WEDNESDAY, FEBRUARY 18, 2015 Shaky New Zealand down brave Scotland DUNEDIN: New Zealand limped to a three- wicket win over Scotland yesterday, maintaining World Cup momentum only after the minnows gave the co-hosts’ much-vaunted batting line- up a bloody nose. New Zealand skittled Scotland out for 142 after putting them into bat, effectively ensuring there would be no repeat of Monday’s match when Ireland, another non-Test nation, downed the West Indies. While the Black Caps overhauled their target in 24.5 overs, they could have been in trouble if set a stiffer chase after a strong SCOREBOARD effort with the ball saw Scotland take seven wickets. DUNEDIN, New Zealand: Final scoreboard in the World Cup Pool A match between New Zealand and A rash of New Zealand batsmen threw away Scotland at University Oval yesterday: their wickets chasing glory with wild shots, showing none of the controlled aggression that Scotland New Zealand has made them one of the tournament favorites. K.Coetzer c Elliott b Southee 1 M.Guptill c Cross b Wardlaw 17 Captain Brendon McCullum said they could C.MacLeod lbw b Boult 0 B.McCullum c Cross b Wardlaw 15 H.Gardiner lbw b Boult 0 not afford to be so wasteful in Wellington on K.Williamson c Cross b Davey 38 Friday, when they face an England side desper- M.Machan c McCullum b Anderson 56 R.Taylor c Taylor b Haq 9 P.Mommsen lbw b Southee 0 ate to bounce back from a 111-run loss to G.Elliott c Cross b Wardlaw 29 R.Berrington c Milne b Anderson 50 Australia. “It was a really good performance with M.Cross c Ronchi b Anderson 14 C.Anderson c Wardlaw b Davey 11 L.Ronchi c Gardiner b Davey 12 the ball-with the bat, we showed glimpses but J.Davey not out 11 we have to improve,” he said. “England will be a R.Taylor st Ronchi b Vettori 4 D.Vettori not out 8 M.Haq c Taylor b Vettori 0 A.Milne not out 1 challenge-they’re hurting, they’ll be tough to I.Wardlaw lbw b Vettori 0 Extras: (lb1, w5) 6 beat and we’ll have to play incredibly well.” Extras: (b1, w5) 6 Total (7 wickets, 24.5 overs) 146 The Black Caps fielded an unchanged line-up Total (all out, 36.2 overs) 142 Did not bat: Tim Southee, Trent Boult from their 98-run win over Sri Lanka, determined Fall of wickets: 1-1 (MacLeod), 2-1 (Gardiner), 3-12 Fall of wickets: 1-18 (Guptill), 2-48 (McCullum), 3- not to drop their standards against unfancied (Coetzer), 4-12 (Mommsen), 5-109 (Machan), 6- 66 (Taylor), 4-106 (Williamson), 5-117 (Elliott), 6- opposition. 117 (Berrington), 7-129 (Cross), 8-136 (Taylor), 9- 142 (Haq), 10-142 (Wardlaw) 133 (Anderson), 7-137 (Ronchi) They appeared set for a crushing win in per- Bowling: Southee 8-3-35-2, Boult 6-1-21-2 (4w), Bowling: Wardlaw 9.5-0-57-3 (1w), Taylor 4-0-27-0 fect conditions at Dunedin’s University Oval, Milne 7-0-32-0 (1w), Vettori 8.2-1-24-3, Elliott 2-0- (2w), Davey 7-0-40-3 (2w), Haq 4-0-21-1 claiming early wickets to leave Scotland reeling 11-0, Anderson 5-1-18-3 Result: New Zealand win by three wickets. at 12 for four. Matt Machan (56) and Richie Berrington (50) were the standouts with a 97-run fifth-wicket partnership in a Scottish innings that featured World Cup results and standings five ducks four of them golden. Corey Anderson and Dan Vettori took three Pool A wickets apiece as Scotland folded after 36.2 At Dunedin overs, with Trent Boult and Tim Southee coming Scotland 142 all out in 36.2 overs (Matt Machan 56, Richie Berrington 50) v New Zealand 146-7. close to snatching hat-tricks. New Zealand won by three wickets New Zealand made hard work of chasing 143 on pitch were they scored 360 against Sri Lanka Played won lost tied N/R points run rate last month, with Iain Wardlaw and Josh Davey Pool A both taking three wickets for Scotland. New Zealand 2 2 0 0 0 4 +2.62 The win was not pretty but man-of-the- Australia 1 1 0 0 0 2 +2.22 match Boult said New Zealand “got the job Sri Lanka 1 0 1 0 0 0 -1.96 done”. McCullum (15), Martin Guptill (17) and England 1 0 1 0 0 0 -2.22 Ross Taylor (9) all went cheaply, leaving New Scotland 1 0 1 0 0 0 -3.04 Zealand 66 for three early in the innings. Kane Afghanistan 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 Williamson made a good start and reached 38 Bangladesh 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 before he too suffered a rush of blood to the head. Pool B Luke Ronchi, who scored an unbeaten 170 India 1 1 0 0 0 2 +1.52 against Sri Lanka at the venue last month, man- South