Videocon Tri-Series 2005-06
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The Videocon Tri-Series was a three-team One Day International cricket
tournament taking place in Zimbabwe
between the hosts Zimbabwe, India
and New Zealand
. It started on 24 August 2005 and ended with the final on 6 September 2005, which New Zealand won by six wickets. Zimbabwe ended the tournament without a victory against a team other than rock-bottom Bangladesh
for 35 ODI matches, since November 2003. Their last series win against a team other than Bangladesh or Kenya
was, intriguingly, against New Zealand, in the 2000-01 season. India
are still without a tournament win since March 2004, coming off an 18-run defeat by Sri Lanka
in the final of the 2005 Indian Oil Cup, while New Zealand
were comprehensively defeated 5-0 by Australia
at home in their last series before this tournament. Before that, however, they were undefeated in six tournaments. The Supersub rule, which means that a player can be substituted for another at any time, but once the player is off he can not return, was introduced for this tournament. The stand-out performances came from Indian Mohammad Kaif, who hit 277 runs and was made Man of the Series, but Yuvraj Singh
, and New Zealanders Stephen Fleming
and Lou Vincent
also passed 200 runs. On the bowling side, Shane Bond
took 11 wickets at an average
of just 8.63, despite being rested for one match, and Indian seamers Irfan Pathan
and Ajit Agarkar
also got more than 10 wickets.
, meaning that each side played four matches, for a total of six matches. A win was worth five points, and a loss zero - however, if the winning team had a run rate (i.e. runs hit per over) higher than 1.25 times that of the opponent, a bonus point was awarded to the winning side, if not it went to the losing side. In the event of a tie or a no-result, each side was to be awarded three points. The top two teams on points went through to the one-match final.
and his New Zealand
flayed a substandard Zimbabwe
to all corners as they routed their way to the third highest score of all time in One Day International cricket. Despite the match being shortened to 44 overs
a side following the discovery of a damp patch on the Bulawayo pitch, New Zealand hit runs right from the outset, and Zimbabwe did not take a wicket until the 28th over. By then, Vincent
and Stephen Fleming
had taken the score to 207 - already a fearsome total, and then you consider that 16 overs remained. No Zimbabwean bowler escaped the carnage, and it says something that debutant Anthony Ireland
recorded the best bowling figures - still conceding 52 runs in his seven overs. Andy Blignaut
, regarded as one of Zimbabwe's best bowlers, was dispatched for 96 runs - nine runs off the most expensive of all time. When the dust had settled, New Zealand had made 397 for 5 - one run short of Sri Lanka
's nine-year-old record, which was set in 50 overs
, and Brendon McCullum
had equalled the fastest fifty for New Zealand, off 21 balls
.
Zimbabwe
, naturally, could not answer this, and they were up against a much stronger bowling attack than their own. The openers Brendan Taylor
and Stuart Carlisle
survived 14 overs, scoring 62 runs, but Chris Cairns and Andre Adams
inspired a collapse to 123 for 6. At one point, Zimbabwe threatened to break the record of highest ODI defeat ever (256 runs), but 45 from Heath Streak
, including two sixes, took them past 200. Overall, 205 all out wasn't such a bad score. The problem was that they had been so utterly demolished in the first innings - and two days later, they were to meet India's
feared batting line-up, including people like Sourav Ganguly
, Rahul Dravid
and Virender Sehwag
.
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's first match against a team other than Zimbabwe
since his return from injury, and Bond returned in style to inspire yet another ODI defeat for India
. It was a match of two batting collapses, however, as Indian pacemen
Irfan Pathan
and Ashish Nehra
used the conditions well to take five wicket
s in New Zealand
first 13 overs
. Lou Vincent
, Stephen Fleming
, Nathan Astle
and Hamish Marshall
all fell for single-figure scores, and with Jacob Oram
and Craig McMillan
coming in to bat, the score was 36 for 5.
However, the two batted responsibly together, even finding the time to hit a few sixes - most of them off Harbhajan Singh
, who was carted for 55 runs in nine overs. In sixteen overs, the pair added 91 runs, and put New Zealand back on track. There were good scores from Chris Cairns, Brendon McCullum
and Daniel Vettori
too, and New Zealand put the new super sub rule to its full use and placed all-rounder Andre Adams
at number 11 in the batting order. They finished on 215 all out, McCullum holing out with a straight hit that fell short of the boundary into Rahul Dravid
's waiting hands, but his 49 turned out to be very crucial.
Then it was Shane Bond
's turn. He did not need to bat because of the substitute rule, and he came on for Nathan Astle
at the start of India's innings. Taking the new ball
, he immediately menaced the Indian captain Sourav Ganguly
with short balls. Somehow, Ganguly survived the first over, but he was shaken and fell to Bond's eighth delivery of the day - caught by the wicket-keeper
McCullum for 5. The next ball was faced by Venugopal Rao
- an inswinging yorker
that bamboozled the new batsman and slammed into his stumps, out bowled
. And Bond just continued the slaughter. After he had bowled one ball of his sixth over, he stood with five wickets to his name, having added Virender Sehwag
, Rahul Dravid
and Mohammad Kaif to his tally. Andre Adams
also took three wickets as India crashed to 44 for 8.
For a while, India looked to threaten their worst all out score in ODI cricket of 54 against Sri Lanka
, but Bond and Adams were taken off and the other bowlers just couldn't threaten. A well-paced partnership between Yadav and Pathan
in fact threatened to turn the match around, but Bond came back, breaking up the partnership with a typical fast bowler's ball outside off stump to Pathan, who edged to McCullum
behind the stumps. Four balls earlier, Bond
had dropped Pathan off his own bowling. With the end of the partnership - worth 118 runs, eight off the Indian record - that broke Yadav's resistance, and he was out attempting a lofted drive over Craig McMillan
, who could hold a simple catch to end the game.
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crawled to their fourth loss of over 100 runs in the last five matches, as they were bowled out for their third-lowest all out score in ODIs by a rampant Irfan Pathan
. It followed a promising bowling effort, as India
had been restricted to 121 for 4 after 35 overs
- Mohammad Kaif tied down, as he could only make 65 despite having faced 122 balls
. Earlier, Heath Streak
had dismissed Venugopal Rao
caught behind for a three-ball duck
.
The dismissal of Kaif, however, brought a sense of haste to the Indian side. Dhoni
slashed sixes off the youngsters Prosper Utseya
and Ireland
, needing only 39 balls to reach his fifty, which he did with a straight hit off Blignaut
over the boundary fence
for six. Trying to make another one in the very last over, he mistimed it slightly, and Blessing Mahwire
could hold the catch. Ireland
got another wicket, that of Ajit Agarkar
, and so ended with figures
of three for 54 — despite seven wides.
The Zimbabwean batting effort, however, was spineless. In the match against New Zealand earlier on in the week, they had at least managed 205, but this time they could only bat respectably for seven overs. In the eighth over, Ajit Agarkar
dismissed Vusi Sibanda
and Hamilton Masakadza
, and that started the collapse. In 10.4 overs, Zimbabwe could only muster 26 runs, and lost a total of eight wickets to crash to 43 for 9. By that time, no batsman had made it into double figures. Heath Streak
and Prosper Utseya
battled out for seven more overs, before Utseya was finally caught by Rahul Dravid
for 11, leaving Zimbabwe all out for 65. Extras
made up 13.8 % of the total score, and was the third-highest scorer, thanks to all the wides bowled by Pathan
, Nehra
and Ajit Agarkar
. Nevertheless, India had recorded a thumping victory, their highest by runs in two and a half years, but were still criticised by Cricinfo
for not showing much improvement. (Cricinfo scorecard)
suffered their third loss of the series, and although the margin of defeat was smaller, the way in which it was achieved suggested that Zimbabwean coach Kevin Curran still had a lot to work on. Admittedly, it started very well, as Streak
got Vincent
out with the third delivery of the match. Ireland
continued his happy knack of getting wickets, getting the opposing skipper
Stephen Fleming
for 23 and Hamish Marshall
for 7, as New Zealand struggled to 67 for 4.
However, Scott Styris
and Astle
fought back well. Styris made 63, relying on nurdling the singles into the leg side
, as he only hit ten runs in boundaries. However, he held the innings together twice. The first time was in his 62-run partnership with Astle. Then, when both Oram
and McCullum
deserted him within six overs and the scoreboard showd 149 for 7, he remained calm. His partnership with Vettori
carried New Zealand past 200, Vettori joining Styris in nurdling the ball - his 47 runs included only 12 in boundaries. Andy Blignaut
then got three wickets with five balls as New Zealand were bowled out for 238.
