Bennett rips through feeble Kenya

Hamish Bennett might never have even played in this game had Kyle Mills been passed fit after picking up a minor niggle in his back. In the event, he proved the catalyst for a remarkable collapse by the Kenyans, bowling with menace and adopting a canny, stump-attacking line.

Brought on after an opening experiment with Nathan McCullum, Bennett was pumped up from the start but in his first over - the 10th of the innings - there was no hint of the carnage to come as initially he was a touch too short and the Kenyan batsmen had little trouble working him around for singles. As soon as he found the right length, however, no answer could be found by an inexperienced line-up and Bennett soon had the innings in disarray. Bustling in and bowling with his characteristic open-chested, slightly awkward action he fired one full and straight at Waters, the ball shooting through at a low shin height to pin the batsman in front of his stumps.

Two balls later, at the start of Bennett's next over, Steve Tikolo had his stumps shattered by the ball of the day - a full, fast delivery that wasn't quite a yorker but slipped under a lazy swish all the same to send the middle and off stumps cartwheeling. With the ball keeping low and starting to nip off the seam Collins Obuya was the next batsman to be rapped on the front pad, right in front of middle. Perhaps out of desperation, a completely superfluous review was called for but there was no second life for Obuya and the innings sank even further when Maurice Ouma was dispatched in identical fashion in Bennett's next over to leave Kenya staring into the abyss at 49 for 5. Kenya captain Jimmy Kamande survived Bennett's fifth over and the bowler was then given a rest, with figures of 4 for 16 to his name. He will surely face stiffer competition as the tournament proceeds, but this was a dream start for him in his very first World Cup game for New Zealand.