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TUESDAY, FEBRUARY 17, 2015

Ireland clinch historic victory over Windies

NELSON: Ireland caused the first upset of the World Cup when an audacious 92 by Paul Stirling paved the way for a four-wicket win over the West Indies at Nelson’s Saxton Oval yesterday.
Stirling stood in a match-defining 106-run stand with Ed Joyce for the second wicket as Ireland chased down a 305-run target with 25 balls to spare.
Stirling cracked his 92 off 84 balls, Joyce scored 84 off 67 and Niall O’Brien chimed in with an unbeaten 79 off 60 deliveries. It was Ireland’s first win over the West Indies in six official matches and the first victory at this World Cup achieved by a team batting second.

SCOREBOARD

NELSON, New Zealand: Complete scoreboard in the World Cup Pool B match between West Indies and

The 12th-ranked Irish paid scant regard to the high-profile West Indians and enhanced their own reputation as giant-killers after beating other top-tier nations England and Pakistan in the previous two World Cups. The victorious finish was a fitting reward for their spirited start to the match when they opted to bowl and rapidly reduced the West Indies to 87-5.
“It’s fantastic to win. This sets us up nicely for the next few games,” said Ireland skipper William Porterfield. “The belief has been growing within the squad for a long time and we know what we are capable of, not just in this game but the other games in the competition as well.”
West Indies skipper Jason Holder admitted that his team’s total of 304 should have been enough. “It was a tough loss and obviously putting up 300 should have been enough, but it wasn’t today,” said the 23-year-old. “I think we just need to be a bit more precise when we set fields. We are just giving away too many boundaries during the middle overs.”

Ireland at Saxton Oval, Nelson yesterday:

  • West Indies
  • Ireland

D. Smith c Mooney b K. O’Brien C. Gayle c K. O’Brien b Dockrell D. Bravo run out (McBrine) M. Samuels lbw Dockrell D. Ramdin lbw Dockrell L. Simmons c Dockrell b Sorensen D. Sammy c Dockrell b Mooney A. Russell not out J. Holder not out Extras (lb1, w9) Total (7 wkts, 50 overs) Did not bat: K Roach, J Taylor Fall of wickets: 1-30 (Smith), 2-31 (Bravo), 3-78 (Gayle), 4-78 (Samuels), 5-87 (Ramdin), 6-241 (Sammy), 7-302 (Simmons)
18 36 021 1102 89 27 010 304
W. Porterfield c Ramdin b Gayle P. Stirling c Ramdin b Samuels E. Joyce c Bravo b Taylor N. O’Brien not out A Balbirnie c Bravo b Taylor G. Wilson c Gayle b Taylor K. O’Brien run out (Smith/Roach) J. Mooney not out
23 92 84 79 910613 307
Extras (b4, w9) Total (6 wkts, 45.5 overs) Did not bat: M Sorensen, G Dockrell, A McBrine Fall of wickets 1-71 (Porterfield), 2-177 (Stirling), 3-273 (Joyce), 4-285 (Balbirnie), 5-290 (Wilson), 6- 291 (K O’Brien) Bowling: Holder 9-1-44-0 (2w); Roach 6-0-52-0 (1w); Taylor 8.5-0-71-3 (1w); Russell 6-0-33-0 (1w); Gayle 8-0-41-1; Sammy 3-0-25-0; Samuels 4-0-25- 1; Simmons 1-0-12-0.
Bowling: Mooney 7-1-59-1 (3w); Sorensen 8-0-64- 1 (1w); McBrine 10-1-26-0; K. O’Brien 9-0-71-1 (3w); Dockrell 10-0-50-3 (1w); Stirling 6-0-33-0

  • (1w)
  • Result: Ireland won by four wickets.

