that'll do, another reverse swept boundary brings up a crushing victory for New Zealand, Brendon fetched it from leg stump, and didn;t bother to go down on a knee, just twirled his wrists to get the placement right
Kenya vs New Zealand, 2nd Match, Group A at Chennai, Feb 20 2011 - Ball by Ball Commentary
That is all from us for the moment. Don't forget to tune in for the second game of the day, Sri Lanka v Canada at 2.30 pm local time, which is 9.00 am GMT. Hope Canada can put up a better show than Kenya did. This is Abhishek Purohit signing off along with Gopi Rangarajan, and Binoy George. Thanks for the feedback, guys. Cheers!
Brett: "Kamande to Vetorri "So... double or nothing?""
Bennett is Man of the Match: "Been tough for us after the India game. I have been working on the yorker a lot, especially for the Powerplays. Hopefully it won't get much hotter than this for the rest of the tournament. It is pretty tough to get used to."
Vettori: "Wicket had a bit of variable bounce, which our seamers exploited. some big games coming up, good to start like this. With Mills coming back, there might be some changes for the next game. Nathan has done brilliantly as well for us."
Kamande: "Don;t think it was the wicket. It was the areas NZ bowled. We got to be more positive in whatever we do. NZ came very hard at us. We have to learn from this performance today. There are some more games coming up for us."
This game got over in a flash. But you can utilise the time before the next game by checking out our smart phone apps. They are quite a rage.
Have you picked Bennett in your Fantasy team? Try out our fantasy game. The whole world's playing and there are a lot of prizes to be won!
Well, that was a quickie, wasn't it? Less than a third of what a full ODI would be. New Zealand have done themselves no harm at all with a thrashing of Kenya, who were clueless with their batting, unable to combat the New Zealand seamers on a two-paced Chepauk wicket.
Nitin: "Cant imagine this was the same team which went on to semis in 2003 WC."
super stroke, waits for this delivery to arrive, and reverse sweeps it past backward point for another boundary
hammered through midwicket. it was short and he threw his bat at it, there is a man at deep midwicket though
pushed down to mid on off the front foot
now he walks across the stumps, and whips this one through midwicket
was nowhere near the pitch of the ball as he rushed down the track, but went through with the shot anyways, reaching out to get to the ball and lofting it over the bowler for a boundary
gets the bat down in front of pad and plays out a fullish ball to short midwicket
punched back to the bowler off the back foot
pushed in to the gap at cover for a run
whoops, Brendon tried to play that ramp shot over fine leg, got too far across and outside the stumps, and the full delivery crashed in to middle stump, and this happens off a no-ball, what a day for Kenya
dug in short, too short, going over the batsman, what's more, it;s a no-ball as well
tucked away firmly but a diving midwicket keeps them down to a single
full delivery endeavoring to target the stumps, but sprayed down the leg side in the end
punched away off the backfoot wide of mid off
goes on the back foot to solidly defend this delivery turning in from outside off
good delivery, tossed up, turning in, beats the forward push from the batsman, beats the keeper too
played out to short midwicket off the back foot
punched down the ground to mid off, who is ever so slow in getting to the ball, the single becomes a cakewalk
Sravan: "The guys who won the tender for providing lunch at Chepauk are going on a strike claiming refund."
goes on the back foot and works a fuller one past a diving short midwicket
now he goes way down the leg side