SATURDAY, FEBRUARY 21, 2015

Southee’s seven rocks

WELLINGTON: Paceman recorded McCullum. England skipper said the best one-day figures by a New Zealander that he was always expecting two tough games while Brendon McCullum hit the fastest World first up. “We need a win as soon as possible now. Cup half- to lead their team to an eight- in those conditions and trying to get 270 rout of hapless England on Friday. plus was tough,” said Morgan. Sensing an easy Southee took seven for 33 in nine overs as win, McCullum launched a ferocious attack on England collapsed to 123 all out in just 33.2 the England , hitting for a overs. McCullum’s rollick- six off the first ball he faced. ing 25-ball 77 with seven sixes and eight fours at Fast bowler was not spared as the top of the order then saw the tournament McCullum hit six, four, four and six off the co-hosts romp to victory in just 12.2 overs of paceman’s first four balls and then their reply in . another six to bring up his fifty off just 18 balls. When the umpires called for a dinner break McCullum held the previous record for the with New Zealand needing just 12 more runs to fastest World Cup fifty, off 20 balls against win, jeers rang out around the packed 33,000 Canada at St Lucia in 2007. Finn’s two wicketless capacity Westpac Stadium. overs cost a whopping 49 runs before ended McCullum’s knock by bowling him off a bottom edge. South Africa’s AB de Villiers holds the record for the fastest-ever one-day international fifty, off just 16 balls, made against the West Indies last month. Earlier it was Southee who left England clueless after Morgan won the toss and SCOREBOARD batted on a flat looking pitch. Southee achieved the third-best figures in all World Cups and beat WELLINGTON: Complete scoreboard in the World Cup Pool A match between New the previous best by a New Zealander in all Zealand and England played at Westpac stadium in Wellington yesterday: ODIs, recorded by , now the team’s bowling coach, who took six for 19 against England 2-32-1 (1w), Milne 5.2-1-25-1 (2w), Vettori at Bulawayo in 2005. I. Bell b Southee 8 7-0-19-1, Anderson 2-0-8-0 (1w) Only , last man out in the 34th over, b Southee 20 offered resistance with 46 while opener Moeen G. Ballance c Williamson b Boult 10 New Zealand Ali made 20 and Morgan managed 17 in an oth- J. Root c Vettori b Milne 46 B. McCullum b Woakes 77 erwise disappointing batting display. E. Morgan c Milne b Vettori 17 M. Guptill b Woakes 22 “It’s a bit of a blur at the moment,” said J. Taylor b Southee 0 K. Williamson 9 Southee during the change of innings. “We’re J. Butler c Ronchi b Southee 3 R. Taylor not out 5 good swing bowlers and, although we lost the C. Woakes b Southee 1 Extras: (lb4, w8) 12 toss, the ball swung throughout the innings. S. Broad c Vettori b Southee 4 Total: (one wkt; 12.2 overs) 125 “They say that when there’s a bit of blue sky S. Finn c Taylor b Southee 0 Did not bat: G. Elliott, C. Anderson, L. WELLINGTON: New Zealand bowler Tim in Wellington, the ball swings.” England were J. Anderson not out 1 Ronchi, D. Vettori, A. Milne, T. Southee, T. Southee holds his Man of the Match trophy looking at a revival at 103 for three with Morgan Extras: (lb6, w7) 13 Boult after taking seven in New Zealandís and Root at the crease. Total: ( all out; 33.2 overs) 123 Bowling: Anderosn 5-0-37-0 (3w), Broad 2.2- eight wicket win over England in their But former Ireland left-hander Morgan, who Fall of wickets: 1-18 (Bell), 2-36 (Ali), 3-57 0-27-0 (1w), Finn 2-0-49-0, Woakes 3-1-8-2 World Cup match. — AP had managed just two runs with four ducks in (Ballance), 4-104 (Morgan), 5-104 (Taylor), Fall of wickets: 1-105 (McCullum), 2-112 his previous five innings, holed out at long-on 6-108 (Butler), 7-110 (Woakes), 8-116 (Guptill) But although the amount of cricket played off Vettori. He was left to rue his shot as England was under half the scheduled 100 overs of a lost their last seven wickets for just 19 runs. (Broad), 9-117 (Finn), 10-123 (Root) Result: New Zealand win by eight one-day international, the crowd certainly got Openers (eight) and Moeen Ali (20) Bowling: Southee 9-0-33-7 (3w), Boult 10- wickets. their money’s worth. were both bowled by Southee, who subse- Victory gave New Zealand, one of the tourna- quently dismissed James Taylor (nought), Jos ment favourites, their third win in as many Pool Buttler (three), Chris Woakes (one), Stuart Broad A games while England were left with two (four) and Steven Finn (nought). Boycott rips into defeats in two following a 111-run thrashing by He took his final five wickets in the space of . “It was an incredible performance. We just 18 balls to record the third best figures in all wanted to bat first too and it shows the ability of World Cups behind the Australian duo of Glenn feeble England our bowlers to get swing through the air,” said McGrath (7-15) and Andy Bichel (7-20). — AFP LONDON: England are not as good as lowed a heavy defeat by Australia and World Cup results/standings they think they are and have a lot of hard England will need to win at least three of work to do to even qualify for the World their four remaining Pool A games to Cup quarter-finals, former opening bats- have a chance of reaching the last eight. Pool A man said yesterday. “England are not out of the World At Wellington Eoin Morgan’s side suffered a humili- Cup,” Boycott said. “They have to beat England 123 all out (Tim Southee 7-33) v New Zealand 125-2 (Brendon McCullum 77) New Zealand won by eight wickets ating eight-wicket defeat by New Scotland, and Afghanistan Zealand after being bowled out for 123 and then they’re through to quarter- Played won lost tied N/R points run rate in Wellington and allowing the hosts to finals. It’s a good job they’ve got min- Pool A reach their target in 12.2 overs. nows to play because they are not play- New Zealand 3 3 0 0 0 6 +3.586 “Perhaps they are not as good as they ing good enough to beat any decent Australia 1 1 0 0 0 2 +2.220 think they are,” Boycott told the BBC. “I team. I will be a bit nervous on Monday Bangladesh 1 1 0 0 0 2 +2.100 said that about the captain Morgan and for the Scotland game.” 1 0 1 0 0 0 -1.960 everybody went mad, but maybe England’s preparations for the tourna- Afghanistan 1 0 1 0 0 0 -2.100 England aren’t either.” ment were far from ideal with Alastair Scotland 1 0 1 0 0 0 -3.039 England lost their last seven wickets Cook axed as captain in December but England 2 0 2 0 0 0 -3.952 for 19 runs and New Zealand seamer Tim they beat India twice to reach the Tri- Pool B Southee became only the fourth bowler Series final in Australia. “They have got a India 1 1 0 0 0 2 +1.520 to take seven wickets in a World Cup lot of hard work to do,” Boycott said. South Africa 1 1 0 0 0 2 +1.240 game. “We’ve had an interminably eventful few Ireland 1 1 0 0 0 2 +0.618 “This was not an uncovered or grassy months with things going on. What have 2 1 1 0 0 2 -0.495 pitch seaming all over the place,” New Zealand been doing? They’ve had a UAE 1 0 1 0 0 0 -0.258 Boycott said. “This was a flat 270-pitch settled side, good leadership and win- West Indies 1 0 1 0 0 0 -0.618 minimum and they made a right mess of ning test and ODIs, while we don’t know 1 0 1 0 0 0 -1.520 it.” The mauling by New Zealand fol- our best batting line-up.” — Reuters