Tuesday 9th February, 2010 13 Taylor seals series for Black Caps ew Zealand Oval in Dunedin to take an unassailable 2-0 Mahmudullah in the deep going for the match- contin- lead with one match of the limited-overs series winning six in what turned out to be the penul- Nued to go. timate over. their domi- While the hosts knocked off the target of The finale was a bit of an anticlimax as Neil nance over 184 with ease, they will be disappointed they Broome quickly came and went for a duck leav- Bangladesh with did not bowl out Bangladesh inside the 50 ing Daniel Vettori (four not out) to hit the win- a five-wicket win overs or restrict them to a much lower ning runs. in the second total than the 183 for eight they Shafiul Islam (three for 49 off seven overs) one-day inter- managed given the visitors were 46 for was Bangladesh's chief wicket-taker claiming national. six less than halfway through their the scalps of Brendon McCullum, Taylor and Having innings. Broome. already In the end the win was comfort- Rubel Hossain took the other two but con- thrashed the able enough though as New Zealand ceded 68 runs in the process. subcontinent cruised to 185 for five in 27.3 overs The fact Bangladesh made it to a semi- side in the one- with Ross Taylor (78) and Martin respectable total was only due to the sterling off Twenty20 Guptill (32) the main contribu- efforts of wicket-keeper batsman Mushfiqur and the opening tors. Rahim (86) and Naeem Islam (43) who set a one-day match Taylor played with his cus- Bangladesh record with a seventh-wicket stand in Napier, tomary panache smacking six of 101. Daniel Vettori's boundaries and five sixes in The pair had to dig deep early in their side kept up the his 52-ball innings. innings after the loss of so many wickets but pressure on the He appeared set to get once the second drinks break had been taken visitors at New Zealand across the after the 35th over and with the score at 76 for University line alongside James six they cut loose and took it to the New Franklin (20 not out) Zealand bowlers who up until that point had but holed out to dominated proceedings. Daryl Tuffey and Ian Butler, in particular, Ross Taylor puts one suffered during the batting powerplay which away in characteristic Bangladesh took with just six overs to go. manner, during the 2nd Tuffey's final three overs went for 35 runs to ODI against blow his figures out to one for 55 from nine Bangladesh at overs, while Butler conceded 33 runs in his last Dunedin, February 8, three overs - including 17 off the last six deliv- 2010. eries of the innings - to finish with three for 45 off 10. Brief scores: Bangladesh 183 for 8 (Mushfiqur 86, Butler 3-43, McKay 2-17) New Zealand 185 for 5 (Taylor 78, Guptill 32, Islam 3-49,Hossain 2-68) (cricket365.com) Afridi antics a black day in Magic use 19-0 burst in cricket: Alam Lahore: Pakistan," 3rd to top Celtics 96-89 Beleaguered Intikhab told the Pakistan coach media on Sunday. Magic beat Boston 96-89 on Sunday, Intikhab Alam on "It was a black moving ahead of the Celtics and into Sunday termed day for cricket." second place in the Eastern Conference. Shahid Afridi's ball However, tampering incident Alam backed Carter scored nine points during a as unfortunate and Afridi's claim that rally that began after Rajon Rondo's 3- said it was one of ball tampering is pointer gave the Celtics a 60-51 lead the blackest day in a universal thing with 7:17 left in the third quarter - world cricket. Shahid Afridi but said his way Boston's fourth and final field goal of "It was a most of doing it was the period. unfortunate incident and it wrong. The Magic turned a 51-40 halftime damaged the image of (PTI) deficit into a 76-62 lead after the third and stayed in front by at least five points the rest of the way. Dwight Howard had 16 points and 13 rebounds for Orlando. Rondo scored 17 points and Ray Allen added 13 for the Celtics. Raptors 115, Kings 104 At Toronto, Chris Bosh had 36 points and 11 rebounds, and Andrea Bargnani scored 22 points as Toronto extended Sacramento's losing streak to Orlando Magic's Vince Carter, left, six games. shoots over Boston Celtics' Kendrick Hedo Turkoglu and Antoine Wright Perkins in the first quarter of an NBA each added 16 points as Toronto topped basketball game, Sunday, Feb. 7, 2010, 100 points for the 16th consecutive in Boston. The Magic won 96-89. (AP game and won its seventh straight at Photo/Michael Dwyer) home. Kevin Martin scored 24 points and BOSTON (AP) - Vince Carter led a Spencer Hawes had 14 for the Kings, 19-0 surge in the third quarter and fin- who have won just three of their past ished with 20 points as the Orlando 20 and are 3-22 on the road. Imran, Rameez back Afridi's tampering claim ex-skipper Rameez Raja feel the same. Afridi, who has been banned for two Twenty20 matches for tampering with Imran Khan the ball in a one-dayer against Australia Karachi: Shahid Afridi is not the in Perth, has claimed that all teams try only one who thinks that all teams such tactics to exploit the conditions to tamper with the ball. their advantage. Pakistan's World Cup winning for- mer captain Imran Khan and another (PTI).