However, Bond
and Kyle Mills
tied down the Zimbabwean batting effectively. After eight overs, Brendan Taylor
and debutant Justice Chibhabha
had both been caught by wicket-keeper McCullum, and the score was eight for 2. Sibanda
played himself in, however, and looked to go on when he attempted a difficult second run and was run out for 21. The Zimbabwean batsmen just couldn't hit out at all, and by the end of the 35th over, they were 93 for 6 - having just seen Heath Streak
out for 18, two balls after he had hit a thumping drive for six.
Needing 146 runs to win from 90 balls, Zimbabwe just went for the hit. Charles Coventry
smashed two straight sixes, before top edging to the keeper for 35. Andy Blignaut
also hit sixes, getting a 44-ball fifty, but the next two balls did not give any runs and he was caught at the boundary by Astle
. The batsmen had crossed, so Blessing Mahwire
- on 8 - faced the last ball of Bond's
over, and duly mistimed a drive to Oram
to complete the 27-run defeat.
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and Daniel Vettori
. Nehra and Pathan, India's opening bowlers, were taken for runs early on as they sought for wickets but the openers Fleming and Astle escaped, adding 44 in the first 10 overs before Fleming let himself loose with a couple of aerial shots on the off side to take ten off an over from Pathan. Agarkar, who had come on for Nehra earlier, then had Astle caught behind for 11, but Vincent and Fleming continued to punish the bowling, and by the end of 15 overs they were 81 for 1 - Nehra having conceded 35 in five overs. However, once again Agarkar was responsible for a breakthrough, running out
Fleming with a good throw after having picked up the ball in his follow-through.
Another run out three overs later saw Vincent back in the pavilion, having added 37, before Hamish Marshall was bowled through the gate for 8 by Yadav, and all of a sudden New Zealand were 115 for 4, and patience was required from Styris and McMillan. They played that role well, only hitting 16 runs in boundaries between them yet adding 87 together, setting the stage for hard hitting from wicket-keeper McCullum
. Styris, once again, was the highest scorer of the New Zealand innings. After playing himself in, McCullum first hit a six off Agarkar to end the 44th over, before unleashing himself in the 46th. He was caught off a no-ball and dropped off the next delivery, and then smashed the remaining five balls for eighteen, with three fours and one six. Having added 28 in total, he then was caught by Kaif, but the pace was set. New Zealand notched up 31 runs in the final three overs, not bothering much with the loss of wickets, and ended with 278 for 9.
However, India quickly showed their intent. As Andre Adams
pitched it short outside the off stump, Virender Sehwag
feasted, smashing sixteen off one over, and taking only 34 balls for his 45 before dragging a ball from Oram into his own stumps. With the other opener, Sourav Ganguly
, having made 19, India had made a solid start, with 75 runs coming off 50 deliveries. Rahul Dravid
and Mohammad Kaif came to the crease, and the pair slowed down the run rate somewhat, but still hit plenty of boundaries when opportunities arose, keeping the required rate around 5. New Zealand's bowlers tried to apply pressure, but only Scott Styris
managed to do so with any consistency, bowling nine overs in a spell before his last over yielded 10 runs - which prompted Fleming to bring on spinner Jeetan Patel
. Dhoni
came on a few overs earlier as Yuvraj
was out for 22, and the big-hitting wicket-keeper punished Patel with two straight sixes to bring the equation from 19 off 22 to 7 off 20. Dhoni then ended the match with six runs off the balls from Andre Adams, who conceded 67 runs in total, to see India into the final and make the last match with Zimbabwe academic.
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Zimbabwe lost this match in the first three and the last ten overs, fighting well for the other 85. They lost Sibanda and Masakadza in the third over to the left-arm seamer R. P. Singh, who celebrated his ODI debut with two wickets in his second over, and Ajit Agarkar
tied down the other end with accurate outswing. However, Brendan Taylor and Tatenda Taibu fought back with boundaries through the third man and point regions, building a partnership of 46 for the third wicket before Yuvraj Singh was responsible for his third run out of the tournament, forcing down the stumps at the striker's end with a well-timed throw.
Zimbabwe, however, still had their captain Taibu in, and joined by the hard-hitting Coventry he set out to give Zimbabwe a competitive score. The pair batted responsibly, yet did not stay away from punishing the balls delivered on an errant length, and in 11 overs the pair added 60 runs as Zimbabwe moved to 110 for 3 at the halfway mark, with Taibu on 51. Sourav Ganguly even brought himself on to stop the Zimbabwean onslaught, but after delivering two no-balls and a wide and conceding 24 runs in four overs he wisely left bowling to the specialists. Yadav got smashed early on, but recovered well to bowl a maiden over and take the wicket of Taibu for 71. However, that brought the hard-hitting Blignaut to the crease, and he and Coventry attacked the bowlers with venom. Coventry had a particular love for Murali Kartik
, whom he took for one six and one four in an over, before finally hitting one lofted straight shot too much, and Kartik could hold the catch - gone for 74, his first ODI fifty. The partnership of Coventry and Blignaut had added 61 from 49 deliveries.
The last five overs were not quite as productive, however, with Agarkar keeping the run rate down and taking wickets in the process, but Zimbabwe still set a target of 251. Sehwag and Ganguly opened for India, and Sehwag started in typical fashion, taking boundaries off both Mahwire and Ireland, but Mahwire got one onto his stumps as he was bowled for 12. Things quickly went from bad to worse for India, with skipper Ganguly edging to Vusi Sibanda
for 2, before Rahul Dravid
and Mohammad Kaif were dismissed in successive overs. India used their super sub, bringing on Venugopal Rao for R. P. Singh, and Venugopal and Yuvraj Singh took some early hits off Blignaut and Ireland to calm the jitters. Nevertheless, by the end of the 20 power play
overs India were 82 for 4, needing 169 to win off the remaining 30 overs.
At the end of the powerplay overs, Taibu brought on his spinners Gavin Ewing
and Prosper Utseya
, and the two frustrated the Indian batsmen, only giving up eight runs in four overs. With the required run rate ballooning, India needed singles, and Keith Dabengwa
could run out the non-striker Venugopal Rao with a direct hit as Rao attempted the single while Yuvraj stood his ground. Dhoni, coming in at seven, kept his head cool against the spinners in the remaining overs, though, as he was tied down by Sean Williams
and Dabengwa. However, in the 39th over he unleashed himself, taking a six and a four off Sean Williams as he quickly moved to 42. Yuvraj also hit plenty of runs, as the Zimbabwean seamers were smashed around the ground, and his 120 eventually secured victory - even though he was caught by Dabengwa off Blignaut. It didn't matter. India needed six from the last three overs, but only hit one off the third to last, before Dhoni got to face Mahwire and promptly smashed the last ball for six to win the game for India.
(Cricinfo scorecard)
lost yet another ODI final, their fifth successive loss and their eighth without a victory, as they went down to New Zealand
in Harare. And yet again, they threw away a very promising start. Batting first after Sourav Ganguly won the toss, the returning Shane Bond and Kyle Mills kept them down for the first two overs, bowling an accurate line as the score moved to five for no loss. Sehwag and Ganguly eventually found their feet, though, and after thirteen overs they had added 72 runs, despite being beaten time and again. Jacob Oram conceded fifteen runs off his first eleven deliveries, but Ganguly holed out as he was caught by Hamish Marshall. At 72 for 1, India were well in control, and Mohammad Kaif started to accumulate with Sehwag. Boundaries came with regularity, as India moved past 100 and then past 150 without losing a wicket. At 153 for 1 after 24 overs, they were genuinely looking at a chance to get 300.
Sehwag, however, was caught by Lou Vincent for 75, and that started a flurry of wickets for New Zealand. Rahul Dravid, who had had a poor series with only 64 runs in four innings, continued on that vein of form as he was deceived by a quick arm ball
from Daniel Vettori for a two-ball 0 - Vettori's second wicket of the innings. Astle, Mills and Vettori tied down the batsmen, as no boundaries were given up in the next eight overs, and Yuvraj felt like he had to attack. He got away with a lofted shot through midwicket for four on the second ball of a Mills over, but shortly afterwards he had a feel at a short ball which landed in Shane Bond's hands - and Yuvraj was gone for a stifled 20. Kaif was still in, but he ran out of partners, as no one could help him keep the run rate up. Jacob Oram got three wickets to redeem his figures, ending with four for 58, although the latter three came in the last ten overs - one of them was Yadav, who gave a simple leading edge to the wicket-keeper McCullum, and the last was a straight drive from Pathan which fell short of the boundary and into Lou Vincent's hands. With Dhoni adjudged lbw to a ball that struck him in the stomach as well, India were all out for 276, Kaif left stranded on 93 not out
after taking a single on the first ball of the over.