Africa 1 1 0 0 0 2 +1.24 aged just 12 before he was dismissed trying to DUNEDIN: New Zealand spinner Daniel Vettori sends a delivery down to the Scotland batsman Ireland 1 1 0 0 0 2 +0.62 cart Davey out of the ground. during their 2015 Cricket World Cup match. —AFP West Indies 1 0 1 0 0 0 -0.62 Scotland skipper Preston Mommsen, who Zimbabwe 1 0 1 0 0 0 -1.24 was among those dismissed without scoring, what they are capable of, but we couldn’t go on The loss leaves Scotland still searching for a Pakistan 1 0 1 0 0 0 -1.52 said the poor start derailed his side’s chance of from there and were below par,” he said. World Cup win in their third appearance at the UAE 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 an upset win. “Unfortunately we couldn’t get the final three tournament. Their next match is against England “Matt and Richie batted well and showed wickets, but I’m very proud of the performance.” in Christchurch on Monday. —AFP Already played Pool A Feb 14 At Christchurch Afghanistan set to debut New Zealand 331-6 (Corey Anderson 75, Brendon McCullum 65, Kane Williamson 57) v Sri Lanka Windies on 233 all out (Lahiru Thirimanne 65). in World Cup tournament New Zealand won by 98 runs sliding scale Feb 14 CANBERRA: Mohammad Nabi has come a Mushin Dadarkara lined up to meet the long way from the refugee camps of central team with his eight-year-old son Baha. “I am At Melbourne of decline Australia 342-9 (Aaron Finch 135, Glenn Maxwell 66, George Bailey 55; Steven Finn 5-71) v England Asia where he, along with other children dis- an Indian supporter, but I love (the) placed by war, whiled away the hours playing Afghanistan team as well,” Dadarkara told 231 all out (James Taylor 98 not out; Mitchell Marsh 5-53). Australia won by 111 runs SYDNEY: Darren Sammy needed treatment on his back, cricket. Australian Broadcasting Corp. radio. “In spite Andre Russell pulled up after bowling an embarrassing The 30-year-old captain of Afghanistan’s of the problems in their country, they have long-hop while fresh-faced captain Jason Holder speared national cricket team knows he will carry the come up (a) long way and they have done Pool B a ball so wide that first slip was placed in immediate peril. Feb 15 expectations of supporters in his war-torn very well in cricket.” homeland today when he leads his lineup Bangladesh captain Masrafe Mortaza said In three crude snapshots, the decline of West Indies At Hamilton cricket was perfectly captured and another miserable low South Africa 339-4 (David Miller 138 not out, JP Duminy 115 not out) v into its first World Cup match in the 50-over his team respected the Afghans as oppo- format. nents, particularly after losing a low-scoring point-defeat by Ireland at the World Cup on Monday- Zimbabwe 277 all out (Hamilton Masakadza 80, Chamu Chibhabha 64). South Africa won by 62 racked up. runs The Afghan team goes into the match as match to Afghanistan at the Asian Cup last underdogs against Bangladesh, which has March. Forty years ago, the West Indies won the first World only been playing among the elite cricket We “have taken them very seriously Cup and then defended it four years later before finishing Feb 15 runners-up in 1983. At Adelaide nations for 15 years. because we respect them not (as) beginners, Just getting to compete on the manicured we respect them all the country,” said Since then, their one-day pickings have been mighty India 300-7 (Virat Kohli 107, Suresh Raina 74, Shikhar Dhawan 73; Sohail Khan 5-55) v Pakistan 224 slim, a Champions Trophy victory in 2004 and a Twenty20 all out (Misbah-ul-Haq 76).India won by 76 runs grass of Manuka Oval in the Australian capital Mortaza, who knows what it’s like to be part Canberra is an achievement against the odds of a team trying to prove itself in the interna- world title in 2012. “We’re watching the death row of West Indies cricket,” Feb 16 for Nabi’s team. It’s half a world away from the tional arena. He made his one-day interna- tweeted Melbourne radio station, SEN 1116 following At Nelson refugee camp where the all-rounder was born tional debut in 2001 - a year after Bangladesh Monday’s four-wicket loss to Ireland in Nelson on New West Indies 304-7 (Lendl Simmons 102, Darren Sammy 89) v Ireland 307-6 in the strife-prone Pakistani city of Peshawar joined the elite test-playing nations - and has (Paul Stirling 92, Ed Joyce 84, Niall O’Brien 79 not out).