The victory will have boosted Ireland’s hopes of being one of the four teams to make the quarter-finals from a group that also contains defending champions India, South Africa and Pakistan. West Indies star Chris Gayle again failed to fire as spinner George Dockrell carved through the upper order before a dashing century by Lendl Simmons and a personal-best 89 from Darren Sammy put some backbone into the Caribbean side’s innings.
Their power batting lifted the West Indies to what should have been a respectable 304 but they lacked the discipline in their bowling to defend the total.

World Cup results and standings

Pool B

At Nelson West Indies 304-7 (Lendl Simmons 102, Darren Sammy 89) v Ireland 307-6 (Paul Stirling 92, Ed Joyce 84, Niall O’Brien 79 not out). Ireland won by four wickets

  • Played won lost
  • tied
  • N/R
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  • run rate

Pool A

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Holder opened with a first ball that raced wide of slips to the boundary to give Ireland an immediate five runs from extras which started Stirling and Porterfield on their way to a 71-run first wicket stand.

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Pool B

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With Porterfield’s dismissal for 23, the lefthanded Joyce joined right-hander Stirling to continue piling on the pressure. Stirling’s dismissal, caught behind off a Marlon Samuels delivery, saw O’Brien arrive to up the tempo further with the textbook formula of looking for an early boundary each over and accumulating what runs were on offer afterwards.

NEW ZEALAND: Ireland’s batsman Ed Joyce plays a shot during the Pool B 2015 Cricket World Cup match between Ireland and the West Indies at Saxton Park Oval. —AFP

  • and O’Brien was on 38 when he skied a Jerome
  • It was another disappointment for Gayle who

Taylor delivery and Holder dropped what should has not passed 50 since playing Bangladesh in have been a regulation catch. Taylor was the August and the last of his 21 centuries was most successful West Indies bowler with three against Sri Lanka in June 2013. Simmons and for 71. Ireland started the day in the best possi- Sammy gave the innings respectability with a ble fashion, winning the toss and ripping out the West Indies sixth-wicket record stand of 154. West Indies premier batsmen. Dockrell, who fin- Simmons-whose uncle Phil, the former West ished with three for 50, claimed the prized wick- Indies batsman, is Ireland’s coach-was eventually ets of Gayle (36), Samuels (21) and Ramdin (one) dismissed in the last over for 104, his second

Already played At Christchurch

Pool A

The West Indies were powerless to contain the onslaught, going through eight bowlers, as the Irish batsmen clobbered six sixes and 34 fours.

New Zealand 331-6 (Corey Anderson 75, Brendon McCullum 65, Kane Williamson 57) v Sri Lanka 233 all out (Lahiru Thirimanne 65) New Zealand won by 98 runs

Joyce, on 42, was dropped by Darren Bravo when he belted Holder towards the boundary,

At Melbourne

  • in the space of just eight deliveries.
  • one-day international century. —AFP

Australia 342-9 (Aaron Finch 135, Glenn Maxwell 66, George Bailey 55; Steven Finn 5-71) v England 231 all out (James Taylor 98 not out; Mitchell Marsh 5-53) Australia won by 111 runs

Preview

Pool B

Why can’t Pakistan beat India

At Hamilton

South Africa 339-4 (David Miller 138 not out, JP Duminy 115 not out) v Zimbabwe 277 all out (Hamilton Masakadza 80, Chamu Chibhabha 64) South Africa won by 62 runs

in World Cup?