New Zealand's batting effort started quietly, with Irfan Pathan using the hint of swing
to bowl a maiden to captain Fleming first up. But inaccurate line and length in the next five overs allowed New Zealand to plunder 62, Fleming hitting five fours from the 5th over, and the run rate raced along. By the end of 15 power play overs, New Zealand had made 112 for no loss, Fleming having made a 51-ball half-century while Astle was on 45. Ganguly turned to his spinners, banking on Virender Sehwag
to give him a few tight overs, and he complied. The first over conceded four runs, and in his second he held a return catch as Fleming went for 61. Four balls later, Hamish Marshall was out for 3, and India were in with a small shout. However, well-timed innings from Scott Styris
, who made 37, and Craig McMillan
with 13, and the occasional awful over - JP Yadav's only contribution to the match was a 14-run over - left New Zealand with 72 in 12.3 overs with six wickets in hand. With Lou Vincent and Nathan Astle in good hitting form - they took 17 off a Harbhajan over as Astle brought up his 100 with his first six of the match - this was no problem, and Vincent won New Zealand the game by hitting Agarkar for four with 11 balls to spare.
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tournament taking place in Zimbabwe
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between the hosts Zimbabwe, India
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and New Zealand
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. It started on 24 August 2005 and ended with the final on 6 September 2005, which New Zealand won by six wickets. Zimbabwe ended the tournament without a victory against a team other than rock-bottom Bangladesh
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for 35 ODI matches, since November 2003. Their last series win against a team other than Bangladesh or Kenya
Kenyan cricket team
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was, intriguingly, against New Zealand, in the 2000-01 season. India
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are still without a tournament win since March 2004, coming off an 18-run defeat by Sri Lanka
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in the final of the 2005 Indian Oil Cup, while New Zealand
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were comprehensively defeated 5-0 by Australia
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at home in their last series before this tournament. Before that, however, they were undefeated in six tournaments. The Supersub rule, which means that a player can be substituted for another at any time, but once the player is off he can not return, was introduced for this tournament. The stand-out performances came from Indian Mohammad Kaif, who hit 277 runs and was made Man of the Series, but Yuvraj Singh
Yuvraj Singh
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, and New Zealanders Stephen Fleming
Stephen Fleming
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and Lou Vincent
Lou Vincent
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also passed 200 runs. On the bowling side, Shane Bond
Shane Bond
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took 11 wickets at an average
Bowling average
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of just 8.63, despite being rested for one match, and Indian seamers Irfan Pathan
Irfan Pathan
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and Ajit Agarkar
Ajit Agarkar
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also got more than 10 wickets.
Tournament structure
The sides played each other in a double round robinRound-robin tournament
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, meaning that each side played four matches, for a total of six matches. A win was worth five points, and a loss zero - however, if the winning team had a run rate (i.e. runs hit per over) higher than 1.25 times that of the opponent, a bonus point was awarded to the winning side, if not it went to the losing side. In the event of a tie or a no-result, each side was to be awarded three points. The top two teams on points went through to the one-match final.
Schedule
| Date | Match | Venue |
|---|---|---|
| August 24 |
Zim v NZ, 1st ODI |
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| 26 | Ind v NZ, 2nd ODI | Bulawayo |
| 29 | Ind v Zim, 3rd ODI | Harare Harare Harare before 1982 known as Salisbury) is the largest city and capital of Zimbabwe. It has an estimated population of 1,600,000, with 2,800,000 in its metropolitan area . Administratively, Harare is an independent city equivalent to a province. It is Zimbabwe's largest city and its... |
| 31 | Zim v NZ, 4th ODI | Harare |
| September 2 |
Ind v NZ, 5th ODI |
Harare |
| 4 | Zim v Ind, 6th ODI | Harare |
| 6 | Ind v NZ, final | Harare |
1st ODI, Zimbabwe v New Zealand 24 August
Lou VincentLou Vincent
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and his New Zealand
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flayed a substandard Zimbabwe
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to all corners as they routed their way to the third highest score of all time in One Day International cricket. Despite the match being shortened to 44 overs
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a side following the discovery of a damp patch on the Bulawayo pitch, New Zealand hit runs right from the outset, and Zimbabwe did not take a wicket until the 28th over. By then, Vincent
Lou Vincent
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and Stephen Fleming
Stephen Fleming
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had taken the score to 207 - already a fearsome total, and then you consider that 16 overs remained. No Zimbabwean bowler escaped the carnage, and it says something that debutant Anthony Ireland
Anthony Ireland
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recorded the best bowling figures - still conceding 52 runs in his seven overs. Andy Blignaut
Andy Blignaut
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, regarded as one of Zimbabwe's best bowlers, was dispatched for 96 runs - nine runs off the most expensive of all time. When the dust had settled, New Zealand had made 397 for 5 - one run short of Sri Lanka
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's nine-year-old record, which was set in 50 overs
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, and Brendon McCullum
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had equalled the fastest fifty for New Zealand, off 21 balls
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.
Zimbabwe
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, naturally, could not answer this, and they were up against a much stronger bowling attack than their own. The openers Brendan Taylor
Brendan Taylor
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and Stuart Carlisle
Stuart Carlisle
Stuart Vance Carlisle was a Zimbabwean cricketer who played 37 Tests and 111 One Day Internationals for Zimbabwe. He was also temporarily the captain of the Zimbabwe cricket team, leading them in six Tests and 12 ODIs, and achieving a 2–3 result in an ODI series in India.Carlisle became the...
survived 14 overs, scoring 62 runs, but Chris Cairns and Andre Adams
Andre Adams
Andre Ryan Adams is a New Zealand cricketer of Caribbean descent who has played one Test and 42 One Day International, taking 53 wickets at a bowling average of 31. He has also scored over 400 ODI runs with a batting strike rate above 100...
inspired a collapse to 123 for 6. At one point, Zimbabwe threatened to break the record of highest ODI defeat ever (256 runs), but 45 from Heath Streak
Heath Streak
Heath Hilton Streak is a former Zimbabwean cricketer. He made his Test debut in Zimbabwe's tour of Pakistan 1993/1994 making his mark by taking 8 wickets in the 2nd Test at Rawalpindi...
, including two sixes, took them past 200. Overall, 205 all out wasn't such a bad score. The problem was that they had been so utterly demolished in the first innings - and two days later, they were to meet India's
Indian cricket team
The Indian cricket team is the national cricket team of India. Governed by the Board of Control for Cricket in India , it is a full member of the International Cricket Council with Test and One Day International status....
feared batting line-up, including people like Sourav Ganguly
Sourav Ganguly
Sourav Chandidas Ganguly is a former Indian cricketer, and captain of the Indian national team. Born into an affluent family, Ganguly was introduced into the world of cricket by his elder brother Snehasish. He is regarded as one of India's most successful captains in modern times. He started his...
, Rahul Dravid
Rahul Dravid
Rahul Sharad Dravid , is a cricketer in the Indian national team, of which he has been a regular member since 1996. He was appointed as the captain of the Indian cricket team in October 2005 and resigned from the post in September 2007. Dravid was honoured as one of the top-five Wisden Cricketers...
and Virender Sehwag
Virender Sehwag
Virender Sehwag , affectionately known as Viru, the Nawab of Najafgarh, or the Zen master of modern cricket, is one of the leading batsmen in the Indian cricket team. Sehwag is an aggressive right-handed opening batsman and a part-time right-arm off-spin bowler...
.
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2nd ODI, New Zealand v India, 26 August
This was Shane BondShane Bond
Shane Edward Bond was a New Zealand cricketer, described as "New Zealand's best fast bowler since Sir Richard Hadlee". He has represented New Zealand in Test, ODI and Twenty20 International cricket as well as playing for Canterbury in New Zealand domestic cricket and Warwickshire in English...
's first match against a team other than Zimbabwe
Zimbabwean cricket team
The Zimbabwean cricket team is a national cricket team representing Zimbabwe. It is administrated by Zimbabwe Cricket...
since his return from injury, and Bond returned in style to inspire yet another ODI defeat for India
Indian cricket team
The Indian cricket team is the national cricket team of India. Governed by the Board of Control for Cricket in India , it is a full member of the International Cricket Council with Test and One Day International status....
. It was a match of two batting collapses, however, as Indian pacemen
Fast bowling
Fast bowling, sometimes known as pace bowling, is one of the two main approaches to bowling in the sport of cricket. The other is spin bowling...
