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Chennai:
Minnows Kenya sank without a trace in the hallowed turf of the
M.A. Chidambaram Stadium as New Zealand warmed up nicely for their
ICC Cricket World Cup campaign with a 10-wicket win in a Group A
fixture here Sunday.
The Kenyans collapsed to 69 all out in just 23.5 overs as the
Black Caps seamers Hamish Bennett (4/16), Jacob Oram (3/2) and Tim
Southee (3/13) struck telling blows. The Kiwis then wasted little
time in knocking off the runs as they made 72 for no loss in eight
overs.
It was Kenya's lowest total in the World Cup after the 104 against
the West Indies in the 2003 edition. Their batsmen appeared
clueless on a pitch that offered good bounce which the tall Kiwi
seamers exploited to the hilt.
The 23-year old Bennett, in only his second year of international
cricket, broke the back of the Kenya line-up with a 10-ball burst
that saw him take four wickets to set up the Kiwi victory.
Fittingly, he was adjudged Man of the Match.
Following up on him were Oram, who snapped up three wickets in 17
balls, while Southee, into his second spell, picked up two more
off consecutive deliveries that left him on a hat-trick going into
the next game.
While Bennett generated good pace and troubled the batsmen with
his in-coming deliveries, Southee and Oram stuck to the basics of
line and length.
The Kenyan batsmen struggled to get going and the first boundary
of their innings came only in the eighth over, for such was the
grip the Black Caps maintained.
Seren Waters (16), Collins Obuya (14) and Rakep Patel (16 not out)
were the three players who could get to double figures, while
extras added 10.
In reply, the Kiwi openers Martin Guptill (39 not out) and Brendon
McCullum (26 not out) made light of the Kenyan bowling that at
best was enthusiastic but had little substance as the match
concluded in a mere two hours, 24 minutes.
New Zealand now travel to Nagpur for their next game against
Australia (Feb 25) while Kenya fly out to Sri Lanka to take on
Pakistan, Feb 23.
Scoreboard
The following is the scoreboard the
Group A World Cup match between Kenya and New Zealand at the M.A.
Chidambaram Stadium here Sunday.
Kenya:
Alex Obanda lbw Southee 6
Seren Waters lbw Bennett 16
Collins Obuya lbw Bennett 14
Steve Tikolo b Bennett 2
Maurice Ouma lbw Bennett 1
Rakep Patel not out 16
Jimmy Kamande c Brendan b Oram 2
Thomas Odoyo c Ryder b Oram 2
Nehemiah Odhiambo b Southee 0
Shem Ngoche lbw Southee 0
Elijah Otieno c Styris b Oram 0
Extras (b 4, lb 3, w 2, nb 1) 10
Total (all out in 23.5 overs) 69
Fall of wickets: 1-14 (Obanda, 6.6 overs), 2-40 (Waters, 11.6),
3-42 (Tikolo, 13.2), 4-44 (Obuya, 13.5), 5-49 (Ouma, 15.3), 6-59 (Kamande,
19.5), 7-63 (Odoyo, 21.3), 8-68 (Odhiambo, 22.5), 9-68 (Ngoche,
22.6), 10-69 (Otieno, 23.5)
Bowling:
Tim Southee 6-0-13-3
Nathan McCullum 4-0-15-0
Hamish Bennett 5-0-16-4
Daniel Vettori 6-1-16-0
Jacob Oram 2.5-1-2-3
New Zealand:
Martin Guptill not out 39
Brendan McCullum not out 26
Extras (b 2, lb 1, w 3, nb 1) 7
Total (for no loss in eight overs) 72
Bowling:
Thomas Odoyo 3-0-25-0
Elijah Otieno 2-0-18-0
Jimmy Kamande 2-0-21-0
Nehemiah Odhiambo 1-0-5-0
Toss: Kenya and chose to bat
Result: New Zealand won by 10 wickets
Player of the match: Hamish Bennett (New Zealand)
Umpires: Marias Erasmus (South Africa) and Rod Tucker (Australia)
TV umpire: Aleem Dar (Pakistan)
Match referee: Roshan Mahanama (Sri Lanka)
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