Stelling, ten Doeschate shine in Dutch win over Scots
BASSETERRE, St Kitts (AFP): Paceman Billy Stelling returned a career-best 3-12 and Ryan ten Doeshate hit a half-century to help the Netherlands race to an easy eight-wicket World Cup Group A win over Scotland here on Thursday.
Ten Doeshate hit an unbeaten 68-ball 70 and added 103 for an unbroken third wicket stand with Bas Zuiderent (43no) as the Netherlands achieve the 137-run target with more than half of their overs left with consummate ease at Warner Park.
Earlier, Stelling grabbed 3-12 off eight economical overs as the Scots were bundled out for 136 in 34.1 overs.
Ten Doeschate hit off-spinner Majid Haq for three consecutive boundaries for the winning runs to loud applause from some 1,000 Dutch fans who had come to see their team's last match in cricket's showpiece tournament.
The win was the Netherlands' second in three World Cups after they beat Namibia in 2003, while the Scots finished win-less in their second Cup appearance.
John Blain had given the Scots a good start by dismissing Darron Reekers (nine) and Eric Szwarczynski (12) by the sixth over but ten Doeschate and Zuiderent were clinical and avoided any more losses.
Doeschate hit 13 boundaries and a six during his knock.
Earlier, Stelling dismissed Navdeep Poonia with the second ball of the innings before accounting for Gavin Hamilton (four) and Dougie Brown off successive deliveries in his fourth to rout the Scotland.
Stelling missed the Netherlands' second match against South Africa last week but came into his own right from the start to laid foundation for his team's win.
Tail-ender Glenn Rogers top-scored for Scotland with 26 which included five boundaries.
Neil McCallum (24) and Colin Smith (19) gave their team's total some respectability by adding 38 runs for the sixth wicket after they were reeling at 39-5.
Ryan Watson (16) John Blain (18 not out) and Colin Smith (19) also made double figures. The Netherlands bowled accurately after their stand-in captain Jeroen Smits won the toss and elected to field.
The Netherlands regular captain Luuk van Troost dropped himself on lack of form after his team went down to Australia and South Africa, the two top-ranked sides in the world, by 229 and 221 runs respectively.
South Africa and Australia, who have already qualified for the next round of Super Eight from the group, meet each other in a high-profile match here on Saturday.
Complete scoreboard:
Scotland:
N. Poonia c Smits b Stelling 0
Majid Haq b Reekers 6
R. Watson c and b de Leede 16
G. Hamilton lbw b Stelling 4
D. Brown lbw b Stelling 0
N. McCallum c Stelling b Jonkman 24
C. Smith b Jonkman 19
C. Wright not out 1
J. Blain not out 18
G. Rogers c Smits b Kashif 26
P. Hoffman c ten Doeschate b D. van Bunge 7
Extras (lb5, nb2, w8) 15
Total 136
Fall of wickets: 1-0 (Poonia); 2-9 (Haq); 3-15 (Hamilton); 4-15 (Brown); 5-39 (Watson); 6-77 (Smith); 7-83 (McCallum); 8-83 (Wright); 9-117 (Rogers)
Bowling: Stelling 8-3-12-3 (2nb, 1w); Reekers 6-0-23-1 (2w); T. de Leede 4-0-24-1 (2w); Jonkman 5-1-22-2 (1w); Kashif 7-2-29-2; ten Doeschate 3-0-17-0 (2w); D. van Bunge 1.1-0-4-1
Overs: 34.1
Netherlands: (target 137 off 50 overs)
B. Zuiderent not out 43
D. Reekers c Wright b Blain 9
E. Szwarczynski c Smith b Blain 12
R. ten Doeschate not out 70
Extras (lb4, w2) 6
Total (for two wkts) 140
Fall of wickets: 1-18 (Reekers); 2-37 (Szwarczynski).
Bowling: Hoffman 4-0-26-0; Blain 5-0-29-2 (1w); Wright 4-1-17-0; Rogers 3-1-15-0; Brown 4-0-20-0; Haq 3.5-0-29-0 (1w)
Overs: 23.5
Result: Netherlands won by eight wickets
Points: Netherlands 2, Scotland 0
Toss: Netherlands
Umpires: Tony Hill (NZL) and Asoka de Silva (SRI)
3rd umpire: Mark Benson (ENG); Reserve umpire: Steve Bucknor (WIS)
Match referee: Javagal Srinath (IND)
Vincent ends drought as New Zealand overpower Canada
By Julian Guyer
GROS ISLET, St Lucia (AFP): Lou Vincent found his form after two noughts with a hundred as New Zealand made it three World Cup wins out of three in Group C with a 114-run success against Canada at the Beausejour Cricket Ground here Thursday.
Vincent's 101 was the centrepiece of New Zealand's World Cup record score of 363 for five.
The innings also saw Brendon McCullum (52 not out) score the fastest World Cup 50 of all-time, off 20 balls with five sixes and one four, as Canada's attack wilted.
Canada captain John Davison, who four years ago scored the fastest World Cup hundred, off 67 balls, counter-attacked by making 52 before he was caught and bowled by paceman Michael Mason.