Irfan Pathan
Irfan Pathan
Irfan Pathan is an Indian cricketer who made his debut for India in late-2003 and was a core member of the national team until a decline in form set in during 2006, forcing him out of the team...
and Ashish Nehra
Ashish Nehra
Ashish Nehra is an Indian cricketer who has represented India at the international level since 1999.Nehra started playing first-class cricket for his hometown, Delhi, in the 1997/1998 season and made his Test debut against Sri Lanka at Colombo in 1999 and his ODI debut against Zimbabwe at Harare...
used the conditions well to take five wicket
Wicket
In the sport of cricket the word wicket has several distinct meanings:-Definitions of wicket:Most of the time, the wicket is one of the two sets of three stumps and two bails at either end of the pitch...
s in New Zealand
New Zealand cricket team
The New Zealand cricket team, nicknamed the Black Caps, are the national cricket team representing New Zealand. They played their first in 1930 against England in Christchurch, New Zealand, becoming the fifth country to play Test cricket. It took the team until 1955–56 to win a Test, against the...
first 13 overs
Over (cricket)
In the sport of cricket, an over is a set of six consecutive balls bowled in succession. An over is normally bowled by a single bowler. However, in the event of injury preventing a bowler from completing an over, it is completed by a teammate....
. Lou Vincent
Lou Vincent
Lou Vincent is a professional New Zealand cricketer. He has represented New Zealand in Test match, One Day International and Twenty20 International cricket as well as playing for Auckland in New Zealand domestic cricket and Worcestershire and Lancashire in English domestic cricket.-Early and...
, Stephen Fleming
Stephen Fleming
Stephen Paul Fleming ONZM is a New Zealand cricketer, and the former captain of the New Zealand national cricket team, known as the Black Caps, in Test and one-day cricket...
, Nathan Astle
Nathan Astle
Nathan John Astle is a former New Zealand cricketer. He was an attacking batsman who liked to play batting shots such as the cover drive and the pull shot. He also scored the world's fastest Test double century in terms of balls faced. This remarkable innings of 222 was scored in just 168 balls...
and Hamish Marshall
Hamish Marshall
Hamish John Hamilton Marshall is a New Zealand cricketer. He is the identical twin brother of James Marshall. Hamish and James became the second pair of twins to play Test cricket, and are the first identical pair.Marshall, a middle-order batsman, made his Test debut against South Africa in...
all fell for single-figure scores, and with Jacob Oram
Jacob Oram
Jacob David Philip Oram is a New Zealand cricketer. He is a left-handed batsman and a right-arm fast-medium bowler. His abilities with both bat and ball has made him a regular fixture in the current New Zealand International sides...
and Craig McMillan
Craig McMillan
Craig Douglas McMillan is a former New Zealand international cricketer at Test, One Day International and Twenty20 level. He was a right-handed batsman and useful right-arm medium pace bowler and played for Canterbury in New Zealand first-class cricket...
coming in to bat, the score was 36 for 5.
However, the two batted responsibly together, even finding the time to hit a few sixes - most of them off Harbhajan Singh
Harbhajan Singh
Harbhajan Singh Plaha , commonly known as Harbhajan Singh, is an Indian cricketer. A specialist bowler, he has the second-highest number of Test wickets by an off spinner, behind Sri Lanka's Muttiah Muralitharan....
, who was carted for 55 runs in nine overs. In sixteen overs, the pair added 91 runs, and put New Zealand back on track. There were good scores from Chris Cairns, Brendon McCullum
Brendon McCullum
Brendon Barrie McCullum is a New Zealand international cricketer, who plays for the Otago Volts at provincial level. He is a wicket-keeper, as well as an aggressive batsman who opens in One-day Internationals and is known for his fast scoring rate...
and Daniel Vettori
Daniel Vettori
Daniel Luca Vettori ONZM is a cricketer for the New Zealand cricket team. He is the eighth player in Test history to take 300 wickets and score 3,000 runs. He is the youngest player to have represented New Zealand in Test cricket, having made his debut in 1996–97 at the age of 18...
too, and New Zealand put the new super sub rule to its full use and placed all-rounder Andre Adams
Andre Adams
Andre Ryan Adams is a New Zealand cricketer of Caribbean descent who has played one Test and 42 One Day International, taking 53 wickets at a bowling average of 31. He has also scored over 400 ODI runs with a batting strike rate above 100...
at number 11 in the batting order. They finished on 215 all out, McCullum holing out with a straight hit that fell short of the boundary into Rahul Dravid
Rahul Dravid
Rahul Sharad Dravid , is a cricketer in the Indian national team, of which he has been a regular member since 1996. He was appointed as the captain of the Indian cricket team in October 2005 and resigned from the post in September 2007. Dravid was honoured as one of the top-five Wisden Cricketers...
's waiting hands, but his 49 turned out to be very crucial.
Then it was Shane Bond
Shane Bond
Shane Edward Bond was a New Zealand cricketer, described as "New Zealand's best fast bowler since Sir Richard Hadlee". He has represented New Zealand in Test, ODI and Twenty20 International cricket as well as playing for Canterbury in New Zealand domestic cricket and Warwickshire in English...
's turn. He did not need to bat because of the substitute rule, and he came on for Nathan Astle
Nathan Astle
Nathan John Astle is a former New Zealand cricketer. He was an attacking batsman who liked to play batting shots such as the cover drive and the pull shot. He also scored the world's fastest Test double century in terms of balls faced. This remarkable innings of 222 was scored in just 168 balls...
at the start of India's innings. Taking the new ball
Cricket ball
A cricket ball is a hard, solid leather ball used to play cricket. Constructed of cork and leather, a cricket ball is heavily regulated by cricket law at first class level...
, he immediately menaced the Indian captain Sourav Ganguly
Sourav Ganguly
Sourav Chandidas Ganguly is a former Indian cricketer, and captain of the Indian national team. Born into an affluent family, Ganguly was introduced into the world of cricket by his elder brother Snehasish. He is regarded as one of India's most successful captains in modern times. He started his...
with short balls. Somehow, Ganguly survived the first over, but he was shaken and fell to Bond's eighth delivery of the day - caught by the wicket-keeper
Wicket-keeper
The wicket-keeper in the sport of cricket is the player on the fielding side who stands behind the wicket or stumps being guarded by the batsman currently on strike...
McCullum for 5. The next ball was faced by Venugopal Rao
Venugopal Rao
Yalaka Venugopal Rao is an Indian cricketer. He is a right-handed middle order batsman and right arm off-break bowler. He is the first "super sub" in ODI cricket. He represents Andhra Pradesh in first class cricket, and Delhi Daredevils in the Indian Premier League...
- an inswinging yorker
Yorker
Yorker is a term used in cricket that describes a ball bowled which hits the cricket pitch around the batsman's feet. When a batsman assumes a normal stance this generally means that the cricket ball bounces on the cricket pitch on or near the batsman's popping crease...
that bamboozled the new batsman and slammed into his stumps, out bowled
Bowled
Bowled is a method of dismissing a batsman in the sport of cricket. This method of dismissal is covered by Law 30 of the Laws of cricket.A batsman is out bowled if his wicket is put down by a ball delivered by the bowler...
. And Bond just continued the slaughter. After he had bowled one ball of his sixth over, he stood with five wickets to his name, having added Virender Sehwag
Virender Sehwag
Virender Sehwag , affectionately known as Viru, the Nawab of Najafgarh, or the Zen master of modern cricket, is one of the leading batsmen in the Indian cricket team. Sehwag is an aggressive right-handed opening batsman and a part-time right-arm off-spin bowler...
, Rahul Dravid
Rahul Dravid
Rahul Sharad Dravid , is a cricketer in the Indian national team, of which he has been a regular member since 1996. He was appointed as the captain of the Indian cricket team in October 2005 and resigned from the post in September 2007. Dravid was honoured as one of the top-five Wisden Cricketers...
and Mohammad Kaif to his tally. Andre Adams
Andre Adams
Andre Ryan Adams is a New Zealand cricketer of Caribbean descent who has played one Test and 42 One Day International, taking 53 wickets at a bowling average of 31. He has also scored over 400 ODI runs with a batting strike rate above 100...
also took three wickets as India crashed to 44 for 8.
For a while, India looked to threaten their worst all out score in ODI cricket of 54 against Sri Lanka
Sri Lankan cricket team
The Sri Lankan cricket team is the national cricket team of Sri Lanka. The team first played international cricket in 1926–27, and were later awarded Test status in 1981, which made Sri Lanka the eighth Test cricket playing nation...