At Adelaide

ADELAIDE: If Pakistan were looking for answers for its wretched losing streak against arch-rivals India in the World Cup, they need to cut to the chase and begin with the captain’s luck with the toss.
When Misbah-ul Haq called incorrectly before
Sunday’s 76-run defeat at the Adelaide Oval, it was the fifth time in six World Cup outings that Pakistan had lost the toss to India.
In all those five games, Pakistan failed to chase down the target. The only time India batted second, at the Centurion in 2003, the genius of Sachin Tendulkar took the game away from Pakistan.
Former Pakistan captain Inzamam-ul Haq is convinced India’s luck with the toss has played a major role in its 6-0 scoreline against the old foes in the sport’s premier 50-over showpiece.
“I believe batting first is always an advantage as batsmen tend to get under pressure while chasing in big games,” Inzamam wrote in a guest column for the tournament’s official website.
“I can’t find a suitable word to describe what goes wrong when we chase against India, but it’s more like a mental blockage of players.” On Sunday, after Virat Kohli’s 107 had set up a 301-run target, Pakistan folded up for 224 with only skipper Misbah contributing a valiant 76 off 84 balls.
In previous World Cup games against India, Pakistan failed to chase down totals of 216 in Sydney (1992), 287 in Bangalore (1996), 227 in Manchester (1999) and 260 in Mohali four years ago.
India’s latest win came without the reassuring presence of retired batting superstar Tendulkar, who had proved a stumbling block for Pakistan in at least four of the five previous encounters.
In 2003, Tendulkar tamed a star-studded pace battery of Wasim Akram, Waqar Younis and Shoaib Akhtar to fashion India’s six-wicket win with a scintillating 98 off 75 balls after Pakistan had piled up 273-7. Misbah was at a loss to explain another failure on Sunday.
“I don’t know what happened,” he said. “But it is important to forget this loss and look to the future. The game is gone now, so we have to just concentrate on the next one.”
Six straight losses will hurt more because Pakistan enjoy a superior overall one-day record over India, having won 72 games and lost 51. Indian captain Mahendra Singh Dhoni had some comforting words for Pakistan, saying the unbeaten run would not stay forever. — AFP

India 300-7 (Virat Kohli 107, Suresh Raina 74, Shikhar Dhawan 73; Sohail Khan 5-55) v Pakistan 224 all out (Misbah-ul-Haq 76) India won by 76 runs

Still to play:

Feb 17 New Zealand v Scotland, Dunedin (11:00 local/22:00 GMT, Feb 16) Feb 18 Bangladesh v Afghanistan, Canberra (14:30 local/03:30 GMT) Feb 19 Zimbabwe v UAE, Nelson (11:00 local/22:00 GMT, Feb 18) Feb 20 England v New Zealand, Wellington (14:00 local/01:00 GMT) Feb 21 Pakistan v West Indies, Christchurch (11:00 local/22:00 GMT, Feb 20) Feb 21 Australia v Bangladesh, Brisbane (13:30 local/03:30 GMT) Feb 22 Sri Lanka v Afghanistan, Dunedin (11:00 local/22:00 GMT, Feb 21) Feb 22 South Africa v India, Melbourne (14:30 local/03:30 GMT) Feb 23 England v Scotland, Christchurch (11:00 local/22:00 GMT, Feb 22) Feb 24 West Indies v Zimbabwe, Canberra (14:30 local/03:30 GMT) Feb 25 Ireland v UAE, Brisbane (13:30 local/03:30 GMT) Feb 26 Afghanistan v Scotland, Dunedin (11:00 local/22:00 GMT, Feb 25) Feb 26 Sri Lanka v Bangladesh, Melbourne (14:30 local/03:30 GMT) Feb 27 South Africa v West Indies, Sydney (14:30 local/03:30 GMT) Feb 28 India v UAE, Perth (14:30 local/06:30 GMT) Feb 28 Australia v New Zealand, Auckland (14:00 local/01:00 GMT) Mar 01 England v Sri Lanka, Wellington (11:00 local/22:00 GMT, Feb 28) Mar 01 Pakistan v Zimbabwe, Brisbane (13:30 local/03:30 GMT) Mar 03 South Africa v Ireland, Canberra (14:30 local/03:30 GMT) Mar 04 Pakistan v UAE, Napier (14:00 local/01:00 GMT) Mar 04 Australia v Afghanistan, Perth (14:30 local/06:30 GMT) Mar 05 Bangladesh v Scotland, Nelson (11:00 local/22:00 GMT, March 04) Mar 06 India v West Indies, Perth (14:30 local/06:30 GMT) Mar 07 South Africa v Pakistan, Auckland (14:00 local/01:00 GMT) Mar 07 Zimbabwe v Ireland, Hobart (14:30 local/03:30 GMT) Mar 08 New Zealand v Afghanistan, Napier (11:00 local/22:00 GMT, March 07) Mar 08 Australia v Sri Lanka, Sydney (14:30 local/03:30 GMT) Mar 09 England v Bangladesh, Adelaide (14:00 local/03:30 GMT) Mar 10 India v Ireland, Hamilton (14:00 local/01:00 GMT) Mar 11 Sri Lanka v Scotland, Hobart (14:30 local/03:30 GMT) Mar 12 South Africa v UAE, Wellington (14:00 local/01:00 GMT) Mar 13 Bangladesh v New Zealand, Hamilton (14:00 local/01:00 GMT) Mar 13 England v Afghanistan, Sydney (14:30 local/03:30 GMT) Mar 14 India v Zimbabwe, Auckland (14:00 local/01:00 GMT) Mar 14 Australia v Scotland, Hobart (14:30 local/03:30 GMT) Mar 15 West Indies v UAE, Napier (11:00 local/22:00 GMT, March 14) Mar 15 Pakistan v Ireland, Adelaide (14:00 local/03:30 GMT)

