Apart from keeping Pakistan's start steady at one end, Sarfraz Ahmed also freed up Umar Akmal to be used elsewhere, to provide his team the balance it lacked till now

Shakib Al Hasan and Mushfiqur Rahim have been the rocks in the middle order, but it was the top-order partnership, the kind Tamim Iqbal and Mamudullah stitched together, that has been missing from Bangladesh's chases

Although the lead up to the World Cup was not perfect for Kyle Coetzer, he found some form in the warm-ups and has scored regularly to lead Scotland's case in the tournament

Plays of the day from the Group A match between Scotland and Bangladesh in Nelson

Preston Mommsen has said he expects Bangladesh to field a spin-heavy attack before adding that Scotland had worked hard to improve that area of their game over the past few months

Bangladesh are used to the roar of an expectant crowd - even in Canberra and Melbourne they had a taste of that - but Nelson will provide a very different environment for a crucial match

Almost a year on from engineering a landmark win against a Test-playing nation, Samiullah Shenwari was the architect of yet another historical step in the growth of Afghanistan cricket - their first World Cup win

As their side stumbled towards victory, Afghanistan's fans helped provide the final impetus and turned Dunedin into a corner of Kandahar

Plays of the Day from the Afghanistan v Scotland World Cup 2015 Group A match, in Dunedin

The two games where both came close to registering their respective maiden World Cup wins were played at the University Oval in Dunedin. It will be in Dunedin where one team will walk ahead

Rajasthan lost six wickets "unexpectedly", Man-of-the-Match Shrikant Mundhe said, giving Maharashtra the push to go for the win

A six-wicket haul from Shrikant Mundhe sent Maharashtra on their way to a nine-wicket win against Rajasthan in Pune

A counter-attacking partnership for the seventh wicket between Chirag Khurana and Shrikant Mundhe lifted Maharashtra from a position of uncertainty to one of parity after a gripping day

At 117 for 6 in 50 overs, Rajasthan had dug themselves into a hole. However, a fighting century from Puneet Yadav and an equally gritty effort from Aristh Singhvi saved immediate embarrassment

After Rajasthan and Maharashtra both turned their Ranji campaigns around with big wins in the previous round, Pankaj Singh and Rohit Motwani, the two captains, conceded that seamers were likely to play a key role ahead of the teams' Group B clash in Pune

Mark Craig ran through the Sri Lanka tail to complete one of New Zealand's most remarkable Test wins after they had conceded a heavy first-innings lead

Kane Williamson and BJ Watling used the slow grind to drive away the thoughts Sri Lanka had of winning the Wellington Test and levelling the series

An unbeaten 94-run stand between Kane Williamson and BJ Watling helped New Zealand take 118-run lead, but Sri Lanka were still ahead

Kumar Sangakkara smashed his 11th double-century, one short of Don Bradman's record 12, to transform the 143-run deficit at the start of the day into a game-changing 135-run lead

Sri Lanka's top order slumped against the swinging ball after their bowlers had restricted New Zealand to 221 in the first innings