, but Bond and Adams were taken off and the other bowlers just couldn't threaten. A well-paced partnership between Yadav and Pathan
Irfan Pathan
Irfan Pathan is an Indian cricketer who made his debut for India in late-2003 and was a core member of the national team until a decline in form set in during 2006, forcing him out of the team...
in fact threatened to turn the match around, but Bond came back, breaking up the partnership with a typical fast bowler's ball outside off stump to Pathan, who edged to McCullum
Brendon McCullum
Brendon Barrie McCullum is a New Zealand international cricketer, who plays for the Otago Volts at provincial level. He is a wicket-keeper, as well as an aggressive batsman who opens in One-day Internationals and is known for his fast scoring rate...
behind the stumps. Four balls earlier, Bond
Shane Bond
Shane Edward Bond was a New Zealand cricketer, described as "New Zealand's best fast bowler since Sir Richard Hadlee". He has represented New Zealand in Test, ODI and Twenty20 International cricket as well as playing for Canterbury in New Zealand domestic cricket and Warwickshire in English...
had dropped Pathan off his own bowling. With the end of the partnership - worth 118 runs, eight off the Indian record - that broke Yadav's resistance, and he was out attempting a lofted drive over Craig McMillan
Craig McMillan
Craig Douglas McMillan is a former New Zealand international cricketer at Test, One Day International and Twenty20 level. He was a right-handed batsman and useful right-arm medium pace bowler and played for Canterbury in New Zealand first-class cricket...
, who could hold a simple catch to end the game.
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3rd ODI, Zimbabwe v India, 29 August
ZimbabweZimbabwean cricket team
The Zimbabwean cricket team is a national cricket team representing Zimbabwe. It is administrated by Zimbabwe Cricket...
crawled to their fourth loss of over 100 runs in the last five matches, as they were bowled out for their third-lowest all out score in ODIs by a rampant Irfan Pathan
Irfan Pathan
Irfan Pathan is an Indian cricketer who made his debut for India in late-2003 and was a core member of the national team until a decline in form set in during 2006, forcing him out of the team...
. It followed a promising bowling effort, as India
Indian cricket team
The Indian cricket team is the national cricket team of India. Governed by the Board of Control for Cricket in India , it is a full member of the International Cricket Council with Test and One Day International status....
had been restricted to 121 for 4 after 35 overs
Over (cricket)
In the sport of cricket, an over is a set of six consecutive balls bowled in succession. An over is normally bowled by a single bowler. However, in the event of injury preventing a bowler from completing an over, it is completed by a teammate....
- Mohammad Kaif tied down, as he could only make 65 despite having faced 122 balls
Delivery (cricket)
A delivery or ball in cricket is a single action of bowling a cricket ball towards the batsman.During play of the game, a member of the fielding team is designated as the bowler, and bowls deliveries towards the batsman...
. Earlier, Heath Streak
Heath Streak
Heath Hilton Streak is a former Zimbabwean cricketer. He made his Test debut in Zimbabwe's tour of Pakistan 1993/1994 making his mark by taking 8 wickets in the 2nd Test at Rawalpindi...
had dismissed Venugopal Rao
Venugopal Rao
Yalaka Venugopal Rao is an Indian cricketer. He is a right-handed middle order batsman and right arm off-break bowler. He is the first "super sub" in ODI cricket. He represents Andhra Pradesh in first class cricket, and Delhi Daredevils in the Indian Premier League...
caught behind for a three-ball duck
Duck (cricket)
In the sport of cricket, a duck refers to a batsman's dismissal for a score of zero.-Origin of the term:The term is a shortening of the term "duck's egg", the latter being used long before Test cricket began...
.
The dismissal of Kaif, however, brought a sense of haste to the Indian side. Dhoni
Mahendra Singh Dhoni
Mahendra Singh Dhoni is an Indian cricketer and the current captain of the Indian national cricket team. He made his One Day International debut in December 2004 against Bangladesh, and a year later played his first Test, this time against Sri Lanka.Under his captaincy, India won the 2007 ICC...
slashed sixes off the youngsters Prosper Utseya
Prosper Utseya
Prosper Utseya is a Zimbabwean cricketer. Rising from the ranks of township cricket in Harare's Highfield suburb, he attended Churchill High School , thanks to Zimbabwe Cricket Union scholarships...
and Ireland
Anthony Ireland
Anthony John Ireland is a cricketer from Zimbabwe. A tall fast bowler, he relies on bounce and swing, and performed consistently during his tenure with Zimbabwe, taking 38 wickets in just 26 matches at a healthy average of 29.34...
, needing only 39 balls to reach his fifty, which he did with a straight hit off Blignaut
Andy Blignaut
Arnoldus "Andy" Mauritius Blignaut is a Zimbabwean cricketer. He is a formidable right-arm fast-medium bowler, but he is also known for his vicious form with the bat in ODIs, where his frequent scoring of runs at a fast rate is a valuable asset, though seeing him sustaining this form and keeping...
over the boundary fence
Boundary (cricket)
Boundary has two distinct meanings in the sport of cricket:# the edge or boundary of the playing field, and# a manner of scoring runs.-Edge of the field:...
for six. Trying to make another one in the very last over, he mistimed it slightly, and Blessing Mahwire
Blessing Mahwire
Ngonidzashe Blessing Mahwire is a Zimbabwean cricketer who plays first-class cricket for Mashonaland and has also made appearances for the Zimbabwean cricket team in both the Test match and One Day International forms of the game...
could hold the catch. Ireland
Anthony Ireland
Anthony John Ireland is a cricketer from Zimbabwe. A tall fast bowler, he relies on bounce and swing, and performed consistently during his tenure with Zimbabwe, taking 38 wickets in just 26 matches at a healthy average of 29.34...
got another wicket, that of Ajit Agarkar
Ajit Agarkar
Ajit Bhalchandra Agarkar is an Indian international cricketer, who has been on the fringes of the Indian side in both tests and one day matches since his debut in 1998...
, and so ended with figures
Bowling analysis
In the sport of cricket, a bowling analysis usually refers to a notation summarising a bowler's performance in terms of overs bowled, how many of those overs are maidens , total runs conceded and number of wickets taken...
of three for 54 — despite seven wides.
The Zimbabwean batting effort, however, was spineless. In the match against New Zealand earlier on in the week, they had at least managed 205, but this time they could only bat respectably for seven overs. In the eighth over, Ajit Agarkar
Ajit Agarkar
Ajit Bhalchandra Agarkar is an Indian international cricketer, who has been on the fringes of the Indian side in both tests and one day matches since his debut in 1998...
dismissed Vusi Sibanda
Vusi Sibanda
Vusimuzi "Vusi" Sibanda is a Zimbabwean cricketer. He has played international cricket for the Zimbabwe cricket team. He also plays for Midlands in the Logan Cup....
and Hamilton Masakadza
Hamilton Masakadza
Hamilton Masakadza is a Zimbabwean cricketer. He is a right-handed batsman and occasional right-arm leg-break bowler.In February 2000 he became the first black Zimbabwean to score a first-class century. Soon after, in July 2001 he became the youngest player to make a century on his Test debut...
, and that started the collapse. In 10.4 overs, Zimbabwe could only muster 26 runs, and lost a total of eight wickets to crash to 43 for 9. By that time, no batsman had made it into double figures. Heath Streak
Heath Streak
Heath Hilton Streak is a former Zimbabwean cricketer. He made his Test debut in Zimbabwe's tour of Pakistan 1993/1994 making his mark by taking 8 wickets in the 2nd Test at Rawalpindi...
and Prosper Utseya
Prosper Utseya
Prosper Utseya is a Zimbabwean cricketer. Rising from the ranks of township cricket in Harare's Highfield suburb, he attended Churchill High School , thanks to Zimbabwe Cricket Union scholarships...
battled out for seven more overs, before Utseya was finally caught by Rahul Dravid
Rahul Dravid
Rahul Sharad Dravid , is a cricketer in the Indian national team, of which he has been a regular member since 1996. He was appointed as the captain of the Indian cricket team in October 2005 and resigned from the post in September 2007. Dravid was honoured as one of the top-five Wisden Cricketers...
for 11, leaving Zimbabwe all out for 65. Extras
Extra (cricket)
In the sport of cricket, an extra is a run scored by a means other than a batsman hitting the ball.Other than runs scored off the bat from a no ball, a batsman is not given credit for extras and the extras are tallied separately on the scorecard and count only towards the team's score...
made up 13.8 % of the total score, and was the third-highest scorer, thanks to all the wides bowled by Pathan
Irfan Pathan
Irfan Pathan is an Indian cricketer who made his debut for India in late-2003 and was a core member of the national team until a decline in form set in during 2006, forcing him out of the team...
