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Guptill repays the faith, and then some

New Zealand's management believed in Martin Guptill's match-winning ability and stood by him through a nearly two-year period of rocky form. Even they couldn't have predicted he would vindicate them with a double-century in a World Cup quarter-final

21-Mar-2015•Andrew McGlashan in Wellington

Vettori's stunner and Guptill's illegal run

Daniel Vettori's one-handed blinder at the boundary among the plays of the day from the fourth quarter-final

21-Mar-2015•Andrew McGlashan and George Binoy

Guptill scales many mountains

Top World Cup score, the top score by a New Zealand batsman, and a glut of boundaries among the stats highlights from the fourth World Cup quarter-final

21-Mar-2015•Bishen Jeswant

Guptill 237* overwhelms West Indies

21-Mar-2015•ESPNcricinfo staff

How aggression pays off for McCullum

As a batsman, he's bent on taking the fight to the opposition, and it's much the same with his captaincy

20-Mar-2015•Aakash Chopra

West Indies in New Zealand's pace den

New Zealand fast bowlers have dominated oppositions at the Wellington Regoinal Stadium in recent years

20-Mar-2015•Shiva Jayaraman

The death overs dilemma

With the trend of teams saving their wickets for the end overs, the battle between New Zealand's bowlers and West Indies' big hitters may well shape the Wellington quarter-final

19-Mar-2015•Andrew McGlashan in Wellington

Incomparable New Zealand against incalculable West Indies

While New Zealand's impressive and unbeaten run make them clear favourites, West Indies are as capable as any team of pulling a performance out of nothing

19-Mar-2015•Andrew McGlashan

Hold back your best player

Selectorial wizardry and logic decoded

18-Mar-2015•Andy Zaltzman

Why it pays to be a left-arm quick

They create awkward angles for right-hand batsmen and can use the threat of the incoming delivery, which help keep the batsmen quiet

18-Mar-2015•Aakash Chopra

New Zealand's class of 2008

Four key members of the current squad showed glimpses of what they were capable of in another World Cup, seven years ago

17-Mar-2015•Andrew McGlashan

Taste tests, and snoozin' next to Sanath

Our correspondent displays horrific ignorance about the finer things in life, and begs for a lift to McDonald's

15-Mar-2015•Andrew Fidel Fernando

Parks and recreation

The action on the other side of the fence has been a revelation at all of the New Zealand venues in this World Cup

14-Mar-2015•Will Macpherson

New Zealand read off very different script

A changed XI was not the only difference for New Zealand as they closed out the group stage under rather difficult circumstances

13-Mar-2015•Andrew McGlashan in Hamilton

Superman, then Clark Kent

Plays of the Day from the Group A match between New Zealand and Bangladesh in Hamilton

13-Mar-2015•Andrew McGlashan and Devashish Fuloria

New Zealand make it six in six

13-Mar-2015•ESPNcricinfo staff

Mahmudullah's twin tons, and Taylor's slow fifty

Stats highlights from the New Zealand-Bangladesh match in Hamilton

13-Mar-2015•S Rajesh

Bangladesh 7, New Zealand 3

Though Bangladesh have a favourable recent record against New Zealand, they are still to win an ODI against them outside Bangladesh

12-Mar-2015•Shiva Jayaraman

NZ target emphatic finish to dream first phase

A sickness bug in the camp and the odd niggle is about as troublesome as the World Cup campaign has been for New Zealand so far. Their final match against Bangladesh is about putting a convincing full stop on the long group stage of the tournament

12-Mar-2015•Andrew McGlashan in Hamilton

Poems, paintings make for a Perfect Pitch

The most beguiling attraction in the Waikato Museum in Hamilton is the Perfect Pitch, an exhibition put together to celebrate the history of the Northern Districts Cricket Association

11-Mar-2015•Sharda Ugra in Hamilton

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