New Zealand beat Zimbabwe convincingly by 10 wickets in ICC World Cup
It was yet another one sided match of the ICC World Cup, 2011 as New Zealand beat Zimbabwe by 10 wickets at the Sardar Patel Stadium in Ahmadabad.
Kiwis needed a big win to lift themselves after a loss against http://www.senore.com/Cricket/Zimbabwe-c3045, batting first, put a meager 162 total for the Black Cap: the Kiwis chased it down without losing a single wicket.
Zimbabwe won the toss and elected to bat first; Brendon http://www.senore.com/Cricket/Taylor-c92915 and Charles Coventry opened the batting. Coventry, who has the 2nd highest score in ODI cricket of 194, did not even get off the mark as he was run out while going for a quick single.
http://www.senore.com/Cricket/Tatenda-Taibu-c92882, the former captain, walked in at Number 3. He added 25 runs for the 2nd wicket with Taylor before being dismissed for 8 runs, out LBW to Tim Southee.
Craig Ervine was the next man in. Brendon Taylor was the only man who looked assured of himself and played a few delightful cover drives. Ervine tried to play couple of shots over the top to get two boundaries, but he slashed at one hard and was caught
by Jesse Ryder off the bowling of Kyle http://www.senore.com/Cricket/Mills-c76321 for 11 runs.
Next man in was http://www.senore.com/Cricket/Elton-Chigumbura-c55937, the all rounder did not last long and was out LBW to Daniel Vettori for just 1 run. Wickets kept tumbling at one end as Taylor continued to fight a lone battle on the other. Regis Chakabva was the next man in and was dismissed
for a duck. He was caught by Ross Taylor off the bowling of Daniel Vettori. Greg Lamb joined Taylor in the middle, and the two added some valuable runs for the 6th wicket. Taylor was dismissed 6 runs short of his half century; he scored 44 from
57 balls with 4 boundaries.
Lamb fell soon for 18 runs, run out while going for a needless second run. http://www.senore.com/Cricket/Prosper-Utseya-c82728 and Graeme Cremer put together a valuable stand and gave Zimbabwe’s total some respectability. Cremer was dismissed for 22 runs from 43 balls with 1 boundary. Utseya
was the last man to be dismissed as Zimbabwe folded for 162 runs. Kyle Mills and Daniel Vettori got 2 wickets each, while Tim Southee got 3 scalps.
http://www.senore.com/Cricket/New-Zealand-c754 openers Brendon McCullum and Martin Guptill started the small chase in a positive manner. The two Kiwi batsmen knew that the target was not much and after playing some big shots early on, settled down.
New Zealand got home in the 34th over with all 10 wickets intact. Brendon McCullum was 76 not out from 95 balls with 6 fours and 2 sixes, while Martin Guptill was unbeaten on 86 from 108 with 7 fours and 2 sixes.
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