, Nehra
Ashish Nehra
Ashish Nehra is an Indian cricketer who has represented India at the international level since 1999.Nehra started playing first-class cricket for his hometown, Delhi, in the 1997/1998 season and made his Test debut against Sri Lanka at Colombo in 1999 and his ODI debut against Zimbabwe at Harare...
and Ajit Agarkar
Ajit Agarkar
Ajit Bhalchandra Agarkar is an Indian international cricketer, who has been on the fringes of the Indian side in both tests and one day matches since his debut in 1998...
. Nevertheless, India had recorded a thumping victory, their highest by runs in two and a half years, but were still criticised by Cricinfo
Cricinfo
ESPNcricinfo is believed to be the largest cricket-related website on the World Wide Web. Content includes news,articles, live scorecards,live text commentary and a comprehensive and searchable database called 'StatsGuru', of historical matches and players from the 18th century to the present...
for not showing much improvement. (Cricinfo scorecard)
4th ODI, Zimbabwe v New Zealand, 31 August
ZimbabweZimbabwean cricket team
The Zimbabwean cricket team is a national cricket team representing Zimbabwe. It is administrated by Zimbabwe Cricket...
suffered their third loss of the series, and although the margin of defeat was smaller, the way in which it was achieved suggested that Zimbabwean coach Kevin Curran still had a lot to work on. Admittedly, it started very well, as Streak
Heath Streak
Heath Hilton Streak is a former Zimbabwean cricketer. He made his Test debut in Zimbabwe's tour of Pakistan 1993/1994 making his mark by taking 8 wickets in the 2nd Test at Rawalpindi...
got Vincent
Lou Vincent
Lou Vincent is a professional New Zealand cricketer. He has represented New Zealand in Test match, One Day International and Twenty20 International cricket as well as playing for Auckland in New Zealand domestic cricket and Worcestershire and Lancashire in English domestic cricket.-Early and...
out with the third delivery of the match. Ireland
Anthony Ireland
Anthony John Ireland is a cricketer from Zimbabwe. A tall fast bowler, he relies on bounce and swing, and performed consistently during his tenure with Zimbabwe, taking 38 wickets in just 26 matches at a healthy average of 29.34...
continued his happy knack of getting wickets, getting the opposing skipper
Captain (cricket)
The captain of a cricket team often referred to as the skipper is the appointed leader, having several additional roles and responsibilities over and above those of a regular player...
Stephen Fleming
Stephen Fleming
Stephen Paul Fleming ONZM is a New Zealand cricketer, and the former captain of the New Zealand national cricket team, known as the Black Caps, in Test and one-day cricket...
for 23 and Hamish Marshall
Hamish Marshall
Hamish John Hamilton Marshall is a New Zealand cricketer. He is the identical twin brother of James Marshall. Hamish and James became the second pair of twins to play Test cricket, and are the first identical pair.Marshall, a middle-order batsman, made his Test debut against South Africa in...
for 7, as New Zealand struggled to 67 for 4.
However, Scott Styris
Scott Styris
Scott Bernardo Styris is an Australian-born New Zealand cricketer. An allrounder, Styris is an aggressive right-handed middle order batsman and a right-arm medium pace bowler....
and Astle
Nathan Astle
Nathan John Astle is a former New Zealand cricketer. He was an attacking batsman who liked to play batting shots such as the cover drive and the pull shot. He also scored the world's fastest Test double century in terms of balls faced. This remarkable innings of 222 was scored in just 168 balls...
fought back well. Styris made 63, relying on nurdling the singles into the leg side
Leg side
The leg side, or on side, is defined to be a particular half of the field used to play the sport of cricket.From the point of view of a right-handed batsman facing the bowler, it is the left hand side of the cricket field...
, as he only hit ten runs in boundaries. However, he held the innings together twice. The first time was in his 62-run partnership with Astle. Then, when both Oram
Jacob Oram
Jacob David Philip Oram is a New Zealand cricketer. He is a left-handed batsman and a right-arm fast-medium bowler. His abilities with both bat and ball has made him a regular fixture in the current New Zealand International sides...
and McCullum
Brendon McCullum
Brendon Barrie McCullum is a New Zealand international cricketer, who plays for the Otago Volts at provincial level. He is a wicket-keeper, as well as an aggressive batsman who opens in One-day Internationals and is known for his fast scoring rate...
deserted him within six overs and the scoreboard showd 149 for 7, he remained calm. His partnership with Vettori
Daniel Vettori
Daniel Luca Vettori ONZM is a cricketer for the New Zealand cricket team. He is the eighth player in Test history to take 300 wickets and score 3,000 runs. He is the youngest player to have represented New Zealand in Test cricket, having made his debut in 1996–97 at the age of 18...
carried New Zealand past 200, Vettori joining Styris in nurdling the ball - his 47 runs included only 12 in boundaries. Andy Blignaut
Andy Blignaut
Arnoldus "Andy" Mauritius Blignaut is a Zimbabwean cricketer. He is a formidable right-arm fast-medium bowler, but he is also known for his vicious form with the bat in ODIs, where his frequent scoring of runs at a fast rate is a valuable asset, though seeing him sustaining this form and keeping...
then got three wickets with five balls as New Zealand were bowled out for 238.
However, Bond
Shane Bond
Shane Edward Bond was a New Zealand cricketer, described as "New Zealand's best fast bowler since Sir Richard Hadlee". He has represented New Zealand in Test, ODI and Twenty20 International cricket as well as playing for Canterbury in New Zealand domestic cricket and Warwickshire in English...
and Kyle Mills
Kyle Mills
Kyle David Mills is a New Zealand cricketer. Kyle is right-arm pace bowler who can also score quick runs in the later stages of one day innings; in October 2009 he reached his peak position of 1st on the Reliance Mobile ICC ODI Bowling Rankings.Having been injured in Australia in February 2007,...
tied down the Zimbabwean batting effectively. After eight overs, Brendan Taylor
Brendan Taylor
Brendan Taylor is a Zimbabwean cricketer, who is mainly a batsman, but occasionally keeps wicket or bowls off-spin as well. He is currently the captain of the Zimbabwean cricket team, having taken over the reins from Elton Chigumbura after the 2011 Cricket World Cup...
and debutant Justice Chibhabha
Justice Chibhabha
Chamunorwa Justice "Chamu" Chibhabha is a Zimbabwean cricketer who bats right-handed and bowls right-arm medium pace. Chibhabha made a duck on international debut, against New Zealand during the 2005–06 Videocon Tri–Series...
had both been caught by wicket-keeper McCullum, and the score was eight for 2. Sibanda
Vusi Sibanda
Vusimuzi "Vusi" Sibanda is a Zimbabwean cricketer. He has played international cricket for the Zimbabwe cricket team. He also plays for Midlands in the Logan Cup....
played himself in, however, and looked to go on when he attempted a difficult second run and was run out for 21. The Zimbabwean batsmen just couldn't hit out at all, and by the end of the 35th over, they were 93 for 6 - having just seen Heath Streak
Heath Streak
Heath Hilton Streak is a former Zimbabwean cricketer. He made his Test debut in Zimbabwe's tour of Pakistan 1993/1994 making his mark by taking 8 wickets in the 2nd Test at Rawalpindi...
out for 18, two balls after he had hit a thumping drive for six.
Needing 146 runs to win from 90 balls, Zimbabwe just went for the hit. Charles Coventry
Charles Coventry (Zimbabwean cricketer)
Charles Kevin Coventry is a Zimbabwean cricketer. He is a right-handed batsman and occasional wicket-keeper. Within Zimbabwe he is known as "Chappie" Coventry. He previously held the record of the highest individual score in a One Day International, 194 runs not out. This was surpassed by Sachin...
smashed two straight sixes, before top edging to the keeper for 35. Andy Blignaut
Andy Blignaut
Arnoldus "Andy" Mauritius Blignaut is a Zimbabwean cricketer. He is a formidable right-arm fast-medium bowler, but he is also known for his vicious form with the bat in ODIs, where his frequent scoring of runs at a fast rate is a valuable asset, though seeing him sustaining this form and keeping...
also hit sixes, getting a 44-ball fifty, but the next two balls did not give any runs and he was caught at the boundary by Astle
Nathan Astle
Nathan John Astle is a former New Zealand cricketer. He was an attacking batsman who liked to play batting shots such as the cover drive and the pull shot. He also scored the world's fastest Test double century in terms of balls faced. This remarkable innings of 222 was scored in just 168 balls...
. The batsmen had crossed, so Blessing Mahwire
Blessing Mahwire
Ngonidzashe Blessing Mahwire is a Zimbabwean cricketer who plays first-class cricket for Mashonaland and has also made appearances for the Zimbabwean cricket team in both the Test match and One Day International forms of the game...
