Guptill moved forward and wanted to whip it to the leg side, he misses the straight delivery and is bowled, an annoyed Guptill walks off 112/3
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| Mohammad Hafeez | 7 | 0 | 26 | 1 | 3.71 | (1w) |
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| 29.1 to Franklin, 91.0 kph, review time, Hafeez raps Franklin on the pads and on-field umpire Harper says that's out after a long long time, a tossed up delivery from round the wicket that pitched outside off, and turned in towards Franklin, who plays outside the line of that one, is struck on the pads around off and that was going on to hit middle, Taylor asks Franklin to review that, no use, Franklin's on his way 113/4
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| Pakistan innings (target: 303 runs from 50 overs) | R | B | 4s | 6s | SR |
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| Mohammad Hafeez | lbw b Southee | 5 | 6 | 1 | 0 | 83.33 |
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| 1.2 137.2 kph, more bad news for Pakistan, Southee has struck, hang on, Hafeez is reviewing the lbw, it was pitching on off, short of length ball, hits Hafeez, who is stuck on the crease, on the knee roll, he was looking to work that to square leg, umpire Llong raises the finger, Hafeez has a long chat with Shehzad before going for the review, it may have just shaved leg stump, that decision is left to the on-field umpire, so Hafeez is gone, 5/1
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| Ahmed Shehzad | lbw b Mills | 10 | 16 | 1 | 0 | 62.50 |
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| 6.1 Mills has got the wicket his bowling seemed on the verge of getting, once more the batsman looking to work the ball square on the leg side, a short of length ball heading for middle and off, hit just above the knee roll, Shehzad wonders about the referral, but with Pakistan having already used one up, he walks off, Pakistan are two down 23/2
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| Kamran Akmal† | c Taylor b Southee | 8 | 16 | 1 | 0 | 50.00 |
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| 7.1 137.6 kph, make that four down, Ross Taylor does not return the favour to Kamran Akmal, what an ingrate, a length ball around off, Kamran looking to work the ball to leg, the outside edge flies low to first slip, Taylor wants nothing to spoil his birthday bonanza, he clasps that one and New Zealand are in dreamland 23/4
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| Younis Khan | b Mills | 0 | 3 | 0 | 0 | 0.00 |
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| 6.4 132.5 kph, bowled him, New Zealand can do little wrong here, Mills sets off on a delighted run after getting through Younis' defences, that one didn't swing away after pitching on a length, Younis plays outside the line and the offstump is on the ground, Pakistan in tatters here 23/3
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| Misbah-ul-Haq | c Styris b Southee | 7 | 31 | 0 | 0 | 22.58 |
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| 14.4 133.8 kph, there's the fifth, Pakistan have lost their middle-order rock, once more the batsman was looking to play to leg, a length ball that takes the edge and flies to gully, where Styris takes a low catch 45/5
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| Umar Akmal | c Oram b NL McCullum | 38 | 58 | 3 | 0 | 65.51 |
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| 28.3 87.9 kph, Umar gives it away, he was itching to take on the spinner, got a shortish one and went for the pull, but it was a touch quicker and he was late on the shot, and got it high in the air, it took a while in coming down, and settled neatly in to the hands of deep midwicket who was quite some way in from the boundary 102/7
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| Shahid Afridi* | b Oram | 17 | 9 | 2 | 1 | 188.88 |
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| 17.1 129.8 kph, Afridi departs, Oram gets one to angle in from over the stumps on a length, nothing superlative about the ball, just that he played inside the line, and it crashed in to the middle stump, sliding downhill faster than an avalanche are Pakistan 66/6
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| Abdul Razzaq | c Oram b Styris | 62 | 74 | 9 | 0 | 83.78 |
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| 41.1 125.4 kph, Styris has struck, Razzaq was looking for the Hollywood hit over long-on, can't get hold of it and it balloons in the air towards Oram at long-on, Pakistan lose their ninth 191/9
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| Abdur Rehman | lbw b NL McCullum | 1 | 10 | 0 | 0 | 10.00 |