Preston Mommsen

New Zealand wary of Scotland

DUNEDIN: Co-hosts New Zealand face a ly focused, as they were against Sri Lanka, potential World Cup “banana skin” against to make sure they do not slip up,” he said.

  • minnows Scotland in Dunedin today, for-
  • Scotland have displayed impressive

mer Black Caps skipper Stephen Fleming form this month in the lead-up to the tourhas warned. nament, scoring 310 against the West
New Zealand justified their tag as one Indies and cruising to a 179-run win over of the pre-tournament favorites with a fellow associates Ireland.

  • comprehensive 98-run win over Sri Lanka
  • Captain Preston Mommsen said the

in their opening match and will be keen to Scots were taking inspiration from Ireland’s maintain momentum against Scotland. giant-killing exploits at previous World The Scots have not won a match in two Cups, when they claimed the scalps of previous World Cup campaigns (1999 and Pakistan (2007) and England (2011). 2007), with bookmakers rating them 12-1 “They’ve found a way to stand up to the outsiders to upset the in-form New big teams and we’ll be looking to do the

  • Zealanders.
  • same thing,” he said. “We’re not here to fill

But Fleming said the Pool A clash was “a in the numbers.” banana-skin type match where, if it was allowed, complacency could be a danger”.
South African-born Mommsen said he was part of the best-prepared team to ever

Quarter-finals

Mar 18 Sydney (14:30 local/03:30 GMT) Mar 19 Melbourne (14:30 local/03:30 GMT) Mar 20 Adelaide (14:00 local/03:30 GMT) Mar 21 Wellington (14:00 local/01:00 GMT)

He pointed out that Scotland, an ICC leave Scottish shores. They are coached by associate nation, lost by just one run in former Black Cap Grant Bradburn, assisted October to a New Zealand XI which includ- by gritty ex-England batsman Paul ed eight of the Black Caps’ World Cup Collingwood, who has helped toughen the squad.
Only an inspired last-ball run out spared

Semi-finals

Mar 24 Auckland (14:00 local/01:00 GMT) Mar 26 Sydney (14:30 local/03:30 GMT)

mental aspects of their game.
New Zealand coach Mike Hesson said
New Zealand’s blushes on that occasion shock results were inevitable at the World and Fleming said the Black Caps could not Cup and the Black Caps, more accustomed

  • treat their opposition lightly.
  • to being labelled underdogs, were deter-

“New Zealand will have to be complete- mined not to fall victim to one.—AFP

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