- on 8 - faced the last ball of Bond's
Shane Bond
Shane Edward Bond was a New Zealand cricketer, described as "New Zealand's best fast bowler since Sir Richard Hadlee". He has represented New Zealand in Test, ODI and Twenty20 International cricket as well as playing for Canterbury in New Zealand domestic cricket and Warwickshire in English...
over, and duly mistimed a drive to Oram
Jacob Oram
Jacob David Philip Oram is a New Zealand cricketer. He is a left-handed batsman and a right-arm fast-medium bowler. His abilities with both bat and ball has made him a regular fixture in the current New Zealand International sides...
to complete the 27-run defeat.
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5th ODI, New Zealand v India, 2 September
New Zealand got plenty of practice in their last ODI of the group stage, but were found lacking after resting their best bowlers, Shane BondShane Bond
Shane Edward Bond was a New Zealand cricketer, described as "New Zealand's best fast bowler since Sir Richard Hadlee". He has represented New Zealand in Test, ODI and Twenty20 International cricket as well as playing for Canterbury in New Zealand domestic cricket and Warwickshire in English...
and Daniel Vettori
Daniel Vettori
Daniel Luca Vettori ONZM is a cricketer for the New Zealand cricket team. He is the eighth player in Test history to take 300 wickets and score 3,000 runs. He is the youngest player to have represented New Zealand in Test cricket, having made his debut in 1996–97 at the age of 18...
. Nehra and Pathan, India's opening bowlers, were taken for runs early on as they sought for wickets but the openers Fleming and Astle escaped, adding 44 in the first 10 overs before Fleming let himself loose with a couple of aerial shots on the off side to take ten off an over from Pathan. Agarkar, who had come on for Nehra earlier, then had Astle caught behind for 11, but Vincent and Fleming continued to punish the bowling, and by the end of 15 overs they were 81 for 1 - Nehra having conceded 35 in five overs. However, once again Agarkar was responsible for a breakthrough, running out
Run out
Run out is a method of dismissal in the sport of cricket. It is governed by Law 38 of the Laws of cricket.-The rules:A batsman is out Run out if at any time while the ball is in play no part of his bat or person is grounded behind the popping crease and his wicket is fairly put down by the opposing...
Fleming with a good throw after having picked up the ball in his follow-through.
Another run out three overs later saw Vincent back in the pavilion, having added 37, before Hamish Marshall was bowled through the gate for 8 by Yadav, and all of a sudden New Zealand were 115 for 4, and patience was required from Styris and McMillan. They played that role well, only hitting 16 runs in boundaries between them yet adding 87 together, setting the stage for hard hitting from wicket-keeper McCullum
Brendon McCullum
Brendon Barrie McCullum is a New Zealand international cricketer, who plays for the Otago Volts at provincial level. He is a wicket-keeper, as well as an aggressive batsman who opens in One-day Internationals and is known for his fast scoring rate...
. Styris, once again, was the highest scorer of the New Zealand innings. After playing himself in, McCullum first hit a six off Agarkar to end the 44th over, before unleashing himself in the 46th. He was caught off a no-ball and dropped off the next delivery, and then smashed the remaining five balls for eighteen, with three fours and one six. Having added 28 in total, he then was caught by Kaif, but the pace was set. New Zealand notched up 31 runs in the final three overs, not bothering much with the loss of wickets, and ended with 278 for 9.
However, India quickly showed their intent. As Andre Adams
Andre Adams
Andre Ryan Adams is a New Zealand cricketer of Caribbean descent who has played one Test and 42 One Day International, taking 53 wickets at a bowling average of 31. He has also scored over 400 ODI runs with a batting strike rate above 100...
pitched it short outside the off stump, Virender Sehwag
Virender Sehwag
Virender Sehwag , affectionately known as Viru, the Nawab of Najafgarh, or the Zen master of modern cricket, is one of the leading batsmen in the Indian cricket team. Sehwag is an aggressive right-handed opening batsman and a part-time right-arm off-spin bowler...
feasted, smashing sixteen off one over, and taking only 34 balls for his 45 before dragging a ball from Oram into his own stumps. With the other opener, Sourav Ganguly
Sourav Ganguly
Sourav Chandidas Ganguly is a former Indian cricketer, and captain of the Indian national team. Born into an affluent family, Ganguly was introduced into the world of cricket by his elder brother Snehasish. He is regarded as one of India's most successful captains in modern times. He started his...
, having made 19, India had made a solid start, with 75 runs coming off 50 deliveries. Rahul Dravid
Rahul Dravid
Rahul Sharad Dravid , is a cricketer in the Indian national team, of which he has been a regular member since 1996. He was appointed as the captain of the Indian cricket team in October 2005 and resigned from the post in September 2007. Dravid was honoured as one of the top-five Wisden Cricketers...
and Mohammad Kaif came to the crease, and the pair slowed down the run rate somewhat, but still hit plenty of boundaries when opportunities arose, keeping the required rate around 5. New Zealand's bowlers tried to apply pressure, but only Scott Styris
Scott Styris
Scott Bernardo Styris is an Australian-born New Zealand cricketer. An allrounder, Styris is an aggressive right-handed middle order batsman and a right-arm medium pace bowler....
managed to do so with any consistency, bowling nine overs in a spell before his last over yielded 10 runs - which prompted Fleming to bring on spinner Jeetan Patel
Jeetan Patel
Jeetan Shashi Patel is a New Zealand cricketer of Indian descent. Patel is a right arm off spin bowler. He plays domestic cricket for the Wellington Firebirds and has represented the New Zealand Black Caps in One Day Internationals, Twenty20 matches, and Test cricket.Patel was earmarked as a...
. Dhoni
Mahendra Singh Dhoni
Mahendra Singh Dhoni is an Indian cricketer and the current captain of the Indian national cricket team. He made his One Day International debut in December 2004 against Bangladesh, and a year later played his first Test, this time against Sri Lanka.Under his captaincy, India won the 2007 ICC...
came on a few overs earlier as Yuvraj
Yuvraj Singh
Yuvraj Singh Bhandal is an Indian cricketer, and the son of former Indian fast bowler and Punjabi movie star Yograj Singh. He has been a member of the Indian cricket team since 2000 and played his first Test match in 2003. He was the vice captain of the ODI team from late-2007 to late-2008...
was out for 22, and the big-hitting wicket-keeper punished Patel with two straight sixes to bring the equation from 19 off 22 to 7 off 20. Dhoni then ended the match with six runs off the balls from Andre Adams, who conceded 67 runs in total, to see India into the final and make the last match with Zimbabwe academic.
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6th ODI, Zimbabwe v India, 4 September
Ajit Agarkar
Ajit Bhalchandra Agarkar is an Indian international cricketer, who has been on the fringes of the Indian side in both tests and one day matches since his debut in 1998...
tied down the other end with accurate outswing. However, Brendan Taylor and Tatenda Taibu fought back with boundaries through the third man and point regions, building a partnership of 46 for the third wicket before Yuvraj Singh was responsible for his third run out of the tournament, forcing down the stumps at the striker's end with a well-timed throw.
Zimbabwe, however, still had their captain Taibu in, and joined by the hard-hitting Coventry he set out to give Zimbabwe a competitive score. The pair batted responsibly, yet did not stay away from punishing the balls delivered on an errant length, and in 11 overs the pair added 60 runs as Zimbabwe moved to 110 for 3 at the halfway mark, with Taibu on 51. Sourav Ganguly even brought himself on to stop the Zimbabwean onslaught, but after delivering two no-balls and a wide and conceding 24 runs in four overs he wisely left bowling to the specialists. Yadav got smashed early on, but recovered well to bowl a maiden over and take the wicket of Taibu for 71. However, that brought the hard-hitting Blignaut to the crease, and he and Coventry attacked the bowlers with venom. Coventry had a particular love for Murali Kartik
Murali Kartik
Murali Kartik is an Indian cricketer who sporadically represented the India national cricket team since 2000...
, whom he took for one six and one four in an over, before finally hitting one lofted straight shot too much, and Kartik could hold the catch - gone for 74, his first ODI fifty. The partnership of Coventry and Blignaut had added 61 from 49 deliveries.