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| 32.4 There is a review now, Harper has raised the finger for an lbw appeal, both McCullums jump up and down in appeal, length ball pitching outside off, hit him on off and was going on to hit middle, Rehman falls, Pakistan have no more reviews 125/8
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| Umar Gul | not out | 34 | 25 | 3 | 1 | 136.00 |
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| Shoaib Akhtar | c NL McCullum b Styris | 0 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 0.00 |
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| 41.4 128.1 kph, game over, Shoaib lasted all of two balls, another short one from Styris, Shoaib flails at it and gets a top edge that flies towards mid-on, Nathan McCullum gets across and takes a smart catch, and New Zealand get their third win of the tournament 192/10
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| Extras | (lb 6, w 4) | 10 |
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| Total | (all out; 41.4 overs) | 192 | (4.60 runs per over) |
| Fall of wickets1-5 (Mohammad Hafeez, 1.2 ov), 2-23 (Ahmed Shehzad, 6.1 ov), 3-23 (Younis Khan, 6.4 ov), 4-23 (Kamran Akmal, 7.1 ov), 5-45 (Misbah-ul-Haq, 14.4 ov), 6-66 (Shahid Afridi, 17.1 ov), 7-102 (Umar Akmal, 28.3 ov), 8-125 (Abdur Rehman, 32.4 ov), 9-191 (Abdul Razzaq, 41.1 ov), 10-192 (Shoaib Akhtar, 41.4 ov) |
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| KD Mills | 8 | 1 | 43 | 2 | 5.37 |
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| 6.1 to Ahmed Shehzad, Mills has got the wicket his bowling seemed on the verge of getting, once more the batsman looking to work the ball square on the leg side, a short of length ball heading for middle and off, hit just above the knee roll, Shehzad wonders about the referral, but with Pakistan having already used one up, he walks off, Pakistan are two down 23/2
6.4 to Younis Khan, 132.5 kph, bowled him, New Zealand can do little wrong here, Mills sets off on a delighted run after getting through Younis' defences, that one didn't swing away after pitching on a length, Younis plays outside the line and the offstump is on the ground, Pakistan in tatters here 23/3
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| TG Southee | 8 | 1 | 25 | 3 | 3.12 |
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| 1.2 to Mohammad Hafeez, 137.2 kph, more bad news for Pakistan, Southee has struck, hang on, Hafeez is reviewing the lbw, it was pitching on off, short of length ball, hits Hafeez, who is stuck on the crease, on the knee roll, he was looking to work that to square leg, umpire Llong raises the finger, Hafeez has a long chat with Shehzad before going for the review, it may have just shaved leg stump, that decision is left to the on-field umpire, so Hafeez is gone, 5/1
7.1 to Kamran Akmal, 137.6 kph, make that four down, Ross Taylor does not return the favour to Kamran Akmal, what an ingrate, a length ball around off, Kamran looking to work the ball to leg, the outside edge flies low to first slip, Taylor wants nothing to spoil his birthday bonanza, he clasps that one and New Zealand are in dreamland 23/4
14.4 to Misbah-ul-Haq, 133.8 kph, there's the fifth, Pakistan have lost their middle-order rock, once more the batsman was looking to play to leg, a length ball that takes the edge and flies to gully, where Styris takes a low catch 45/5
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| JDP Oram | 10 | 1 | 47 | 1 | 4.70 |
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| 17.1 to Shahid Afridi, 129.8 kph, Afridi departs, Oram gets one to angle in from over the stumps on a length, nothing superlative about the ball, just that he played inside the line, and it crashed in to the middle stump, sliding downhill faster than an avalanche are Pakistan 66/6
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| JEC Franklin | 5 | 0 | 26 | 0 | 5.20 |
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| NL McCullum | 6 | 0 | 28 | 2 | 4.66 | (1w) |
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| 28.3 to Umar Akmal, 87.9 kph, Umar gives it away, he was itching to take on the spinner, got a shortish one and went for the pull, but it was a touch quicker and he was late on the shot, and got it high in the air, it took a while in coming down, and settled neatly in to the hands of deep midwicket who was quite some way in from the boundary 102/7
32.4 to Abdur Rehman, There is a review now, Harper has raised the finger for an lbw appeal, both McCullums jump up and down in appeal, length ball pitching outside off, hit him on off and was going on to hit middle, Rehman falls, Pakistan have no more reviews 125/8
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| SB Styris | 4.4 | 0 | 17 | 2 | 3.64 |
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