"It's been a good week, we're really happy," said New Zealand skipper Stephen Fleming, who contributed 66 to his side's largest World Cup total to which Canada managed 249-9 in reply.
"Even today, we were put under pressure with the new ball, Lou Vincent hit some runs (101) ... and we've come through the week pretty well."
New Zealand's total was also a Beausejour ground record in one-day internationals, coming just two days after they'd posted the previous best here of 331 for seven against Kenya.
Davison went on the offensive against an attack missing rested fast bowler Shane Bond.
Off the fifth ball, from Daryl Tuffey, playing his first match of the tournament, Davison pulled a six and he later weighed in with four succesive fours off Mason.
Left-hander Geoff Barnett then got in on the act with four off Tuffey.
By then Davison had been bowled off a Mason no-ball and there was further frustration for the Black Caps when Barnett, on 15, was dropped by a diving McCullum off Tuffey.
Canada's 50 came in just 30 balls before, with the score on 76, they lost their first wicket.
Going for another boundary to add to his six and 10 fours, Davison miscued the ball straight up in their air and Mason made no mistake.
Davison had faced a mere 31 balls.
The run-rate slowed and McCullum made amends for his earlier error by holding an edged cut from Barnett (40) off left-arm spinner Daniel Vettori to leave Canada 110 for two.
Ian Billcliff, who has played for several New Zealand first-class sides, made 50 off 55 balls with four four fours.
But one ball later he was bowled by medium-pacer Scott Styris and from their Canada's innings fell away.
However, their total of 249 for was their best at the World Cup, surpassing the 228 for seven they made in Sunday's 51-run defeat by England and once more they took the game to the last over.
This was a 'dead' match, with New Zealand already through to the Super Eights and Canada unable to qualify for the second phase after losing to Kenya and England.
Vincent, after Davison won the toss, struggled early on against some fine outswing bowling from former West Indies fast bowler Anderson Cummins.
However, he got off the mark in fine style at the start of the third over when he lofted Cummins for six over extra-cover.
Both Vincent and New Zealand captain Stephen Fleming, who made 66, opened up before a stand worth 142 ended when Fleming chipped left-arm spinner Kevin Sandher, making his World Cup debut, to Ian Billcliff at mid-wicket Vincent's single off Sunil Dhaniram took him to a hundred off 115 balls with one six and nine fours.
But two balls later Vincent chipped a return catch to off-spinner Davison. McCullum, however, made sure the runs kept coming by lofting Sandher onto the roof of the stand at mid-wicket while Jacob Oram (35 not out) drove Cummins's last ball down the ground for six.
Both batsmen cleared the boundary with ease as 22 runs came off the last over from Sunil Dhaniram, the left-arm spinner conceding an expensive 72 in eight overs.
Final scoreboard:
New Zealand Innings
L. Vincent c and b Davison 101
S. Fleming c Billcliff b Sandher 66
P. Fulton lbw b Sandher 47
S. Styris c Bagai b Samad 28
C. McMillan c Samad b Davison 10
J. Oram not out 35
B. McCullum not out 52
Extras (b1, lb5, w17, nb1) 24
Total (5 wkts, 50 overs) 363
Fall of wickets: 1-142 (Fleming), 2-222 (Fulton), 3-253 (Styris), 4-266 (McMillan), 5-278 (Vincent)
Did not bat: D Vettori, D Tuffey, J Patel, M Mason
Bowling: Cummins 10-1-59-0 (1nb, 4w); Bhatti 5.3-1-25-0 (3w); Samad 2.3-0-31-1 (1w); Osinde 4-0-45-0 (1w); Sandher 10-0-58-2; Davison 10-0-67-2 (2w); Dhaniram 8-0-72-0
Canada Innings
J. Davison c and b Mason 52
G. Barnett c McCullum b Vettori 40
A. Bagai b Vettori 37
I. Billcliff b Styris 50
A. Samad run out 9
A. Mulla lbw b Vettori 0
S. Dhaniram ret hurt 17
U. Bhatti b Patel 10
A. Cummins not out 9
K. Sandher b Patel 2
H. Osinde b Patel 0
Extras (b4, lb5, w5, nb9) 23
Total (all out, 49.2 overs) 249
Fall of wickets: 1-76 (Davison), 2-110 (Barnett), 3-188 (Bagai), 4-201 (Billcliff), 5-206 (Mulla), 6-207 (Samad), 7-245 (Bhatti), 8-249 (Sandher), 9-249 (Osinde)
Bowling: Tuffey 6-0-40-0 (1nb, 2w); Mason 8-0-60-1 (4nb, 1w); Oram 7-1-16-0 (1nb); Patel 9.2-0-25-3; Vettori 10-0-57-3 (2nb); Styris 6-0-21-1 (2w); McMillan 3-0-21-0
Toss: Canada
Result: New Zealand won by 114 runs
Points: New Zealand 2 Canada 0
Umpires: Billy Doctrove (WIS) and Asad Rauf (PAK)
TV umpire: Rudi Koertzen (RSA)
Match referee: Mike Procter (RSA)
Reserve umpire: Peter Parker (AUS) |