The last five overs were not quite as productive, however, with Agarkar keeping the run rate down and taking wickets in the process, but Zimbabwe still set a target of 251. Sehwag and Ganguly opened for India, and Sehwag started in typical fashion, taking boundaries off both Mahwire and Ireland, but Mahwire got one onto his stumps as he was bowled for 12. Things quickly went from bad to worse for India, with skipper Ganguly edging to Vusi Sibanda
Vusi Sibanda
Vusimuzi "Vusi" Sibanda is a Zimbabwean cricketer. He has played international cricket for the Zimbabwe cricket team. He also plays for Midlands in the Logan Cup....
for 2, before Rahul Dravid
Rahul Dravid
Rahul Sharad Dravid , is a cricketer in the Indian national team, of which he has been a regular member since 1996. He was appointed as the captain of the Indian cricket team in October 2005 and resigned from the post in September 2007. Dravid was honoured as one of the top-five Wisden Cricketers...
and Mohammad Kaif were dismissed in successive overs. India used their super sub, bringing on Venugopal Rao for R. P. Singh, and Venugopal and Yuvraj Singh took some early hits off Blignaut and Ireland to calm the jitters. Nevertheless, by the end of the 20 power play
Powerplay (cricket)
A Powerplay is a rule introduced in 1991 concerning fielding restrictions in One Day International cricket.The Powerplay was intended to add to the excitement in ODI cricket. In a Powerplay fielding restrictions are applied on the fielding team, only 2 or 3 players are allowed outside the 30 yard...
overs India were 82 for 4, needing 169 to win off the remaining 30 overs.
At the end of the powerplay overs, Taibu brought on his spinners Gavin Ewing
Gavin Ewing
Gavin Mackie Ewing is a Zimbabwean cricketer. He is a right-handed batsman and bowls a right-arm offbreak. As a teenager he spent a short time at Potchefstroom Boys High in South Africa before returning to Zimbabwe....
and Prosper Utseya
Prosper Utseya
Prosper Utseya is a Zimbabwean cricketer. Rising from the ranks of township cricket in Harare's Highfield suburb, he attended Churchill High School , thanks to Zimbabwe Cricket Union scholarships...
, and the two frustrated the Indian batsmen, only giving up eight runs in four overs. With the required run rate ballooning, India needed singles, and Keith Dabengwa
Keith Dabengwa
Keith Mbusi Dabengwa is a Zimbabwean cricketer.Dabengwa is a useful all-rounder who made his First class debut for Matabeleland in 2000, taking 5 for 76, he then spent a season at the CFX Academy being named student of the year before returning to Matabeleland...
could run out the non-striker Venugopal Rao with a direct hit as Rao attempted the single while Yuvraj stood his ground. Dhoni, coming in at seven, kept his head cool against the spinners in the remaining overs, though, as he was tied down by Sean Williams
Sean Williams (cricketer)
Sean Colin Williams is a Zimbabwean cricketer who captained his country at the 2006 Under–19 World Cup. Williams, a left-handed batsman and occasional slow left arm bowler, has a highest score of 70 not out against the West Indies in the match played between the nations at the 2007 World Cup, and...
and Dabengwa. However, in the 39th over he unleashed himself, taking a six and a four off Sean Williams as he quickly moved to 42. Yuvraj also hit plenty of runs, as the Zimbabwean seamers were smashed around the ground, and his 120 eventually secured victory - even though he was caught by Dabengwa off Blignaut. It didn't matter. India needed six from the last three overs, but only hit one off the third to last, before Dhoni got to face Mahwire and promptly smashed the last ball for six to win the game for India.
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Final group stage table
| Tri-Series Standings | ||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Team | M | W | L | NR | Pts | NRR |
 New ZealandNew Zealand cricket team The New Zealand cricket team, nicknamed the Black Caps, are the national cricket team representing New Zealand. They played their first in 1930 against England in Christchurch, New Zealand, becoming the fifth country to play Test cricket. It took the team until 1955–56 to win a Test, against the... |
4 | 3 | 1 | 0 | 18 | |
 IndiaIndian cricket team The Indian cricket team is the national cricket team of India. Governed by the Board of Control for Cricket in India , it is a full member of the International Cricket Council with Test and One Day International status.... |
4 | 3 | 1 | 0 | 16 | |
 Zimbabwe |
4 | 0 | 4 | 0 | 2 | |
Final, New Zealand v India, 6th September
IndiaIndian cricket team
The Indian cricket team is the national cricket team of India. Governed by the Board of Control for Cricket in India , it is a full member of the International Cricket Council with Test and One Day International status....
lost yet another ODI final, their fifth successive loss and their eighth without a victory, as they went down to New Zealand
New Zealand cricket team
The New Zealand cricket team, nicknamed the Black Caps, are the national cricket team representing New Zealand. They played their first in 1930 against England in Christchurch, New Zealand, becoming the fifth country to play Test cricket. It took the team until 1955–56 to win a Test, against the...
in Harare. And yet again, they threw away a very promising start. Batting first after Sourav Ganguly won the toss, the returning Shane Bond and Kyle Mills kept them down for the first two overs, bowling an accurate line as the score moved to five for no loss. Sehwag and Ganguly eventually found their feet, though, and after thirteen overs they had added 72 runs, despite being beaten time and again. Jacob Oram conceded fifteen runs off his first eleven deliveries, but Ganguly holed out as he was caught by Hamish Marshall. At 72 for 1, India were well in control, and Mohammad Kaif started to accumulate with Sehwag. Boundaries came with regularity, as India moved past 100 and then past 150 without losing a wicket. At 153 for 1 after 24 overs, they were genuinely looking at a chance to get 300.
Sehwag, however, was caught by Lou Vincent for 75, and that started a flurry of wickets for New Zealand. Rahul Dravid, who had had a poor series with only 64 runs in four innings, continued on that vein of form as he was deceived by a quick arm ball
Arm ball
An arm ball is a type of delivery in cricket. It is a variation delivery bowled by an off spin bowler or slow left-arm orthodox bowler. It is the finger spin equivalent of a wrist spinner's slider or zooter....
from Daniel Vettori for a two-ball 0 - Vettori's second wicket of the innings. Astle, Mills and Vettori tied down the batsmen, as no boundaries were given up in the next eight overs, and Yuvraj felt like he had to attack. He got away with a lofted shot through midwicket for four on the second ball of a Mills over, but shortly afterwards he had a feel at a short ball which landed in Shane Bond's hands - and Yuvraj was gone for a stifled 20. Kaif was still in, but he ran out of partners, as no one could help him keep the run rate up. Jacob Oram got three wickets to redeem his figures, ending with four for 58, although the latter three came in the last ten overs - one of them was Yadav, who gave a simple leading edge to the wicket-keeper McCullum, and the last was a straight drive from Pathan which fell short of the boundary and into Lou Vincent's hands. With Dhoni adjudged lbw to a ball that struck him in the stomach as well, India were all out for 276, Kaif left stranded on 93 not out
Not out
In cricket, a batsman will be not out if he comes out to bat in an innings and has not been dismissed by the end of the innings. One may similarly describe a batsman as not out while the innings is still in progress...
after taking a single on the first ball of the over.
New Zealand's batting effort started quietly, with Irfan Pathan using the hint of swing
Swing bowling
Swing bowling is a technique used for bowling in the sport of cricket. Practitioners are known as swing bowlers. Swing bowling is generally classed as a subtype of fast bowling.-Physics of swing bowling:...
to bowl a maiden to captain Fleming first up. But inaccurate line and length in the next five overs allowed New Zealand to plunder 62, Fleming hitting five fours from the 5th over, and the run rate raced along. By the end of 15 power play overs, New Zealand had made 112 for no loss, Fleming having made a 51-ball half-century while Astle was on 45. Ganguly turned to his spinners, banking on Virender Sehwag
Virender Sehwag
Virender Sehwag , affectionately known as Viru, the Nawab of Najafgarh, or the Zen master of modern cricket, is one of the leading batsmen in the Indian cricket team. Sehwag is an aggressive right-handed opening batsman and a part-time right-arm off-spin bowler...
to give him a few tight overs, and he complied. The first over conceded four runs, and in his second he held a return catch as Fleming went for 61. Four balls later, Hamish Marshall was out for 3, and India were in with a small shout. However, well-timed innings from Scott Styris
Scott Styris
Scott Bernardo Styris is an Australian-born New Zealand cricketer. An allrounder, Styris is an aggressive right-handed middle order batsman and a right-arm medium pace bowler....
, who made 37, and Craig McMillan
Craig McMillan
Craig Douglas McMillan is a former New Zealand international cricketer at Test, One Day International and Twenty20 level. He was a right-handed batsman and useful right-arm medium pace bowler and played for Canterbury in New Zealand first-class cricket...
with 13, and the occasional awful over - JP Yadav's only contribution to the match was a 14-run over - left New Zealand with 72 in 12.3 overs with six wickets in hand. With Lou Vincent and Nathan Astle in good hitting form - they took 17 off a Harbhajan over as Astle brought up his 100 with his first six of the match - this was no problem, and Vincent won New Zealand the game by hitting Agarkar for four with 11 balls to spare.
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